8:04 p.m.
Dear Nestor,
Given the upcoming early registration deadline and several urgent requests for clarity
from potential attendees we wish to finalise our invitations and our program. However, we
are currently unable to do so as we are lacking clear decisions/guidance on the side of
the DIS organisers, this is leaving us in a quite uncomfortable position and so we
therefore have several questions that need to be answered in order to allow us to complete
our duties.
In particular:
- we need a decision/information with respect to speakers from Russian
or Belorussian institutes, since we have learned that DESY speakers would
be forbidden to participate in case there were any, see here:
https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fparticl...
You certainly have been contacted with respect to that question.
- We did not hear back from you with respect to the "joint session" with WG6,
is it refused? Would this take one session from each of us? ?
For now we have assumed it will not happen but it would make the abstract situation
more straightforward.
- Most urgently, we would like to understand whether online presentations are
accepted or not (ideally without us judging the relevance of their reasons),
and whether we should prioritise in person backup talks instead. It appears we would
have
enough talks that could be given in person to fill the schedule, but some are backups
currently.
We have a growing list of talks for which speakers may not be able to attend and several
which definitely cannot attend, in addition to several backup talks currently accepted as
posters that need addressing as soon as possible (several of the authors have requested
urgent clarity on this). We understand the issues of covid and other factors have
complicated the organisation this year but request that you please help us to solve these
issues rapidly and efficiently.
Best regards,
Klaus, Barak, Tom of WG1