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Tips on How to Connect at Academic Conferences – Kamathematics

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I was a kinda awkward teenager. If you are a CS researcher reading this post, then chances are, you were too. How to navigate social situations and make friends is not always intuitive, and has to …

I was a kinda awkward teenager. If you are a CS researcher reading this post, then chances are, you were too. How to navigate social situations and make friends is not always intuitive, and has to be learnt. This is particularly true at a conference, where the event is short (just a few days) and the number of people may be intimidatingly large (in the thousands of people). So I wrote this post to give some pointers on how I might go about socially navigating such events, particularly as a newcomer. I hope to do the following two things: Convince you that connecting with other researchers in y

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