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Dear Dimitrios, </div>
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Thank you! I picked up the certificates in the morning, and the authors were handed their certificates during this current session. Thank you.</div>
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-Bryan</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Dimitrios Stavrakakis <dimitrios.stavrakakis@tum.de><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 29, 2026 08:48<br>
<b>To:</b> Bryan S. Kim <bkim01@syr.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> generalchairs26@hotstorage.org <generalchairs26@hotstorage.org>; pcchairs26@hotstorage.org <pcchairs26@hotstorage.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Important] SOSP'26 Awards for Workshops</font>
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<div>Dear Bryan, <br>
I have your certificates at the end of the reception booth if you want to pick them up.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Dimitris
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 28, 2026 1:25:32 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bryan S. Kim<br>
<b>Cc:</b> generalchairs26@hotstorage.org; pcchairs26@hotstorage.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Important] SOSP'26 Awards for Workshops</font>
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<div class="x_PlainText">Dear Bryan,<br>
<br>
I am now trying to coordinate so that I can get them and hand over them to you.<br>
It should be possible to get them early in the morning tomorrow. If anything changes, I'll keep you posted.<br>
<br>
Regarding the posters, I think the boards should be set by 11am on Tuesday. So any time after this, they can be arranged.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Dimitrios<br>
________________________________<br>
From: Bryan S. Kim <bkim01@syr.edu><br>
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2026 10:36:07 PM<br>
To: Dimitrios Stavrakakis<br>
Cc: generalchairs26@hotstorage.org; pcchairs26@hotstorage.org<br>
Subject: Re: [Important] SOSP'26 Awards for Workshops<br>
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Dear Dimitrios,<br>
<br>
Okay. In that case, we will announce the best papers on Monday, but do the award ceremony on Tuesday. Would it be possible to get them before 10:30am on Tuesday, for example, during the either the 8-8:30am registration or 10-10:30am coffee break?<br>
<br>
Also, we also should give a heads-up to the workshop poster presenters about when, how, and where to setup the posters. The 10-10:30am coffee break on Tuesday sounds like a good time for people to set them up - is this what you had in mind?<br>
<br>
Thank, and we look forward to great successes for all the SOSP workshops.<br>
<br>
-Bryan<br>
________________________________<br>
From: Dimitrios Stavrakakis <dimitrios.stavrakakis@tum.de><br>
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2026 10:05<br>
To: Bryan S. Kim <bkim01@syr.edu><br>
Cc: generalchairs26@hotstorage.org <generalchairs26@hotstorage.org>; pcchairs26@hotstorage.org <pcchairs26@hotstorage.org><br>
Subject: Re: [Important] SOSP'26 Awards for Workshops<br>
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Dear Bryan,<br>
The plan is that I receive the certificates on Tuesday because I'll arrive in Prague late on Monday.<br>
So i can only hand them over on this day.<br>
<br>
I hope it doesn't create any major issues.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Dimitrios<br>
________________________________<br>
From: Bryan S. Kim <bkim01@syr.edu><br>
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2026 6:25:53 PM<br>
To: Dimitrios Stavrakakis<br>
Cc: generalchairs26@hotstorage.org; pcchairs26@hotstorage.org<br>
Subject: Re: [Important] SOSP'26 Awards for Workshops<br>
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Dear Dimitrios,<br>
<br>
Thanks again for coordinating with us for the best paper award certificates.<br>
<br>
By any chance, would you happen to know when they will be available? We will announce the best papers on the first day of our workshop (Monday), but we understand if the certificates will be available on Tuesday.<br>
<br>
Thank you.<br>
-Bryan<br>
________________________________<br>
From: Bryan S. Kim <bkim01@syr.edu><br>
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2026 07:19<br>
To: Dimitrios Stavrakakis <dimitrios.stavrakakis@tum.de><br>
Cc: generalchairs26@hotstorage.org <generalchairs26@hotstorage.org>; pcchairs26@hotstorage.org <pcchairs26@hotstorage.org><br>
Subject: Re: [Important] SOSP'26 Awards for Workshops<br>
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Dear Dimitrios,<br>
Great! Thank you so much!<br>
-Bryan<br>
________________________________<br>
From: Dimitrios Stavrakakis <dimitrios.stavrakakis@tum.de><br>
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2026 05:04<br>
To: Bryan S. Kim <bkim01@syr.edu><br>
Cc: generalchairs26@hotstorage.org <generalchairs26@hotstorage.org>; pcchairs26@hotstorage.org <pcchairs26@hotstorage.org><br>
Subject: Re: [Important] SOSP'26 Awards for Workshops<br>
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Dear Bryan,<br>
<br>
I asked, and I think the certificates are not printed yet, so I requested that they print the award title and names directly.<br>
I am still waiting for a confirmation.<br>
<br>
Once I get it, I will let you know.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Dimitrios<br>
________________________________<br>
From: Dimitrios Stavrakakis<br>
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2026 2:50:46 PM<br>
To: Bryan S. Kim<br>
Cc: generalchairs26@hotstorage.org; pcchairs26@hotstorage.org<br>
Subject: Re: [Important] SOSP'26 Awards for Workshops<br>
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Dear Bryan,<br>
