Page History

Time

Speaker(s)

Title

Notes

08:

30

Ken Sembach

Welcome & introduction

08:

45

Stefanie Johnson

(Colorado)

Unconscious bias in reviews

Basic

introduction

09:

15

Neill Reid (STScI)

HST TAC structure and proposal stats – before and after

Summary of HST TAC structure and metrics

09:30

Arvind Parmar (ESA)

ESA AO outcomes

09:45

Louis Strolger (STScI)

Preparing the community

Building the process, establishing guidelines and documentation, levelers, tracking results

10:15

Christina Richey (JPL), Rupali Chandar (Toledo), Brian Williams (GSFC)

Community reactions

Perspective on community interactions

10:45

Coffee

11:00

Svea Hernandez, Crystal Mannfolk, Greg Snyder (STScI)

Panel support perspective + levelers

What was it like to support the TAC in this format? Challenges and differences

11:45

Priya Natarajan (Yale), Saurabh Jha (Rutgers), Rupali Chandar (Toledo)

Panel chairs & panelist perspective

What was it like to review proposals in this format? Challenges and differences

12:30

Jessica Kirk

(Memphis)

Watching the TAC

Outside perspective comparing cycles 25, 26 and 27

13:00

 Lunch

Time

Mode

Title

Notes

13:30

Molly Peeples (STScI)

Lessons learned so far from the HST TAC process

Over-litigating, false assumptions, framing proposals

14:00

Breakout sessions:

3-4 sub-groups

Challenges for individual observatories – discussion

Identify 3-4 per group, includes areas where ST could do better

15:30

Plenary session

Challenges – report out

Summary from each group followed by general discussion

16:00

coffeeCoffee

16:15

Breakout sessions:

3-4 sub-groups

What can be implemented?

What remain as challenges?

Condense previous discussions

17:00

Plenary session

Summary and next steps

1-page slide summaries from each sub-group