Dear friends, So here we go - looks like the list of participants of our little workshop is not only more or less complete, it also looks like it will be lots of fun. The website is online, have a look at the link from www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~plehn. May I introduce the two local co-organizers of the workshop: Steffen Schumann and Kentarou Mawatari kindly volunteered to help with questions of any kind. There are also still a few people listed as TBC or not even listed at all, even though they are on this email list. It would be great if you could at some point tell me what I can do to convince you to come here. On the site you can see the program, except that we did not yet assign spots and speakers to the topics listed. If you have any additional suggestions concerning topics for talks or discussions please email them to us. I hope the comments on travel will allow you to get here without any trouble, direct flights to Frankfurt are probably the best option for most of you. Maybe you could let us know when you will arrive, so we can start worrying appropriately? The last issue is accomodation - we are working on it and you will hear from us before Christmas. You might or might not have to book something on some websites, but we'll try to make it as easy as we can. There is a very limited number of rooms and small apartments in the IWH, so if you are going to arrive on Sunday and you would like to stay in these really nice and convenient rooms please let us know, first come first serve. I guess that should be it. Thank you for your support, alaaf! Mihoko, Tilman, Tim and John