Let’s add here, that most of the scientists treat conferences as a form of vacation funded by academia or grant money. So there is a strong bias to find reasons for their necessity and/or benefits.
Let’s add here, that most of the scientists treat conferences as a form of vacation funded by academia or grant money.
That has not been my experience. Visiting foreign parts is icing on the cake, but no more than that. There may be a few exceptions, such as a large conference that a colleague of mine once went to in Hawaii. I heard that the lecture theatres were thinly attended.
Let’s add here, that most of the scientists treat conferences as a form of vacation funded by academia or grant money. So there is a strong bias to find reasons for their necessity and/or benefits.
Hi, you have no possible way to know this.
That has not been my experience. Visiting foreign parts is icing on the cake, but no more than that. There may be a few exceptions, such as a large conference that a colleague of mine once went to in Hawaii. I heard that the lecture theatres were thinly attended.