I like going to conferences. I like having results and being an expert on something enough to stand up in front of my peers and tell them about it. I think it is a big, important part of science.
But now the question is, what conference would I go to? As a particle physicist the answer was either APS April Meeting (their big particle/astro/cosmo meeting) or a division meeting - the division of nuclear physics or particles and fields. These conferences are fairly big and have lots of students. There is often support from APS for students to go. Sure, there were other conferences (usually in more exciting places) that had a specific topic, like a specific type of detector technology or type of particle interaction. But those conferences had fewer students and usually only one (or a few) people from a single experiment. The APS meetings had plenty of overlap - a session of double beta decay people each giving the same overview of double beta decay, for instance.
Now March meeting is slightly more appropriate - the HUGE condensed matter meeting has biophysics as well. Am I a biophysicist? Well, sortof. I'd like to present the Cerenkov Light Imaging simulations I am working on. It involves simulations of particle interactions (physics) and it is used for biological measurements. So it sounds like biophysics to me.
