OOPS, I sent the email to the entire APPS RG group by mistake. Sorry about that folks (so now everyone knows but must pretend not to know the reason of my absense at GGF15...) See you all in Athens. Satoshi On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:26:42 +0900 Satoshi Matsuoka <matsu@is.titech.ac.jp> wrote: matsu> matsu> Thilo, matsu> matsu> Because of my prior committments to do the EU FP6 reviews in Brussels, matsu> no matter how I conjur up my schedule, it turns out now that it is matsu> impossible for me to attend GGF15 at the same time. I may be able to matsu> phone in to the GFSG meeting, and that is it. How sad. matsu> matsu> As such, do you plan to attend GGF, and assume the responsibilities of matsu> the research apps area AD? We could communicate pretty tightly over matsu> email and phone during GGF, I suppose; it is just that I am unable to be matsu> physically present there without a Condord. matsu> matsu> I am very sorry to lose the first opportunity to directly work with you matsu> in Boston; well, there is GGF16/17 on our respective home turfs, so... matsu> matsu> Satoshi matsu> Satoshi Matsuoka, Professor Global Scientific Information and Computing Center & Dept. of Mathematical and Computing Sciences Tokyo Institute of Technology Address: 2-12-1 Oo-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552 Japan Tel&fax: +81-3-5734-3876 E-mail: matsu@acm.org, matsu@is.titech.ac.jp