Schedule

Dual Anonymous Reviews

Morning: Facts and foundations – issues, actions and community reception

Time	Speaker(s)	Title
08:30	Ken Sembach	Welcome & introduction
08:45	Stefanie Johnson (Colorado)	Unconscious bias in reviews
09:15	Neill Reid (STScI)	HST TAC structure and proposal stats – before and after
09:30	Arvind Parmar (ESA)	ESA AO outcomes
09:45	Louis Strolger (STScI)	Preparing the community
10:15	Christina Richey (JPL), Rupali Chandar (Toledo), Brian Williams (GSFC)	Community reactions
10:45		Coffee
11:00	Svea Hernandez, Crystal Mannfolk, Greg Snyder (STScI)	Panel support perspective + levelers
11:45	Priya Natarajan (Yale), Saurabh Jha (Rutgers), Rupali Chandar (Toledo)	Panel chairs & panelist perspective
12:30	Jessica Kirk (Memphis)	Watching the TAC
13:00		Lunch

Afternoon: Spreading the word – adapting the process to other facilities

Time	Mode	Title
13:30	Molly Peeples (STScI)	Lessons learned so far from the HST TAC process
14:00	Breakout sessions: 3-4 sub-groups	Challenges for individual observatories – discussion
15:30	Plenary session	Challenges – report out
16:00		Discussion summary & feedback to NASA Astrophysics Division

Breakout sessions will be in the Lyman Spitzer Boardroom, N420, S322 and Cafe Con, all in STScI’s Muller Building.

Reference materials

Report from the Working Group for Anonymising Proposals

HST Cycle 27 Anonymous Proposal Reviews - documentation for submitting and reviewing Cycle 27 proposals