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

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 afterSummary of HST TAC structure and metrics

09:30

Arvind Parmar (ESA)

ESA AO outcomes

09:45

Louis Strolger (STScI)

Preparing the communityBuilding 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 + levelersWhat 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 TACOutside perspective comparing cycles 25, 26 and 27

13:00


 Lunch


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

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

Coffee

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-slide summaries

16:00


Discussion summary & feedback to NASA Astrophysics Division

from each sub-group


Breakout sessions will be in the Lyman Spitzer Boardroom, N420, S215 S322 and S322Cafe 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