Table 4.
Descriptive Scialog conference Statistics.
| Conf. | Topic | Type | Date | Participants | Fellows | Fraction returning | Pairs of fellows | Proposals Submitted | Proposals funded | Mean pairwise prior knowledge | Pairs who collaborated (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NES | Negative Emissions Science | Virtual | 2020 | 69 | 60 | 0.92 | 1,770 | 32 | 8 | 0.55 | 4.3 |
| MND | Microbiome, Neurobiology, and Disease | Virtual | 2021 | 61 | 53 | 0.60 | 1,378 | 23 | 6 | 0.25 | 3.6 |
| ABI | Advancing BioImaging | Virtual | 2021 | 63 | 54 | 0.48 | 1,431 | 28 | 10 | 0.20 | 3.1 |
| SLU | Signatures of Life in the Universe | Virtual | 2021 | 63 | 54 | 0.39 | 1,431 | 26 | 8 | 1.02 | 3.2 |
| MZT | Mitigating Zoonotic Threats | Virtual | 2021 | 63 | 54 | 0.48 | 1,431 | 24 | 8 | 0.43 | 4.6 |
| MCL | Molecules Come to Life | In-person | 2015 | 64 | 52 | 0.75 | 1,326 | 20 | 5 | 0.91 | 3.5 |
| TDA | Time Domain Astrophysics | In-person | 2015 | 59 | 49 | 0.78 | 1,176 | 30 | 6 | 2.1 | 4.3 |
| AES | Advanced Energy Storage | In-person | 2017 | 71 | 60 | 0.83 | 1,170 | 35 | 6 | 0.76 | 6.3 |
| CMC | Chemical Machinery of the Cell | In-person | 2018 | 60 | 50 | 0.62 | 1,225 | 24 | 8 | 0.43 | 4.6 |