[Leica] Nathan's PAD 23/10/2018: IP Statistics for Decision Makers conference 2018

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Impressive! Well done on swelling the coffers of your adopted city, 
Nathan. A few more of those and you're a cert to get a Spanish civil 
honour. Congrats on your mentee's success too.

Douglas

On 26/10/2018 05:57, Nathan Wajsman 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
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> 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
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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