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The optimal (organizer's target) size for this
meeting is considered to be 50 participants, plus or minus ten.
(The upper limit will be set at 70 participants.)
The target size is very much in line with the
number of researchers who participated in Tuberculosis 2006 in
April 2006 - also taking in to account the opinions of
individuals who participated in the meeting. Fifty to fifty-five
participants made for extremely effective, wide ranging
scientific exchanges and a wonderfully relaxed atmosphere. The
meeting was not too large to be impersonal, not too small to
limit the strength and variety of the science on display - and
practically the perfect size to allow participants to speak to
everyone they both knew and didn't know in the room within the
available time.
Given the location, timing, format and their
innovative structure, it is, however, extremely difficult to
predict exactly how many participants each meeting will attract
- numbers also very much depend on the size of individual
scientific fields.
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