(sent: March 31, 2004) Dear Colleagues - participants of W04 Workshop on: Large Scale Nonlinear and Semidefinite Programming (in memory of Jos Sturm) This email is to all the participants/speakers. The latest schedule is at: http://orion.math.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/w04workshop.d/wphotos.d/preschd.html linked from the workshop web page at: http://orion.math.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/w04workshop.d/readme.html *** As noted on the schedule, there will be a poster session held throughout the four days of the short course and the workshop. If you are presenting a poster, please send me your title/abstract ASAP. *** The first day, Wed. May 12, is for the shortcourses on SDP. If you are interested in attending, then ***PLEASE*** send in your request and register for this separately from the workshop. We have received too many excellent contributed talks and do not have enough slots for everyone. If you are on the list of speakers, then please tell us ASAP if you cannot attend. If you are not on the list, then we hope that you will still attend. Please tell us if you would like to join the poster session. *** Our budget includes breakfast/lunch/banquet for all participants. PLEASE tell us if: you will **NOT** attend, or are leaving early, or NOT attending the banquet (so that we can budget accordingly). *** Regarding REIMBURSEMENT for speakers: We will have a form available at registration. We will need receipts after all, i.e. plane receipts, boarding passes, etc...