This is part 4 of my blog series aiming to start discussion about the problems of how typical academic conferences are run, and my experiences with them as a PhD student. Previous parts covered presentations, socialising and poster sessions. The traditional academic … Continue reading
Most academic conferences have poster sessions but rarely are they worthwhile. There is a huge time investment with not much pay-off, with the end goal to achieve things that could be much easily done in different and more efficient ways. Not to … Continue reading
I’m not exactly a film buff but I’ve always been slightly annoyed by the standard metric for how successful a film is, which is through comparing box office takings resulting in a list like this. Because of currency inflation these … Continue reading
Welcome to the second part of my series of blog posts about the problems with the standard academic conference format. For part 1 about conference presentations see here and also part 3 about poster sessions and part 4 about value for money. One thing … Continue reading
OK, let me start this by saying that I’m a PhD student in Condensed Matter Physics. I’ve been lucky to attend a lot of conferences (9 as of writing) during my PhD and it’s taken me a long time to … Continue reading
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