Academic conference

Together with academic or scientific journals and preprint archives, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between researchers.

Further benefits of participating in academic conferences include learning effects in terms of presentation skills and "academic habitus", receiving feedback from peers for one's own research, the possibility to engage in informal communication with peers about work opportunities and collaborations, and getting an overview of current research in one or more disciplines.

In addition to presentations, conferences also feature panel discussions, round tables on various issues, poster sessions and workshops.

Some organizers, and therefore disciplines require presenters to submit a paper, which is peer reviewed by members of the program committee or referees chosen by them.

Advanced technology for meeting with any yet unknown person in a conference is performed by active RFID that may indicate willfully identified and relatively located upon approach via electronic tags.

It describes the broad theme and lists the meeting's topics and formalities such as what kind of abstract (summary) or paper has to be submitted, to whom, and by what deadline.

A CFP is usually distributed using a mailing list or on specialized online services such as Call for Papers[10] (CFPs) Index.

[14] A correspondence on Nature.com points out the "paradox of needing to fly to conferences" despite increased calls for sustainability by environmental scientists.

[15][16] The academic community's carbon footprint is comprised in large parts by emissions caused by air travel.