This page describes the discussion of EC proposals by the Discussion Panels to provide feedback to the EC.  

A subset of the EC Proposals will be assigned to each panel. Panelists should read these proposals ahead of the Panel Meeting. Panelists do not grade those proposals. However, they should prepare to discuss those proposals and identify strengths and weaknesses to help the Chair and Vice Chair when those proposals are discussed and graded by the Executive Committee. Given the time limitations and the workload, it is at the discretion of the panel Chair and Vice Chair to decide on which proposals they would like to receive feedback, i.e. for which proposals the panel feedback will be most useful for the Executive Committee discussion. At-Large members may also solicit feedback from the Discussion Panels on their assigned proposals.  It is also at their discretion to decide how to distribute the EC proposals amongst the discussion panelists, whether to solicit feedback from all the panelists, or to distribute proposals to subsets of them following a primary/secondary scheme.    

These EC proposals may cover a wide range of science areas, and some may not correspond to the panel science category. This is because the proposals sent will be based on what your panel Chair and Vice Chair have been assigned, and the EC members are expected to evaluate proposals in a wide range of science areas.  The Call for Proposals explicitly recommends that all EC proposals should be written for an appropriately broad audience, as the will be evaluated by reviewers with expertise with the field of Galactic or Extragalactic astronomy, for the Galactic and Extragalactic ECs, respectively, but few will have expertise within the broad science area of the proposal, and it is possible none will have expertise in the specific subfield of the proposal. 

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