I doubt your presentations were really peer reviewed, Larry. Abstracts usually are submitted to a program chairman who chooses among the submissions for inclusion in the various sessions in the chairman's area of expertise, but this is not the same as peer review, except in so far if the chairman thinks the presentation is likely to be without merit it can be rejected. Presentions are less formal, and count for much less in a resume, than peer reviewed articles. After all, presentations are usually in the nature of breaking results or progress reports. I'm not expert in most of the areas addressed by the Hamm presentation, but I'm skeptical of considering it as authoritative. One bother is the appearance of a conflict of interest; another is the careless terminology.
Finally, and I realize this seems elitist, I don't expect presentations by a person with such modest academic credentials, although I admit that graduate students often present their first paper at such a conference. My initiation was as a graduate student at the formidable Rackham Auditorium at U. Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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Finally, and I realize this seems elitist, I don't expect presentations by a person with such modest academic credentials, although I admit that graduate students often present their first paper at such a conference. My initiation was as a graduate student at the formidable Rackham Auditorium at U. Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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