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APS: standing room only

One of the challenges at any large conference is being in the right room at the right time - and then hoping that you can find a seat near the back in case the talk is not all it could be. It also helps if the speakers turn up - flu, problems with connecting flights and "a meeting in Washington" were three of the excuses on offer in Baltimore.

And one of the challenges for the organizers of any large conference is putting the right talk in the right room. Occasionally a speaker will find themselves speaking to a handful of people in a large hall, while, somewhere along the corridor, a 100 people might be trying to squeeze into a room with 64 chairs. A senior APS figure was overheard to speculate in Baltimore that the reason that some sessions were oversubscribed was because they were highlighted on the Nature site!

Posted on behalf of: Peter Rodgers, Nature Nanotechnology

Posted by Nicola Jones on March 21, 2006 10:53 AM |

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