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roed314
Collapse conferences in Browse talks
Larger conferences can overwhelm the listings of talks on the browse page.
One option would be to list the conference as an all day event for each day it occurs, with an expandable listing of talks happening that day.
This would make it much easier for users not interested in a particular conference to browse the remaining talks.
I don't think conferences should be all day events, it is much more valuable to have the individual talks listed separately. I also think that a user who is really not interested in a conference is probably not interested in the topic and could filter it out that way.
Personally I don't mind seeing 14 number theory talks every day this week in the CANT conference, even though I am not a combinatorial/additive number theorist. A few of the talks are of interest to me, and I would be sad if I never saw them because they were all collapsed into a single entry or worse, the entire day was a single event.
In physics the issue Jamie is raising is definitely a problem. E.g. in the arxiv category hep-th, there are many unrelated research directions. Many institutions organize their calendars in a similar spirit to what Jamie is describing: both in the IAS and the Simons Center calendars you actually have to click a link and go to the workshop webpage to access the schedule for a given day.
Hmm. Maybe we could provide an optional filter (in the more dropdown) that would only show talks that are the first talk of the day in its series (this isn't so different from filtering talks by time of day). This would be easy to implement and I think would do what you want.
We could also provide an option to only show the next talk in each series (regardless of day). This is not the same as browsing by seminar series, since it lets you see the details for the talk and would include the first talk in each conference as well.