This event will be hybrid and will take place in L1 and on Teams. A link will be available 30 minutes before the session begins.
`Conferences and collaboration’ is a Fridays@4 group discussion. The goal is to have an open and honest conversion about the hurdles posed by these things, led by a panel of graduate students and postdocs. Conferences can be both exciting and stressful - they involve meeting new people and learning new mathematics, but can be intimidating new professional experiences. Many of us also will either have never been to one in person, or at least not been to one in the past two years. Optimistically looking towards the world opening up again, we thought it would be a good time to ask questions such as:
-Which talks should I go to?
-How to cope with incomprehensible talks. Is it imposter syndrome or is the speaker just bad?
-Should I/how should I go about introducing myself to more senior people in the field?
-How do you start collaborations? Does it happen at conferences or elsewhere?
-How do you approach workload in collaborations?
-What happens if a collaboration isn’t working out?
-FOMO if you like working by yourself. Over the hour we’ll have a conversation about these hurdles and most importantly, talk about how we can make conferences and collaborations better for everyone early in their careers.