Can I deduct as "a business expense re improving myself toward getting a future job" for a conference I attended (that was required for PhD). I'm a grad student as well as unemployed software engineer (worked till April 4 2017). Knowledge gained & networking would help with my occupation going forward. Am looking for another software developer job. The conference was also required in that I need to get 2 papers published to graduate and the way to get them done is via these conferences. This is common practice as journal papers can take too long to get published.
I cannot deduct for education expense as reached limits re agi-
