From alexander.wagner at ndsu.edu Thu Mar 10 12:46:33 2011 From: alexander.wagner at ndsu.edu (Alexander Wagner) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:46:33 -0600 Subject: [DSFD-info2011] Update on DSFD conference August 8-12, 2011 in Fargo Message-ID: <4D791C89.5020604@ndsu.edu> Dear supporters of the DSFD conference , I would like to give you a brief update on the state of the conference organization. Yesterday was the deadline for abstract submissions. We had 84 abstracts submitted from 80 different presenters. This includes 20 invited presenters and 60 contributed speakers. This is a very good turnout for presentations, even slightly better than I had hoped for. This is all the more remarkable since the number of local speakers is much lower that at other DSFD conferences. This low number is not surprising, given that the number of university researchers in a 100 mile radius is vastly lower than in Rome or Beijing. We currently have 6 local presentations. However, to showcase NDSU I have lobbied extensively to increase our visibility and I have had some promises for another 4 or 5 local presentations to be submitted shortly. To put this in context let me give you the numbers of the last three DSFD conferences. While we did not reach the all time record set by the DSFD 2010 conference in Rome (132 presentations) we had slightly more contributions than all the other recent conferences. The DSFD 2009 in Beijing had 70 presentations and the DSFD 2008 conference in Florianopolis, Brazil had 76 presentations. This shows that our Fargo conference is on track to be a very competitive DSFD conference and that it is possible to attract a large number of top researchers to visit NDSU. Now that we have received the attention of the research community we are working hard to make sure that they will leave with an excellent impression of Fargo and NDSU. Thank you again for your support, without which we could not organize a successful international conference. Best wishes Alexander Wagner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: alexander_wagner.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 337 bytes Desc: not available URL: