Promising Too Much
Obviously I have been promising too much. I must admit that I completely underestimated how time-consuming GI-Days would be. There was not even time to think about blogging about the conference. However, I will give you a short wrap-up of what happened in Münster from September 10-12 now.
The conference started with a little unofficial ice breaker event on Sunday evening, which already turned out to be quite nice. The actual conference then started on Monday with a keynote by Max Craglia from JRC, in his usual very entertaining way. In the first session of paper presentations, it already turned out that people were not at all as reluctant as we thought they might be - there were very lively discussions, and people got in touch very quickly during the breaks and at lunch. So it very much seemed like organizing a separate events only for people who are just starting their academic career might have been a very good idea. The other sessions on Monday and also Tuesday were full of very good presentations – apparently young researchers spend more time on preparing their slides than some of the experienced guys. The conference dinner was also a nice event, and I think a lot of connections were made during the two days of conference that will hopefully last a long time. The program was rounded of by some tutorials on Wednesday, which also got a very good feedback.
Summarizing, GI-Days were a very good conference, actually much better than a lot of people (including myself) had expected before. It looks like there is really a need for a distinct event only for PhD- and masters students, so we have to figure out in the near future how to continue this new series with another young researchers forum.
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