title: The highs and lows of scientific conferences.
abstract: What are the main characteristics of scientific conferences and what distinguishes the successful meetings from the less successful? Here, semi-seriously, I present a set of observations and suggestions that are organized into categories (such as big versus little conferences and long versus short conferences) and, for each category, I award the new meeting Oscars - the Georges.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, MS 029, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA. petsko@brandeis.edu
authors.forename: Gregory A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Petsko
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards*; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D012586:Science / Q000592:standards*; D012919:Social Behavior