Timeline for Acceptability of "Changes forced by the pandemic"
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| May 29, 2021 at 14:00 | comment | added | André Henriques | @MattF. Math conferences have longer talks (60min), often delivered on blackboards, where the authors not only present their results, but also explain some of their proofs. By contrast, non-math conferences have much shorter presentations (20min), always powerpoint, which often happen in parallel: so the people presenting are competing for the attention of the audience. Most importantly, the time between talks is a time when new math can be created. This is very different from other disciplines, where the creation of new scientific knowledge is dependent on running an experiment in a lab. | |
| May 29, 2021 at 12:31 | comment | added | user44143 | @AndréHenriques, how are research conferences in math structured differently from research conferences in other areas? | |
| May 28, 2021 at 14:43 | comment | added | André Henriques | I agree with you that a similar question could be asked for other areas of academia. But mathematics does not work in the same way as other science disciplines. (I suspect that the ways in which the pandemic has disrupted the life of a chemist are rather different from the way it has disrupted the lives of research mathematicians.) Also, research conferences in math are structured very differently from research conferences in other areas. I'm interested about what mathematicians, specifically, have to say about this. | |
| May 28, 2021 at 10:59 | history | edited | Federico Poloni | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 28, 2021 at 10:37 | history | answered | Federico Poloni | CC BY-SA 4.0 |