Well done getting that done, Nathan. It’s a long time since I had to organise
something big, but I know how nerve-wracking it can be.
Chris
> On 26 Oct 2018, at 05:57, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Not the most sexy of subject lines, I know…but this week our office hosted
> one of major annual events on the global IP economics circuit, together with
> the OECD. Offering to host the conference was something I proposed last year,
> so I have been a bit tense and nervous this week—in the way a football coach
> is nervous before a match. All the preparations had been made, the speakers
> lined up, the logistics were in good hands etc., but in the end you don’t
> know if it went well until it is over. It is now over, and it did go well.
> Two snippets from the conference.
>
> The conference was truly global—here is a panel of three presenters, from
> Korea, China and the US, respectively, chaired by Prof. Castaldi from the
> Technical University of Eindhoven:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-XNXQLQj/A
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-XNXQLQj/A>
>
> In addition to the presentations in the auditorium, there were also “poster
> sessions” in the lobby, as is typical for academic conferences. These are
> basically papers that did not quite make the cut to be presented orally (the
> selection was made by an external Scientific Committee) but were still
> considered good enough to be presented. Here is one of those posters and one
> of the co-authors, whom I consider one of our real success stories. Antanina
> is Lithuanian. She was a trainee in my department a few years ago, then went
> on to the PhD programme at the University of Padova in Italy, where she will
> defend her dissertation next month. And she has just been hired for a
> post-doc position at the University of Bournemouth in England. I have kept in
> touch with her over the years, visiting her in Padova two years ago, and
> writing recommendations for her along the way when needed. So I am really
> pleased to see her progress:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-MBsdTMr/A
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-MBsdTMr/A>
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