[ RadSafe ] IRPA 12 Congress in Buenos Aires

Fri Nov 7 05:44:54 CST 2008

I found the registration process at the beginning 
VERY badly organized. The sessions afterwards 
went fairly smoothly as far as I can tell.

I also agree that additional courses and seminars 
were -at least- too expensive. Given the quality 
and level of some of the presentations, at least 
one seminar was not worth U$S 120 at all. Just my opinion, of course.

On the other hand, it was a good opportunity to 
see a nice picture of what is going on in the RP world.

Sandra Matzkin
Nuclear Engineering Department
INVAP SE
Bariloche
ARGENTINA

At 05:39 11/07/2008, Peter Bossew wrote:
>I heard the IRPA 12 was quite badly organized, 
>some participants complained about the logistics. - Any opinions about this ?
>
>I agree with Franz that monster conferences are 
>questionable, and in general too expensive. I 
>also doubt their efficiency in terms of costs 
>(time, logistics, $$$) and benefits (apart from 
>the benefit to the conference organizing 
>industry, of course), and I try to give them a 
>miss, if I can. (For IRPA 12 I could.)
>It is true on the other hand, that these are 
>opportunities to meet people (in particular at 
>coffee breaks and at the (hm) social events in 
>the evenings) whom one would not meet at the 
>usual small meetings and technical workshops 
>etc., which are certainly more efficient, but as 
>"family conventions" have it, their horizon may 
>be more restricted, so to say. (I envy Franz for the Morocco conf.)
>For example, I have been to the IGC 33 in Oslo 
>in August ... ~10^4 participants, Oslo filled 
>with geologists up to the last backpacker hostel 
>room; excellent organization, interesting 
>subjects; but again, I met almost only with 
>people whom I had already known before, and the 
>sheer size of the event almost did not allow any 
>contacts across borders of disciplines. (For 
>those interested, we (JRC) had a sub-symposium 
>about Rn mapping, presentations in: 
>http://radonmapping.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php?id=37&no_cache=1&dlpath=Conference_Presentations%2F2008_33IGC 
>; if the link does not work: 
>http://radonmapping.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ -> 
>Documents -> Conference Presentations -> 2008 33IGC)
>
>Next monster-conference (well, medium sized 
>compared to IRPA and IGC) will be Geostats 2008, 
>Santiago / Chile, in Dec., conference fee 850 $ 
>!!! (and that is the early-bird rate!) -- 
>unfortunately "the" event in the field, and 
>therefore not to be missed. -- Porca miseria, as we Italians say...
>
>Peter
>
>
>
>
>Perle, Sandy wrote:
>>These large meetings do provide many benefits, 
>>even if the fee is considered too high. I found 
>>that the IRPA fees were not too bad, compared 
>>to other meetings of this scope. One negative 
>>comment I heard often was that many did not 
>>consider that some of the sessions required 
>>additional fees, that were not covered in the 
>>registration fee. On a positive note, the costs 
>>of everything in Argentina was very inexpensive.
>>
>>As far as the meeting, there was ample time to 
>>attend sessions and one was able to move from 
>>session to session without difficulty. 
>>Scheduling and maintaining time was done quite well.
>>
>>I find the best reason to attend these meetings 
>>is the networking that can be done, and, 
>>meeting with colleagues and friends who also 
>>attend. For example, I met with colleagues such 
>>as Dr. Hefner and others from ARCS. These 
>>meetings afford one the opportunity to meet and 
>>discuss topics of mutual interest in-between sessions.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl 
>>[mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of Franz Schönhofer
>>Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 8:01 AM
>>To: 'Bjorn Cedervall'; radsafe at radlab.nl
>>Subject: AW: [ RadSafe ] IRPA 12 Congress in Buenos Aires
>>
>>Björn,
>>
>>My comment is very simple: I never take part in such "monster-conferences",
>>not even when it was held in Vienna, my town of residence. The fee is much
>>to high. I do not believe that any reasonable work can be done at a
>>conference with several parallel sessions, which one is usually not able to
>>switch to in time. The topics are much to broad to be able to find out about
>>details of interest.
>>
>>Sorry, I just came back from a conference in Marocco, less than 200
>>participants - a number enabling one contacting everybody on topics of
>>interest and to establish new contacts.
>>I will not visit such IRPA monster conferences in the future.
>>Med vaenlig haelsning,
>>
>>Franz
>>
>>Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
>>MinRat i.R.
>>Habicherg. 31/7
>>A-1160 Wien/Vienna
>>AUSTRIA
>>
>>
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