Dual Anonymous Reviews
STScI, September 25th 2019
Bahcall Auditorium
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 | Coffee | |
16:15 | Breakout sessions: 3-4 sub-groups | What can be implemented? What remain as challenges? |
17:00 | Plenary session | Summary and next steps |
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