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Also, your first conference is an exciting moment in your academic career that you'll likely remember for a long time. … out on your own, be independent, feel free to invent yourself as the person you'd like the world to see you as (and, as others have said, make maximal use of the professional opportunity of being at a conference …

Given that the conference is many months in the future, you may consider just telling the organizers that you have not purchased plane tickets yet, and will be unable to provide proof of travel arrangements … your whereabouts at any moment in time other than while you are presenting your paper at their conference). …

Any good advisor will seize on such a conference being held locally as a great (and cheap!) … So make sure to read any guidelines on the conference website before you submit your abstract. …

This is an example of a social norm, which is a kind of large-scale Nash equilibrium. Namely, there is no special justification for why academics benefit from the perk of being able to travel to attra …

Given two conferences you are considering choosing between, I would say look carefully at what topic each conference is about, how close is it to your interests, how good are the networking and learning …

Yes, it is acceptable. I heard a rumor that scientists are human beings. I have not been able to confirm it, but it seems like a plausible assumption, and if you are willing to accept this as a workin …

However, it never hurts to ask; why don’t you email the conference organizers to ask them? … When you submit the paper to a conference you are implicitly promising to come and present the paper if it is accepted, so it would have been more responsible to ask the question before deciding to submit …

My suggestion is that you try to find a conference in an area of math related to the open problem. … They usually select speakers with a proven record of publishing interesting results in the field of the conference. …

There is nothing strange about this. Not everyone is good at translating the very technical problems they are working on, without advance preparation, on demand and at a moment’s notice, into a polish …

one about “generating money losses”, which I think is not really the point, and isn’t something I’d advise you to focus on, although it’s understandable that having incurred great expense to attend the conference … If the conference website, correspondence with the organizers, and other official conference materials led you, and would lead a reasonable person, to believe that your paper will be published in the conference …

Does that make it more probable that: The organizers of Big Name Conference VI are more likely to invite her as a speaker; Yea, obviously a person who develops a reputation for giving great talks is … If that doesn't happen, any submission she makes to Big Name Conference VI is more likely to be accepted? Not in the areas I’m familiar with. …

This sounds like a scam, or possibly a legitimate but low quality conference whose organizers are taking some creative license with their use of the term “plenary speaker” (and probably with other things …

When your paper is published in a journal or conference proceedings, the publisher will adjust the page numbers to suit the location of your paper in the journal or proceedings volume. …

How about trying to arrange to give the talk via Skype? It won't be as good, but for sure sounds preferable to disappointing the organizers and others who may have been hoping to hear what you have to …

It would be absurd and pointless to make you wait until after the conference to submit the journal version of the paper. … Actually I was involved for a few years with the program committee of a large math conference, and encountered a situation where authors submitted a conference version of a paper that has already been …