Duties of the Chair of the Paper Selection Committee (PSC)
Duties
The duties of the Chair of the PSC are the following:
- Choosing the reviewers who will evaluate the abstracts;
- Deciding the cut-off score and other criteria for the acceptance and rejection of abstracts;
- Close interaction with the Chair of the Scientific Committee, especially before Council Meetings to prepare reports;
- Preparing lists of Oral Presentations Focussed-Orals and e-posters, according to the scores given by the reviewers;
- Sorting out the Grant Winners (including the “Altruistic Survey by Questionnaire” — ASQ winners);
- Sorting out the Best Abstracts;
- Preparing the programme of Free Communications sessions for the Congress;
- Preparing the programme of Focussed-Oral sessions for the Congress;
- Preparing the programme of moderated e-poster sessions for the Congress
- Preparing and distributing to the Council statistical data about the abstracts: number received, acceptance rate, etc.;
- Taking part in the Scientific Committee;
- Any other task that the Council decides.