Conflict of interest
- Editors and scientific board members may not submit their own talk while they are holding their position. Former editors and board members are welcome to submit.
- Editors or referees should not handle a talk if
- It is given by their student, mentor/mentee or supervisor, or close collaborator.
- A significant portion concerns their own work.
- The parties share a personal relationship.
- The parties are currently employed by the same institution.
- They feel they cannot judge the submission fairly for any reason.
- Editors and referees may declare a conflict of interest without giving a reason.
- Editors and referees will be asked to affirm at the time they accept handling of a talk that they have no conflict of interest.
- Scientific board members should recuse themselves from the final decision concerning a talk when they have a conflict as above.