Conference question

[AKJen]

Is anyone going to be at the AAA conference in December? I've been thinking about attending, but it is pretty late in application season. To those who have attended, what is the atmosphere like at this conference? Most of the academic conferences I've been to have been relatively small and focused on a very small topic (i.e. ELSI issues related to genomic medicine, indigenous health research, Alaska Native research).

Is there time in a conference this large to set up meetings with potential advisors, professors with interesting work, etc.?

I won't be able to visit programs but if I'm in Philly, I could check in with people at Penn and possibly Princeton.

[far_to_go]

I'm planning to go. I went to the AAA conference a few years ago (as an undergrad), and it seemed that there were a lot of opportunities to network with profs. It's a huge conference with many different topics and fields of interest. You can search the preliminary program to see if specific people will be presenting: http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/search/

Best of luck to you, Jennyb!