Timeline for Is it worthwhile to give off-topic talks?
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| Dec 16, 2013 at 4:06 | answer | added | Alex Ravsky | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 9, 2013 at 6:14 | comment | added | Deane Yang | In any case, if you go, just give the best talk you can for non-experts, keep an open mind, and try to learn as much as you can, even if it all seems totally foreign. Never pass up an opportunity to learn more math, no matter how unrelated it seems. | |
| Dec 9, 2013 at 5:49 | comment | added | Deane Yang | It seems to me that there is more to the story than this. The organizers of a conference normally invite only people they know, people whose work they know, or people recommended to them by colleagues. If you were invited to a legitimate conference, then the organizers heard about you and your work somehow. Since you're only a graduate student, it shouldn't be hard to figure out how. If in fact it is a legitimate invitation by organizers who did it because they saw a connection between your work and the conference topic, then it shouldn't be hard to learn more about why they believe this. | |
| Dec 7, 2013 at 11:48 | comment | added | Marcus Johnson | Another thing to keep in mind is that travelling to conferences by plane is rather harmful to the environment. | |
| Dec 6, 2013 at 6:05 | comment | added | abz | Whenever I get invited to attend a conference (or contribute to a journal) that isn't relevant to my work, I assume that it's some kind of scam, and delete the message. Why would anyone actually go to such a thing? | |
| Dec 6, 2013 at 4:08 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Dec 6, 2013 at 3:28 | answer | added | Nate Eldredge | timeline score: 54 | |
| Dec 6, 2013 at 3:11 | answer | added | Timothy Chow | timeline score: 42 | |
| Dec 6, 2013 at 0:07 | comment | added | Igor Belegradek | Perhaps, the subject is not that unrelated else why would you get invited? Aside from conferences with huge registration fees whose sole purpose is to rip off the participants, I do not see how a grad student can be invited with no mathematical justification. In any case conferences are worthwhile only when you get something out of it; otherwise, I would stay home. | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 22:56 | answer | added | Joël | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 21:54 | answer | added | Vidit Nanda | timeline score: 15 | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 21:06 | answer | added | An anonymous user | timeline score: 25 | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 20:31 | answer | added | Ben Webster♦ | timeline score: 38 | |
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| Dec 5, 2013 at 19:58 | comment | added | Will Jagy | It's not so much the topic or the audience, it's the person who invited you. | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 19:55 | history | asked | anonymous | CC BY-SA 3.0 |