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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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