During those conferences, researchers from the public and private sectors present their recent work and meet.
The researchers present their results as the starting point for the discussion.
But at a recent medical conference in Seattle, researchers presented a hormone study that focused on a different question: sleep.
The researchers will present their findings at a technical conference on optical storage systems to be held in California next week.
At a meeting a year ago, the researchers presented preliminary results showing that anger doubled the risk of heart attacks.
Over this past summer, however, researchers presented disturbing results at a scientific meeting.
And the researchers presented hard numbers, based on the surveys, to make their case.
Sometimes the researcher will present an explicit hypothesis and set out to test it.
The researcher should also present the limitations or weaknesses of the study.
The researchers also presented video clips which showed a person dancing to music.