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Dear Dimitrios Stavrakakis,</div>
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Thank you for the notification and support. We plan to offer two awards to HotStorage’26 submissions:</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr;">Award Title 1: Samsung Best Paper Award</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr;">Workshop Name: The 18th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage ’26)</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr;">Award Title 2: FutureWei Best Paper Award</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr;">Workshop Name: The 18th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage ’26)</div>
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We are still in the process of identifying best submissions for the two awards. I’m copying our PC chairs in case they may have any updates in the near future. But in case we could not finalize the submission details by the deadline, is it possible to leave
the field empty on the prints? </div>
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<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Travis Janssen & Mai Zheng,</span></p>
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<b>From: </b>Dimitrios Stavrakakis <dimitrios.stavrakakis@tum.de><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, September 4, 2026 at 4:45 AM<br>
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<b>Cc: </b>workshop@sosp26.cit.tum.de <workshop@sosp26.cit.tum.de><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Important] SOSP'26 Awards for Workshops<br>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Dear SOSP'26 Workshop/Tutorial Organizers,</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">We are in the process of printing the awards for the SOSP'26 main conference.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Therefore, I would like to ask whether you plan to offer awards for any of your submissions.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">If so, please reply to me by Monday, 7 September (hard deadline), at the latest with the submission details, the award title, and the workshop name.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Thank you very much!</p>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
<div>Dimitrios Stavrakakis</div>
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