This document describes how Conveners can view the abstracts submitted to their session, accept or reject them, request that specific abstracts be moved to another session, utilize the one complimentary registration per twenty accepted abstracts benefit and provide the Section President and Program Committee with information on when you do and do not want your Session scheduled.

The planned abstract submission deadline is 23 Feb 2022. Reviews need to be completed and acceptance notifications sent by 23 Mar 2022. Please complete the review preferably by 09 Mar 2022 but no later than 16 Mar 2022. This is so that Section Presidents can have time to rectify (if needed).

It is requested that you decide as soon as possible on the acceptance, rejection, and movement of the abstracts submitted to your Session. Because review decisions (accept or reject) are a compulsory requirement for determining funding support (AOGS Comps and Reduced Registration Fee), it is very important that Conveners complete their reviews on time. This will then allow the Treasurer and the Program Chair the maximum amount of time to perform their duties. These decisions should be made before or by 16 Mar 2022 at the latest.

This is NOT the time for detailed time scheduling of your session, meaning assigning Invited abstracts or deciding when a paper will be presented and whether it will be oral/poster.

Note: - Abstract Submission Policy (since AOGS2011)

From AOGS2011, authors will need to complete the payment of the abstract processing fee BEFORE an abstract can be further processed. Abstracts in the PENDING state are those whose abstract processing fees remain unpaid. These abstracts are not eligible for review or acceptance. Conveners can review abstracts in the ACTIVE state only. They are not duplicates, withdrawals and cleared abstract processing fee payment. Due to deadline extensions and whatever reasons, some abstract processing fees may take longer time to settle. These abstracts can only progress to the ACTIVE state and qualify for review later.
Please make periodic checks to see if there are any new ACTIVE abstracts that need to be reviewed.

Please keep the session information up-to-date, including the session title, descriptions, and convener lists.

1. Log into MARS: https://meetmatt-svr.net
2. Click “My Sessions” from the left menu. And you will see the My Sessions page.
3. Click on the session code (e.g., PS03) to view the session details
4. Click “edit” and you will able to
   • Update the session details such as title, description, scheduling preferences.
   • Add / remove co-conveners, and change the main convener.
     (Co-conveners are automatically listed by last/family names alphabetically.)

Follow the steps below to view the abstracts submitted to your session(s).

1. Go to “My Sessions” page.
2. Under the session summary is a section titled “Abstract Submission Summary”, which is a table that summaries the statistics of the abstracts in your Session.
3. Click the abstract count next to “Total Submitted” and you will see the Abstract List page. This page lists the abstracts that are submitted to your Session.

Note that the acceptance/rejection decisions you will enter online are TENTATIVE, i.e., they are NOT immediately visible to the authors. The review results will be FINALIZED on the acceptance notification date (23 Mar 2022), and after that the review results will be sent to and made visible to the authors.

You may change your decisions before the acceptance notification date.

1. Go to the Abstract Details page
2. On top of the page, click the link “Review”.
3. Fill up the review form. For the majority of the cases, you are required to enter
   • Review Decision: Accept / Reject
   • Comments to authors
4. Click “Save” to save the changes.

If you want to do this then contact the Section President, first author, and Lead Convener of the other session with your request. If they agree then the Section President will arrange the abstract’s movement with the Secretariat by email to: info@asiaoceania.org . If the author does not agree, then the responsibility to accept or reject the abstract returns to you.

Starting from 2012, a new funding support scheme is introduced – details here: https://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2022/public.asp?page=funding_support.asp#COMPS

Complimentary Registration (AOGS Comps)
For every 20 accepted abstracts, 1 complimentary registration provided to the Session Convener for deciding the recipient. Total funding available is up to 200 complimentary registrations.

This is how Conveners can go about deciding the “AOGS Comps” recipient:

1. Go to “My Sessions” page.
2. Click the link “Assign Complimentary Registration” next to the abstract count, to view the page.
3. This page displays the session’s AOGS Comps quota calculated based on the number of abstracts that have been marked “To Accept” in the session. It also lists all the authors in the session, and if he/she is already an “AOGS Comps” recipient (by another Session), it will also show up here. Each person can only benefit once and the benefit is not transferable.
4. Always click the “Assign Complimentary Registration” link to check any unconsumed quota. Click “Comps” to utilize the quota. Click “Clear Comps” if you would like to remove the AOGS Comps benefit to the author.

You may enter online your preferences for the scheduling of your Session, e.g., the time/date you prefer, times/dates you want to avoid, whether it should (or should not) be scheduled on the same day that another Session is scheduled. Your preferences will be visible to the Section Presidents at the time of scheduling / time allocation, but it is not guaranteed that they will be satisfied.

1. Go to “My Sessions” page.
2. Click on the session code (e.g., PS03)
3. Click the link “Edit” above Session Details.
4. Enter Remarks and Special Requirements and Save.

1. Conveners should inform their Section President by email when they have fulfilled their duties, or if they anticipate trouble doing so. You can find all email addresses on the “Committee Page” here: https://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2022/public.asp?page=program_committee.asp
2. The next stage of the Convener’s responsibility involves scheduling the accepted abstracts, following such a schedule.
   
   By 16 Mar 2022
   1. Section Presidents allocate time slots to Conveners and copy the same to Program Chair by email to: robin.robertson@xmu.edu.my and Secretariat by email to info@asiaoceania.org
   2. Secretariat activates online scheduler (section by section) upon receiving the time slot allocation from the section’s President
   
   By 06 Apr 2022
   Conveners complete scheduling online