Timeline for Changes forced by the pandemic
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| May 31, 2021 at 9:07 | comment | added | mlk | @NeilStrickland I actually don't think that the travel budget will be impacted that much. A lot of the equipment is already there. I haven't seen a lecture hall or seminar room without at least one projector in years and a lot of people will at least have tried to redirect their unused 2020 travel budget towards buying a camera and a microphone, which aren't as expensive as they used to be anyway. There will be some extra work involved, but I expect this to be just pushed on someone without a change in budget. The only real cost I can see is paying for streaming software and recording storage. | |
| May 30, 2021 at 14:54 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | @NeilStrickland <cough>Archaeology</cough> | |
| May 28, 2021 at 20:02 | comment | added | Hollis Williams | I hope virtual seminars continue alongside traditional seminars when this is all over (although I am not a huge fan of Zoom). | |
| May 28, 2021 at 16:04 | comment | added | Neil Strickland | @LSpice I'd be interested to see the distribution of attitudes in different institutions. Certainly in my university there is a strong push from the Vice-Chancellor etc that we should learn as many new lessons as possible and "not let a good crisis go to waste". | |
| May 28, 2021 at 15:56 | comment | added | LSpice | (Which is a shame, because our travel budgets never were big and will now be smaller, and it would be great to be able to get some world-class seminar speakers whose travel we can't subsidise. I do feel that the math department has been more open than some to exploring changes, so maybe my pessimistic view can be tempered by restricting it to my department.) | |
| May 28, 2021 at 15:54 | comment | added | LSpice | @NeilStrickland, maybe it's a function of the institution at which you work, but this seems like a very rosy view to me. At least where I am, I feel that the tendency was to stick with in-person-like ways of doing things even when given the opportunity to try to find advantages to working online, and the current push seems to be to forget our online adventures as soon as possible, rather than to mine them for any guidance they might offer. | |
| May 28, 2021 at 10:16 | comment | added | Neil Strickland | So what will happen? Probably everyone will ensure that their seminar rooms have good cameras and microphones and (perhaps multiple) projectors. All seminars will be streamed and recorded. Live audiences will be smaller but nonzero. Virtual audiences for the best seminars will be larger. Speakers will be invited to visit in person; some will choose to do that, but others will present by video, which will be projected in the seminar room. Very few people will travel to seminars that are not at their home institution. Travel budgets will be partly redirected to equipment. Anything else? | |
| May 28, 2021 at 10:16 | comment | added | Dirk | Well, I don't (most of the time…). Our university provides self-hosted BigBlueButton conference rooms which I find very nice (tbh, superior to Zoom…). But in general, I wanted to keep technology out of the answer - it changes fast and I expect that technical solutions will be quite different in a few years from now. | |
| May 28, 2021 at 9:40 | comment | added | Joseph Van Name | And now everyone is using Zoom which appeared out of nowhere and originally had very bad security issues. | |
| S May 28, 2021 at 9:29 | history | answered | Dirk | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
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