Chapter 320 The Role of Academic Conferences

Now that he has decided to attend this first academic conference in his life, Wu Bin naturally plans to make full preparations.

Brother Xiao Zhengrui, who often flies around with Academician Chen Xianhui, has more experience in this area.

So Wu Bin went to the office to find him early the next morning.

"Academic conference? You asked the right person about this, haha. In fact, I was very nervous when I followed the professor to attend the lecture for the first time. In fact, there was no need for it." Xiao Zhengrui suddenly sighed: "Because of you You will soon realize that no one is paying attention to you at all..."

Shaking his head, Xiao Zhengrui continued: "Anyway, what you have to do is to read the relevant research literature of interest in advance, and then choose the lectures and schedules you most want to hear based on the abstracts of the conferences. You should have it, right?"

"Yes, yes."

After eating that day, Wu Bin received the specific schedule of the academic meeting that day, which included the time and location of all academic reports.

"OK, the rest is actually socializing. For those big names in the same field, academic exchange meetings with fixed themes are like the Chinese New Year. Many people will participate with the feeling of visiting old friends. As for students, Then of course you have to ask for advice, and you can seize the opportunity yourself."

Wu Bin nodded and asked, "Senior brother, do you think academic exchanges are of great help to you?"

"Of course it has a role, such as promoting the formation of one's own paper. This should be the most common reason for most people to attend conferences. After all, writing an academic paper is a physically and mentally draining task. Generally, it is just thinking about new research. You are most at ease when you are designing the topic and designing the entire research process and data collection methods. You must understand this, right?"

Wu Bin nodded, "It is indeed very interesting to start a project, especially when the data is just obtained. I will use it to verify the preliminary analysis right away."

"Hahaha, right!" Xiao Zhengrui laughed and said, "I feel that this process of satisfying curiosity stimulates the secretion of dopamine in my brain more than anything else. But when the data is available and the results are calculated, there will be no suspense. My balls started to hurt. Writing out these results was completely a process of fighting with myself.”

"Endlessly coding, repeatedly revising and refining words, sentences and structures, the process is boring and boring. It can drag on for a day, and the attention is easily attracted by other fresher envy. Those in the institute who have been indefinitely Isn’t that how all the old projects that have been shelved came about, right?”

"???"

'Isn't that the fun part? ’

But looking at Xiao Zhengrui's extremely resentful eyes, Wu Bin still nodded in agreement and said, "Well... right."

"So the role of participating in academic conferences comes at this time." Looking at Wu Bin's incomprehensible eyes, Xiao Zhengrui smiled proudly: "To put it bluntly, I have set a deadline for you. You see, attend You have to submit your project before the academic conference, right? Once it is approved and you agree to attend the academic conference, then you have to work hard to write your paper in time for the meeting date. That way you won’t be dragged down indefinitely.”

"So the most important function of academic conferences is to treat procrastination???" Wu Bin was also shocked. He never expected that the most important function of academic conferences was this.

Seeing Wu Bin's shocked expression, Xiao Zhengrui waved his hand and said, "There's nothing we can do about it. After all, the nature of human beings is Gu. If you don't set a deadline for yourself, it's possible that it will take as long as it takes."

"It seems to make sense..."

"What does it mean? You will know after you try it. It is really easy to use. In addition, understanding the latest academic opinions and research directions in the field is also a focus of the exchange meeting. I don't need to tell you more. To put it bluntly That is, when you stay in the office, you read the documents written by others, but when you go to the exchange meeting, you can listen to other people's analysis on the spot, and if your level is high enough, you can also ask two questions."

"Well, this sounds interesting." After all, the article is dry. If you can communicate with the author in person, you can understand the article in a more three-dimensional way.

"Oh, by the way, there is another important point." Xiao Zhengrui raised a finger and said.

"What?"

"Ahem!" Xiao Zhengrui coughed first, then looked back at the door and saw that no one was there before turning around and whispering: "Well... In fact, I personally think that academic conferences are just a vacation for many scholars, you say Normally, research is so boring. I either write articles alone for several months or read countless documents. Life has hardly changed, how boring it is."

"Academic conferences allow you to go to another city to get some fresh air during the few days of the conference with peace of mind. Therefore, eating, drinking and having fun at many academic conferences is a very important issue."

However, after finishing speaking, Xiao Zhengrui immediately added: "Of course, the above situation is only my personal understanding. After all, I have participated in limited high-end academic conferences, and I went there just for fun. It is possible that the academic collision between those big names is really It can explode with sparks."

"Okay, thank you, senior brother, for your advice. I understand."