Dear all,
Let me express my surprise after todays session of “walk-through talks”. As we discussed
in detail during our last call and as Anita reminded everybody at the beginning of the
session, this presentation format and this session was meant for analyses in an advanced
stage, for which the A&R review has been concluded, for which the main results are
ready and for which a publication is expected shortly.
I was quite puzzled to see that roughly half of the presented talks did not match these
criteria (for me the Vela, N132D and HEGS talks were the only ones somewhat justified). I
think we need to understand what went wrong here. Was this due to a misunderstanding?
Misunderstanding about the aim of WT talks or the status of the presented analyses? At the
side of the conveners who proposed the talks? Or a miscommunication from the task leaders
towards the conveners about the task status? Something else?
In any case, I believe we should strive to avoid this confusion in the future. It is
extremely frustrating for tasks that were denied a WT talk this time because they did not
fully comply with the mentioned requirements to see others, at a less advanced stage,
being presented. I also believe we will have to redo proper WT talk once the analyses will
have reached that stage. Let me be clear: I am not saying that the talks today were a
waste of time! An update on the presented tasks was certainly helpful and necessary. They
were just not at the stage required within the publication scheme for the collaboration
walk-through.
Cheers,
Fabian
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Fabian Schüssler
CEA Irfu DPhP
Bât. 141, 153b
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Tel.: +33 1 69 08 30 20
http://irfu.cea.fr/Pisp/fabian.schussler