Early submission date is Dec 8

Posted December 2, 2008
Filed under: OBTC 2009 |

Submitting a proposal by Dec 8 has several advantages.  I anticipate a higher acceptance rate among the first group than will be possible for the Jan 12 submission date.  I’ll explain in the next paragraph.  Also you will likely get your review back soon and know how to make your travel plans.  You will also help us spread the reviewing process over a longer period of time and thus put less pressure on reviewers.  So think about submitting soon.

Why do I think there will be a higher acceptance rate for early submissions?  I’ll get blind review (usually 3) and look at the proposals myself.  Those that are clear acceptances will be accepted.  Those that are clear rejections will be rejected (and thus may give you time to propose something else or more complete for the Jan 12 final submission date).  Some proposals in-between will be held and considered again in the final pool (possibly including additional reviews).  I only have a limited number of slots in the program and following the procedures started last year will begin building the program from accepted proposals.  As I get to the end of the review process in January, I anticipate that I’ll accept additional high quality proposals, but that some mid-range proposals will have to be rejected, possibly including some that might have been accepted if in the original December pool.  So submit early.

Also if we get lots more high quality papers than I can accept, I may go back to some people with 2 or more acceptances and ask them to choose which proposal to present.

Just wanted this process to be more transparent.

Joe

Joe Seltzer, program coordinator

1 comment so far

  1. Bob Herring on December 8, 2008

    Thanks, Joe:

    This is very helpful in explaining WHY a proposal accepted now stands a greater chance of acceptance.

    Some of us were disappointed last year when proposals of equal or greater caliber than ones which had been accepted over a 10 year period–but not submitted until January–were not accepted.

    Now I have a better understanding of how this two-date system works.

    Bob


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