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This may very well depend on the conference in question, the field, etc. …

CS and related fields very heavily weight conference presentations and proceedings papers in ways the life sciences really don't. … Those departments will also probably recognize your technical chops either via talking to you, the technical bent of your publications, or a few conference presentations. …

This will really, really depend on the field you're coming from - or even the sub-field. Take two examples: Mathematical epidemiology: If I present a paper with a nice infectious disease model, with …

Writing as a mathematical modeler in Epidemiology, and a regular submitter to conferences with these types of requirements, which are dominated by empirical research findings, this is something that's …

It will depend very much on your field, and even the conference. … As JeffE mentioned, some CS conferences will expressly forbid papers that are already published, because the conference is meant to disseminate new work. …

It's very common for there to be recruiting events, tables, or the occasional pitch during a conference. … If a conference sponsorship keeps that going, it's probably worth it as essentially an R&D expense. …

This is profoundly field dependent, and even within what could be considered the same field, may vary based on individuals and the slant of the conference. … For example, in conferences I regularly attend: At a computational conference, half the attendees were wearing the conference t-shirt. …

I have never encountered any problem with it, nor has it been particularly rare (one conference I went to, by virtue of being in Disney World, I suspect featured more people with their family than without … with the actual purpose of the conference. …

For example, building off a colleague of mine's recent work: Both Netsci '18 and the SIAM Network Science conference are likely good general conferences But so is the Ecological Society of America for …

If you are in the United States, phdposters.com has local pickup in Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Denver, Durham, Richmond and San Francisco, usually in a university library. Their rates are also prett …

Both the Society for Epidemiological Research and IDWeek have had phone apps that interact with calendar apps to help you build schedules, find local restaurants, etc. I'm not sure who developed them …

This depends very much on the conference in question. … So check the conference, and ask your advisor about the norms in your field. …

Trying to rank every submission to a conference would be a massive effort, and is still somewhat arbitrary, as your ranking scheme is not inherently an objective one. … You should take into account the nature of the conference itself - for example, there are some conferences where I am considerably more lenient than I am for others, the same way there are journals where …

The only reason I can think of to include a outright recommendation the authors can see is if the "feel" of my comments and the decision don't necessarily align naturally. For example, if I've issued …

This one, ironically, is probably the closest to your experience, and arguably was a CS conference, even though I'm not in CS. … One has a chronic problem with this, because the session they're recruiting for (its a big enough conference that there are multiple sessions each with their own abstract committees) is a lot of work without …