Dear Arun

I disagree little with your answers. Symposium is usually for under graduate and post graduate  students and various events  (technical  events) will be conducted .

Workshop is exclusively on a particular area /topic on which experts( academic persons or  industrial experts)  will  give special lecture or training.

conference is a meeting experts for discussion . Symposium is a meeting to discuss a particular subject and collection of papers for this purpose. It is a philosophical discussion of the subject concerned. A workshop is a meeting for discussion and activity on a particular subject or project. In the workshop usually experts deliver lectures and the practicals are arranged to train up the participants.A seminar is a type of short intensive course .

Dear Arun

I disagree little with your answers. Symposium is usually for under graduate and post graduate  students and various events  (technical  events) will be conducted .

Workshop is exclusively on a particular area /topic on which experts( academic persons or  industrial experts)  will  give special lecture or training.

What's a conference?

Conferences tend to be the largest events vs. smaller workshops and seminars. They can number anywhere between fifty attendees to thousands of attendees, and the largest may host even more visitors that that. You'll come across both national and international conferences – national conferences are typically attended primarily by people living within the country which is hosting the event, while international conferences can attract visitors from all over the world.

Conferences tend to be the most prestigious forms of events as well, so they are the place where you most want the opportunity to present your work as a talk or as a poster. Speaking of which, conferences will usually involve a number of talks by prominent speakers in addition to poster sessions where researchers present their ideas and data in a visual format. When you attend a poster session, you can walk around and look at each of the different posters and stop to chat or to ask questions of the presenter as well. Presenters will stand next to their poster and will often have a short 5-10 minute explanation of the poster which they will give to anyone who asks.

If the conference is a large one, you will find concurrent events. This means that there might be two, four, or even more talks happening at the same time in different locations. You need to be organised to find out when and where the talks you want to see are being held, and you should make good use of your conference timetable which will hold all of this information.

What's a seminar?

The difference between a seminar and a workshop is that a seminar tends to be held within one institution or university, and will often a seminar will be a small group of people – say, between five and ten attendees – who come together to focus on a particular issue. Often seminars will be less formally structured than conferences, so one person might give a presentation but it will probably be brief. There is more of a focus on discussion at these events, so do feel free to chime in with your thoughts on the topic at hand.

Another difference between a seminar and a conference is that while conferences usually last for between a few days and a week, seminars will be much shorter. They may be for an hour or two in the afternoon rather than lasting all day. Some departments will organise regular seminars, so for example you might meet on the first Monday of every month.

Seminars are a great place to test out some new ideas or theories that you've been thinking about but aren't 100% confident with yet. If you're working on a concept or an idea for an experiment but you want to hear some feedback on it before you develop it further, offer to present it at a seminar. This kind of small group is perfect for getting honest feedback and you might even get some suggestions for improvements to your ideas.

The conference will be more extensive and inclusive of the topics while the workshop will be more specialized

As need based scientific forums organized the programmes, however, to achived specific solution in thrust area of related expert organized workshop with very limited number of participants.

There are different types of academic events, such as conferences, seminars, workshops and symposiums. Each has its own benefits and drawbacks. Usually the difference between a conference and a symposium is that a conference will be a larger event and a symposium a smaller one.

These are all scientific activities which can be classified and ordered in terms of capacity starting from the biggest to the smallest as follow: conference, symposium, seminar, workshop. Now usually conferences, symposiums, and seminars have discussion commitees and more than one speaker, presenter. However, workshops are usually and could be conducted by one single presenter.

In terms of practical skills, usually workshops include some demonstrations and practice. However, others are more like theoritical presentations without the actual application. Also, in workshops presenter can talk for hours. However, in others each presenter has limited time (i.e., 15-20 minutes).

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