{"id":1496,"date":"2014-09-18T16:36:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T15:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jutze.com\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2014-10-02T15:52:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:52:39","slug":"conference-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"Conference Preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The German psychological association (<a title=\"Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Psychologie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dgps.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">DGPS<\/a>) is holding its biannual conference next week. I will be there, giving a talk on Wednesday. This means that earlier this year I submitted an abstract, looked for funding, and registered. As always, it has been a long process with many gaps in between. Here is a &#8211; possibly incomplete &#8211; list of my preparations a few days before the actual event.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Compile the actual talk, practice the talk on my own (10 minutes), give the talk to members of our department (9 minutes 40 seconds).<\/li>\n<li>Send slides to the organizers, back-up slides on two USB sticks as well as in my email account.<\/li>\n<li>Be annoyed that slides are seemingly mandatory.<\/li>\n<li>Buy train ticket.<\/li>\n<li>Read the program, select interesting talks, compile a preliminary list of sessions to attend.<\/li>\n<li>Get an impression of the conference site by looking at maps, if necessary print maps.<\/li>\n<li>Check the local public transport system, print out timetables, if necessary obtain taxi phone numbers.<\/li>\n<li>Check the weather forecast.<\/li>\n<li>Make a packing list, take as little with me as possible, bring my conference ticket.<\/li>\n<li>Print out the trivia like the city&#8217;s Wikipedia page for on board entertainment if travelling in a group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reading through this list I realize two things.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>This doesn&#8217;t look like a lot of preparation to me. Yet, I&#8217;ve often found myself being better prepared than most others.<\/li>\n<li>Maybe I should print out a set of my slides just in case.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German psychological association (DGPS) is holding its biannual conference next week. I will be there, giving a talk on Wednesday. This means that earlier this year I submitted an abstract, looked for funding, and registered. As always, it has been a long process with many gaps in between. Here is a &#8211; possibly incomplete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[582,581,583,289],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-conference","tag-dgps","tag-preparation","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}