Conference

How it is used

Researchers attend, organize or present at a conference. Academic conferences include paper sessions, poster sessions and keynote talks. Congress, symposium and workshop name related events of different sizes and formats.

Example sentences

1. Are you going to the annual conference in Vienna this year?

2. She presented her preliminary findings at an international conference.

Common collocations

• attend a conference
• present at a conference
• international conference
• conference paper
• conference proceedings

Related terms

• call for papersAn announcement inviting researchers to submit abstracts or papers for a conference, a journal special issue or an edited book, usually with topics and a deadline.
• keynoteThe main talk at a conference, given by an invited and usually well-known speaker, often to all participants at the start of a day.
• poster sessionA part of a conference where researchers display their work on large printed posters and talk informally with people who come to read them.
• proceedingsA published collection of the papers or abstracts presented at a conference, issued as a book, an online volume or a special journal issue.
• Q&AShort for 'questions and answers': the part of a talk or session when the audience asks questions and the speaker replies.

More terms: Conferences and Presentations

• present
• panel
• session chair
• workshop