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An academic gathering for researchers, scientists, engineers, etc. to present and discuss their work and mutual academic interests.

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What must one do if the time at which a conference talk was to be presented is assigned to s...

Now that you've identified the conference as the AMS Western Section meeting in San Francisco, I looked at the conference's program web site and your talk is definitely listed. …
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Reviewers decision: Summary rejects typically do not receive technical feedback

They have concluded that the paper is clearly not suitable for publication in this journal / conference, and so they are rejecting it without a full review. … Some possible reasons: The work is on a topic not covered by the conference The importance or interest of the result is much less than what the conference normally expects The work has major obvious …
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Can a paper be presented by two presenters in a conference

I've occasionally seen a situation where, in a conference session divided into short talks (say 20 minutes), two co-authors will speak back-to-back on the same paper (though each focuses on different aspects …
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Is it appropriate to register a girlfriend with "companion registration" for an academic con...

get a badge to attend the conference. … wants to be able to meet you inside the conference venue during breaks, meals, etc. …
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How to determine if the presenter will attend as a session chair

I think you are misunderstanding the instructions. Let's say a presenter is scheduled to begin their talk at 11:00. If they are not there at 11:00, they have failed to attend, for the purposes of th …
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What should be included on the title page of a conference presentation

I usually include: Title of talk Name of presenter (me) Names of coauthors Date Name of conference Title of conference session (if applicable) City of conference My institution's name Maybe my institution's …
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Can one give a conference talk on a topic already published in a journal?

However, if the conference publishes proceedings (only a few math conferences do), you should not publish the same paper in the proceedings. … In other fields, where a conference talk is considered to be like a publication it its own right, this might not be acceptable. …
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Can I bring a spouse along for a conference?

One thing to note is that unscheduled time during conferences (meal times, evenings, weekends, days off, etc) is commonly used by participants for networking, social events, informal scientific discus …
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Assigning presenters the role of a session chair without prior notice

Or they may be planning to ask you before the actual conference, but they put some names in the program tentatively, and it was published before they had a chance to contact you. …
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As a non-researcher, how to tell new knowledge that the speaker might not know?

It's perfectly fine to use the question period to alert the speaker to other related work. As with any question, try to keep it brief: one or two sentences. I agree that a "couple minutes" is too lo …
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How good of a conference can I realistically submit my first paper to? How can I figure out ...

Eventually you get a general sense of how "good" a paper should be in order to be published in this conference, and you compare it with your evaluation of your own paper's quality. …
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Should co-author mention you in talk-abstract

Hey, I saw your abstract for conference XXX. It looks like a very nice venue to discuss our work. … One thing: it looks from the other abstracts like this conference follows the usual convention of mentioning coauthors in the abstract ("this is joint work with...") and it looks like this is missing from …
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Would it be ethical to resubmit a research paper to a different conference, when the origina...

At this point, I think you need to get in touch with publisher X directly and ask them what's going on with this conference. … Maybe this was another instance of the conference misusing X's name and they know nothing about it. …
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What does "contributed paper session" mean?

The criteria for approval are usually not selective and mostly just involve a check that your topic is appropriate for the session / conference. … If I am not the only author of the paper, but I am the only speaker at the conference, should I list only myself as the author of the abstract? …
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Is it okay to put up a submitted paper and a paper which is about to be submitted on Academi...

For your submitted paper: Check the copyright and "prior publication" policies of the conference you've submitted to. … For your not-yet-submitted paper: Again, there shouldn't be a problem with the journal/conference, but it's probably best to wait to make it public until it is completely finished and ready to submit. …
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