AMS Conference

I am in LAX waiting for my flight to San Francisco. I am going to the AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings. My first time in this conference where most of the attendees are pure mathematicians. So my feedback about the conference will be afterwords.

I am having the same feeling as usual: last minute I would prefer just to stay home. Going to conferences imply so much effort. I don't think people realize that until they go to several of them. All the preparations start when we decide which conference to go and think what we can present. Writing an abstract could be an easy part. Planning all the trip (booking flight, hotel, shuttles, etc.). Register. Find out what talks to go. Get the work done! Prepare a presentation!!! And, of course, all the work we postpone that week!

I am so whining!!!

The truth is that each conference gives me a lot back. It is not only the opportunity to share my work and to hear of others work, but also meet new colleagues, maybe new friends. It is a week that energizes me. New ideas, new spirit!

I already have plans for meeting two Argentinean friends I have not seen for a while.

It is a big conference. A different from the ones I have attended before. Let's see what I get from it!