Dear all,
Thanks to everyone who made changes and proposed suggestions.
Daan: Special thanks for sending in your full conflict resolution list. It looked very similar to mine so I have adopted it almost everywhere.
The spreadsheet is now updated with 256 unique talks.
Questions / tasks for all: - Some tracks (DE, nus, ML) don't have multiple of 5 speakers. We can remove some / add some / ignore and have a non-full block. Any preference? - Please cross-check that we have not missed anyone crucial. Or a good talk. - What would we want to do for posters? Do we want to offer posters to all the abstracts not accepted as talks? (~120 slots - seems too much to me)
I would like to send in acceptance/rejections on Monday at the latest given that we had announced it would be ~today.
Cheers, Matthieu
On 14/05/2026 15:54, Matthieu Schaller wrote:
Dear all,
Thanks to all the convenors' timely and thorough work we have a full list of ranked abstracts.
Taking the lists at face values, we have 202 uniquely accepted talks. Overall, 276 talks have been selected which tells you that about 70 talks have been selected for multiple tracks. We thus have a bit of work on our hands to curate all this, select the most appropriate track for the duplicated ones, and finish the lists.
All the abstracts, including the convenors' comments, are attached (620 pages!)
The working spreadsheet is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_wNrwbMAmElj7J_DKWgw8p_5K6Ihr6ISF5zg...
The main sheets are: - 'Full List' ---> Raw dump from Indico with full info on each talk (minus abstract). - 'Ranked per track' ---> The somewhat homogenized ranking we got from the convenors - 'All tracks' ---> Working sheet where we need to sort out the duplications. - 'All tracks with duplicates' ---> Frozen version of the current state so we have a record.
The other sheets give the per-track list which we can in the future use to sort out a program.
On the 'All tracks' sheet, you should be able to edit only the yellow cells. The numbers correspond to the talk ID in the main sheet (or Indico). Red crosses indicate duplicates.
The "game" now is to eliminate red crosses and moving entries up by choosing the most appropriate track of a given "red cross". Additional talk IDs can be copied from the 'Ranked per track' sheet to keep populating the bottom of a given track.
Finally, on the 'Full List', all the selected talks are indicated. This should let us see that we don't have someone who fell through the cracks.
I will not be able to do much more on this until Friday afternoon.
Recall that we have a somewhat strong deadline to complete the selection by Monday.
If you have time to help curate the list, the help will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Matthieu