How do i tell the organizers that i won't be attending a conference if the only reason is that we don't have any ground-breaking new results and so my supervisor feels that it is a waste of money and time to go?
The conference is spie opto, and by submitting an abstract you supposedly agree to attend... My abstract got accepted.... However my supervisor thinks we can just "ignore" the event, that is we wont submit a paper or attend. the manuscript deadline has passed already, the conference is end of january. is there a correct procedure how i could slip out of this? what should i tell the organizers?