Hi, many of you on this list have contacted us at Oxford in the last few months about the arrangements for the bi-annual TSM Symposium in 2009. We have been a bit coy about committing ourselves to this event for a number of reasons, not least that Sheelagh, the driving force behind the previous Symposia, has retired. Additionally, we can no longer so easily rely on the local administrative support that was offered in the past and that forms a major part of putting on the event. This means that the administrative and logistical demands will be too high on our small team (even with the in-house experience we now have) and we therefore have to announce, with considerable regret, that we will not be able to host the TSM Symposium next year.
However, we have been in discussion with other educational establishments regarding this and the happy result is that Claus Kalle at the Computing Centre at the University of Cologne ( aka the RRZK - Regionales Rechenzentrum Koln ) Germany has agreed to host the event in Sept 2009. More precise details are not yet available but we wanted to inform you as soon as possible of at least the probable future existence of the event so that you yourselves can pencil in appropriate plans. We'd like to take the opportunity of thanking Claus for taking on this task, as well as Kirsten Gloeer at the University of Heidelberg for her help and cooperation. I'll leave Claus to make formal, further announcements, when he has them. We at Oxford hope that we can offer him and his team as much assistance as possible and I'm sure many of you will join us in contributing to a really first-class event. Finally, just to be clear, we also hope to stage the event again in the future - but just not in 2009. Regards Ian Smith & the TSM team at Oxford, England
