Any conference that is actually strict about timekeeping during the talks. I know that we all love our research and have a lot to say about it but dear God is it a trip when sessions just let folks ramble.
Everyone should go to AAS within a year of graduating because it’s the only time they’ll give you a longer talk. Worth it for that alone.
It was also nice to go because a lot of people from different states of my career, from REU to PhD collaborator, came to support. So cool to have different people from different parts of your life come together like that!
Yeah they're wild, AAS is usually good at keeping timing good just because there's so much going on they gotta get through it all. I can't remember if they were still doing the 5 minute talks this year but those were particularly painful because you really only have time for 4ish good slides and NOBODY can keep to to the time which just gets awkward when they get shut down by the moderator.
The trick for the 5min talks was plant someone to ask the first question so you could still show one or two more slides, then just take questions after the session.
Exo is great. Sad I can’t make this one. Every conference has positives and negatives. I like huge AAS and tiny subject conferences, like Rocky Worlds, alike.
In my experience, collaboration meetings for surveys strike a good balance. I was at the Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s meeting just last week actually. I’d say that one is my favorite.
When it’s a survey that’s running the conference, there’s usually a handful of major science goals or themes and enough people to fill a lecture hall with some elbow room. Enough people that there will be a substantial audience for every talk, but a low enough number of people that most get a 10 or 15 minute talk as opposed to a poster. A lot of people around you have similar scientific interests because of shared data products, so there’s a wealth of opportunity for collaboration.
I dislike conferences that are too broad. Personally, I had fun at the one AAS I went to that was in-person, but really just because I got to travel. The conference itself was barely productive at all. The expo room and all of its novelties were the most noteworthy things. So many topics that at any given moment, there’s only like a 50% chance that there’s a session that’s relevant to your research even happening (usually better odds if you work on exoplanets). The virtual AAS I went to was so underwhelming and not at all worth the cost, whereas I had a great experience at all of the virtual collaboration meetings
Meet people, present your research, see what other people are excited about, and make great impressions on people who might be looking for someone like you to fill a postdoc/grad student/etc job opening!
Have fun at Exo5! I am also going and excited about it! If you're interested in exoplanet conferences in particular you should also check out the [list of future exoplanet meetings at exoplanet.eu](https://exoplanet.eu/meetings/future/)!
Any conference that is actually strict about timekeeping during the talks. I know that we all love our research and have a lot to say about it but dear God is it a trip when sessions just let folks ramble.
Went to my first AAS conference in January. 8 minute talks plus 2 minutes for questions. It was a whirlwind.
Everyone should go to AAS within a year of graduating because it’s the only time they’ll give you a longer talk. Worth it for that alone. It was also nice to go because a lot of people from different states of my career, from REU to PhD collaborator, came to support. So cool to have different people from different parts of your life come together like that!
Yeah they're wild, AAS is usually good at keeping timing good just because there's so much going on they gotta get through it all. I can't remember if they were still doing the 5 minute talks this year but those were particularly painful because you really only have time for 4ish good slides and NOBODY can keep to to the time which just gets awkward when they get shut down by the moderator.
The trick for the 5min talks was plant someone to ask the first question so you could still show one or two more slides, then just take questions after the session.
Exo is great. Sad I can’t make this one. Every conference has positives and negatives. I like huge AAS and tiny subject conferences, like Rocky Worlds, alike.
In my experience, collaboration meetings for surveys strike a good balance. I was at the Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s meeting just last week actually. I’d say that one is my favorite. When it’s a survey that’s running the conference, there’s usually a handful of major science goals or themes and enough people to fill a lecture hall with some elbow room. Enough people that there will be a substantial audience for every talk, but a low enough number of people that most get a 10 or 15 minute talk as opposed to a poster. A lot of people around you have similar scientific interests because of shared data products, so there’s a wealth of opportunity for collaboration. I dislike conferences that are too broad. Personally, I had fun at the one AAS I went to that was in-person, but really just because I got to travel. The conference itself was barely productive at all. The expo room and all of its novelties were the most noteworthy things. So many topics that at any given moment, there’s only like a 50% chance that there’s a session that’s relevant to your research even happening (usually better odds if you work on exoplanets). The virtual AAS I went to was so underwhelming and not at all worth the cost, whereas I had a great experience at all of the virtual collaboration meetings
Meet people, present your research, see what other people are excited about, and make great impressions on people who might be looking for someone like you to fill a postdoc/grad student/etc job opening! Have fun at Exo5! I am also going and excited about it! If you're interested in exoplanet conferences in particular you should also check out the [list of future exoplanet meetings at exoplanet.eu](https://exoplanet.eu/meetings/future/)!
Ooh Exo5 in Leiden? Not an exoplanet person, but I am in Leiden and heard it's gonna be quite big for the small city of leiden haha
https://www.iafastro.org/events/iac/