Research at conferences
May. 13th, 2008 03:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scottahillSo my talk went pretty well. It was a small audience (4 people) as I expected, but it was well-received. I even had someone come up to me this afternoon and ask me for the gist, since he'd missed the talk earlier. Pretty cool. I'm hoping to show the results to Bar-Yam when he comes, some time before his scheduled talk on Wednesday (although there's something I have to prepare myself for: it is entirely natural, when presenting research to someone who knows the background, for that person to look for weaknesses and whatnot, just as part of the scientific process. I'm not sure I'm immune to the criticism.)
Although I didn't have to work on my talk this afternoon, I did find myself working on a queueing simulation, instead of listening to some talks. Conferences always inspire me to start new research projects, and not even necessarily in any field being discussed. I think it's because conferences are the only time I allow myself to be all about research. Outside, I only do research in bits and pieces, and don't give myself the time to think of new things to do. SO when I get here, it gets released and I want to do this work, when it would be more appropriate to network and talk with people and listen to talks and save the work for later. If I want to be a physicist full-time, I need to give more time and respect to the research side of my career than I do now.
Although I didn't have to work on my talk this afternoon, I did find myself working on a queueing simulation, instead of listening to some talks. Conferences always inspire me to start new research projects, and not even necessarily in any field being discussed. I think it's because conferences are the only time I allow myself to be all about research. Outside, I only do research in bits and pieces, and don't give myself the time to think of new things to do. SO when I get here, it gets released and I want to do this work, when it would be more appropriate to network and talk with people and listen to talks and save the work for later. If I want to be a physicist full-time, I need to give more time and respect to the research side of my career than I do now.
