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Decisions, decisions
Aug. 13th, 2008 10:45 amWell.
So, the programs have been released for the two conferences in November I have an interest in attending. On the one hand, we have LISA08. I've been to this conference pretty much every year that I've been allowed to go to a conference, and this conference has been such a huge boost to my professional career over the years. There's some interesting talks being given and the conference is in San Diego this year (so there's some opportunity there to piggyback a family vacation onto the trip), but for the most part the training track has nothing of interest, and even in the training program (the conference "proper", with the papers and invited talks) piece there are only a couple of things that I can easily tie into my current (and near-term) direction, career-wise.
On the other hand, there's SuperComputing 2008. The tutorials offered have a bunch of stuff that would be of immediate help in terms of my current job (and it's probably short- and mid-term direction, and the panels/invited talks have some areas that would possibly be of interest as well. It's located in Austin, TX, though, so that would put a cramp on the possible trip to SD if not kill it outright, at least for this year. Plus, most of the people I'd be able to see at LISA won't be at SC08.
Hmf.
Wonder if work will let me go to the last three days of LISA, and then the first couple of days of SC08...?
So, the programs have been released for the two conferences in November I have an interest in attending. On the one hand, we have LISA08. I've been to this conference pretty much every year that I've been allowed to go to a conference, and this conference has been such a huge boost to my professional career over the years. There's some interesting talks being given and the conference is in San Diego this year (so there's some opportunity there to piggyback a family vacation onto the trip), but for the most part the training track has nothing of interest, and even in the training program (the conference "proper", with the papers and invited talks) piece there are only a couple of things that I can easily tie into my current (and near-term) direction, career-wise.
On the other hand, there's SuperComputing 2008. The tutorials offered have a bunch of stuff that would be of immediate help in terms of my current job (and it's probably short- and mid-term direction, and the panels/invited talks have some areas that would possibly be of interest as well. It's located in Austin, TX, though, so that would put a cramp on the possible trip to SD if not kill it outright, at least for this year. Plus, most of the people I'd be able to see at LISA won't be at SC08.
Hmf.
Wonder if work will let me go to the last three days of LISA, and then the first couple of days of SC08...?
