OPEN READINGS 2012 conference feedback

Please indicate the most significant shortcomings of conference organization

  1. The time of the poster sessions was too late, the lecture "What do we know about the universe?" was a bit boring
  2. Lack of information before the conference: where and when to be etc.
  3. leaflet about activity after conference: there was written only the place where the party is, but not even when and what ( bowling or smth). in the invitation e-mail you sent that participans has to write thesis ( A dissertation or thesis[1] is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis). ispite of thesis there should be abstract, because you printing abstract book. no e-mails sent about the programme and time of presentation.
  4. 1)As a visitor to Vilnius , found it difficult to get used to transportation system, in the homepage, there should be info about buying tickets to busses and trolleys, while traveling through city. 2)Internet in dormatory.
  5. Lack of information before the conference which resulted low amount of people. Second lecture in Planetarium.
  6. At the time of my presentation there were other presenters with I wanted to ask but couldn't because I was presenting at the same time.
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  8. Technical problems in oral sessions, lack of professors.
  9. Chairmen sometimes failed to ask any question, when noone else asked. The abstracts book contains several abstracts that seem to be never looked through by organizers (e.g. about the Higgs boson)
  10. 1) Well... we were not preprared we will be placed in dormitories that are as bad as in most dormitories Poland (but, acutally, we could have expected so). 2) There was a little mess with the internet in the dormitories. Even if we weren't going to use, it would be more confortable to know how to get it and what are the prices.