<br>
I am also waiting to check them once printed but I can ask for the layout so that you know the dimensions.<br>
I will try to do it today itself and let you know.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Dimitrios<br>
________________________________<br>
From: Bryan S. Kim <bkim01@syr.edu><br>
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2026 2:46:09 PM<br>
To: Dimitrios Stavrakakis<br>
Cc: generalchairs26@hotstorage.org; pcchairs26@hotstorage.org<br>
Subject: Re: [Important] SOSP'26 Awards for Workshops<br>
<br>
Dear Dimitrios,<br>
<br>
No worries, we understand.<br>
<br>
By any chance, would you happen to know the layout of the certificate? We are thinking of printing the titles/names on adhesive transparent sheets.<br>
<br>
If not, again, no worries. Thanks, and I hope to see you at SOSP.<br>
-Bryan<br>
________________________________<br>
From: Dimitrios Stavrakakis <dimitrios.stavrakakis@tum.de><br>
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2026 18:58<br>
To: Bryan S. Kim <bkim01@syr.edu><br>
Cc: generalchairs26@hotstorage.org <generalchairs26@hotstorage.org>; pcchairs26@hotstorage.org <pcchairs26@hotstorage.org><br>
Subject: Re: [Important] SOSP'26 Awards for Workshops<br>
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Dear Bryan,<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, I have already sent out the request to print the blank certificates.<br>
I think it might complicate things if I changed the request now, since I think they'd have done that last week.<br>
<br>
I hope it does not create big issues for you.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Dimitrios<br>
________________________________<br>
From: Bryan S. Kim <bkim01@syr.edu><br>
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2026 2:51:58 AM<br>
To: Dimitrios Stavrakakis<br>
Cc: generalchairs26@hotstorage.org; pcchairs26@hotstorage.org<br>
Subject: Re: [Important] SOSP'26 Awards for Workshops<br>
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Dear Dimitrios,<br>
<br>
Thank you for providing us with certificates for the best papers. It is past the Sep. 7 hard deadline, but we finalized the two best papers. If they could be printed (instead of blanks), that would be great.<br>
<br>
<br>
*<br>
Award Title 1: Samsung Best Paper Award<br>
*<br>
Workshop Name: The 18th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage ’26)<br>
*<br>
Paper title: User Space Buffer Cache with the Bells and Whistles of a Kernel Page Cache<br>
*<br>
Authors: Riwei Pan (Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong); Yu Liang (Inria Paris); Sam H. Noh (Virginia Tech); Lei Li, Nan Guan (City University of Hong Kong); Tei-Wei Kuo (Delta Electronics and National Taiwan University); Chun Jason
Xue (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI))<br>
<br>
<br>
*<br>
Award Title 2: FutureWei Best Paper Award<br>
*<br>
Workshop Name: The 18th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage ’26)<br>
*<br>
Paper title: Token Write Amplification in LLM-Mediated State Stores<br>
*<br>
Authors: Shijun Yang, Shuheng Gao, Chaomei Yan, Guoli Wei, Yongkun Li (University of Science and Technology of China)<br>
<br>
Thank you.<br>
-Bryan S. Kim, HotStorage'26 program co-chair<br>
<br>
<br>
________________________________<br>
From: Hotstorage-chairs <hotstorage-chairs-bounces@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> on behalf of Dimitrios Stavrakakis via Hotstorage-chairs <hotstorage-chairs@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu><br>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 17:36<br>
To: Zheng, Mai [E CPE] <mai@iastate.edu><br>
Cc: generalchairs26@hotstorage.org <generalchairs26@hotstorage.org>; pcchairs26@hotstorage.org <pcchairs26@hotstorage.org><br>
Subject: Re: [Hotstorage-chairs] [Important] SOSP'26 Awards for Workshops<br>
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Dear Mai and Travis,<br>
<br>
yes, we can prepare blank certificates which you can fill on the spot.<br>
If anything changes, I will let you know.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Dimitrios<br>
________________________________<br>
From: Zheng, Mai [E CPE] <mai@iastate.edu><br>
Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2026 8:09:37 PM<br>
To: Dimitrios Stavrakakis<br>
Cc: pcchairs26@hotstorage.org; generalchairs26@hotstorage.org<br>
Subject: Re: [Important] SOSP'26 Awards for Workshops<br>
<br>
Dear Dimitrios Stavrakakis,<br>
<br>
Thank you for the notification and support. We plan to offer two awards to HotStorage’26 submissions:<br>
<br>
<br>
*<br>
Award Title 1: Samsung Best Paper Award<br>
*<br>
Workshop Name: The 18th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage ’26)<br>
<br>
<br>
*<br>
Award Title 2: FutureWei Best Paper Award<br>
*<br>
Workshop Name: The 18th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage ’26)<br>
<br>
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?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Travis Janssen & Mai Zheng,<br>
-HotStorage’26 General Chairs<br>
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From: Dimitrios Stavrakakis <dimitrios.stavrakakis@tum.de><br>
Date: Friday, September 4, 2026 at 4:45 AM<br>
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Subject: [Important] SOSP'26 Awards for Workshops<br>
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Dear SOSP'26 Workshop/Tutorial Organizers,<br>
<br>
We are in the process of printing the awards for the SOSP'26 main conference.<br>
Therefore, I would like to ask whether you plan to offer awards for any of your submissions.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Thank you very much!<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Dimitrios Stavrakakis<br>
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