Making Your Conference Visit Worthwhile

Regardless of whether you are a student, researcher, or early career faculty member, as long as you are in academia, attending conferences is inevitable. I wrote more than 20 conference publications while I was a graduate student at the University of Colorado Denver and as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. Because I like traveling, conferences never bothered me. But that might not be the opinion you hear from everybody. One general question is, how does one get the most out of a conference? The answers to that question vary The following are some tips that I Ashanthi Maxworth have learned over the years that might help you decide if is it worth attending conferences and how to get the best out of them.