As conference season looms on the horizon, you, like most academics around the world, are probably procrastinating on the task of writing a conference paper. In theory, every paper that you give at an ...

One of the most useful sessions at last week's DAMOP meeting (for me, anyway) was the invited session on "Turning Physics Students Into Physicists". This was organized by the APS Forum on Education, ...

When it comes to academic conferences, it seems most of us belong to one of two groups. The first is the research poster group, which has conversations with other scholars with the help of a visual ...

A lively lecture full of insight, wit and passion for a subject can linger long in the memory. So, too, can a truly awful presentation. Having watched her fair share of terrible academic talks, as ...

Carey, Ray (2014) Toward a methodology of chunking: applications and extensions of Linear Unit Grammar. Paper presented at ICAME 35 (Intl. Computer Archive of Modern & Medieval English), University of ...

It’s conference season, and that means we will soon be suffering together in some drab meeting room. The minutes will tick by as an earnest scholar reads — word for excruciating word — a jargon-filled ...

Academic conferences must be the oldest scam in South African universities. A conference is supposed to be an assembly where two things happen: you present groundbreaking research on a topic for your ...