Deadlines & milestones

Date	Task	Group
11 January – 14 February 2018	Call-for-sessions: public can suggest sessions in the various Programme Groups	Community
01–20 March 2018	Session Programme Finalization based on the Call-for-Sessions suggestions	SOC
21 March 2018	Call-for-abstracts, start of the abstract submission	Community
16 May 2018, 13:00 CEST	Abstract submission deadline	Community
17–23 May 2018	Convener Part 1 + 2 (SOI + II) Convener Part 1: acceptance, rejection, transfer of abstracts to other sessions (no oral/poster selection at this stage), additional upload of abstracts by conveners are possible Convener Part 2: Session Tagging, i.e. conveners communicate wishes and requirements regarding room size, time blocks, no-overlap requests, to SOC	Conveners
23–28 May 2018	PCI (SOC Part 1): evaluation of rejected and unassigned contributions, finalization of sessions that have not completed Convener Part 1 task (SOI)	SOC
29 May 2018	Letter of acceptance (information to authors if their abstract is accepted and in which session, no information about oral or poster decision)	Copernicus
31 May–6 June 2018	PCII (SOC Part 2): assigning of time blocks, rooms, days and exact session times to each session on the basis of convener requests and consistency for the programme	SOC
7–18 June 2018	Convener Part 3 (SOIII): oral/ poster selection (according to assigned timeblocks), ordering of presentations	Conveners
19–25 June 2018	PCIII (SOC Part 3): finalization of programme	SOC
26 June 2018	Letter of schedule (information to authors with precise information regarding session, time and length of presentation, etc.) Upload of conference programme on website	Copernicus
5 July 2018	Deadline for presenter registration	Authors
13 July 2018	Deadline for information to be included in programme book (welcome text, adverts, etc.)	SOC
15 August 2018	Deadline for letter of invitation requests	Community
31 August 2018	Deadline for daily programme	Conveners
16–21 September 2018	European Planetary Science Congress 2018	Community