Morning: Facts and foundations – issues, actions and community reception
Time | Speaker(s) | Title | Notes |
08:45 | Ken Sembach | Welcome & introduction | |
09:00 | Stefanie Johnson, Univ of Colorado | Unconscious bias in reviews | Basic intro |
09:30 | Neill Reid | HST TAC structure and proposal stats | Summary of HST TAC structure and metrics |
09:45 | Louis Strolger | Preparing the community and lessons learned | Building the process, establishing guidelines and documentation, levelers, tracking results |
10:15 | Panel: TBD | Community reactions | Perspective on community interactions |
10:45 | coffee | ||
11:00 | 3-4 PSS & levelers | Panel support perspective + levelers | What was it like to support the TAC in this format? Challenges and differences |
11:45 | 3-4 Cy 26 & 27 chairs/panelists | Panel chairs & panelist perspective | What was it like to review proposals in this format? Challenges and differences |
12:30 | Jessica Kirk, Univ. of Memphis | Watching the TAC | CcIomparing 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 | Lessons so far from the HST TAC | 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-page summaries from each sub-group |
