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2006/8/14-16 [Health/Disease/AIDS] UID:43993 Activity:nil 70%like:43992
8/14    How do big scientific conferences work?  The media often mentions
        conferences to talk about AIDS / famine / gravity waves / whatever
        that involve hundreds or even thousands of scientists.  How does
        someone get a chance to say anything?
        \_ Don't know how it is in other fields, but at the American Physical
           Society march meeting, which happens every year, there are roughly
           40 parallel sessions 8 hours a day, for five days, with most talks
           limited to 10 minutes with two minutes for questions.  There are
           also pretty huge poster sessions.  Everyone, and I mean *everyone*
           gets a chance to say something.  It's getting someone to listen
           that's the trick.  But it's not quite as crazy as it sounds.  The
           aps has software on their website that lets you hunt for talks
           of interest and generate a schedule for you for the week, although
           missing a talk because there's another interesting one at the same
           time is inevitable.  Conferences of this scale generally suck, as
           far as talks go, and exist mostly for networking and informal
           discussions after the talks.
           \_ Sounds similar to my experience at American Association of
              Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
              \- The programs for some of these are +1cm thick. Yes, "massive
                 parallization".
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