All meetings at AIP are run under the AIP Code of Conduct and the IAU anti-harassment guidelines to provide everyone a harassment-free experience and to advocate freedom, tolerance, truth, and dignity in science. Anyone who experiences or observes inappropriate behaviour should report this to an LOC member or to the consortium-external ombudsperson Dr. Silva Järvinen.
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The XMM-SSC consortium and meeting organisers welcome everybody and aim at providing a safe and productive meeting environment that fosters the exchange of scientific ideas, provides equal opportunities and treatment for all participants, and is free of harassment and discrimination. Free and open discussion and debate are essential elements of scholarly interaction, and chairpersons, presenters, and all participants are expected to treat others with respect and consideration, to follow venue rules, and to alert staff or security of any dangerous situations or if anyone is in distress. All participants are also expected to abide by standards of scientific integrity and professional ethics.
We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment, whether in person or virtual. Discrimination includes the prejudicial treatment of individuals on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability status, or any other attribute. Harassment includes speech or any behavior, such as but not limited to remarks, both spoken and in other media, bullying, physical contact, stalking, sexual advances or requests for sexual favors, and unwelcome attention, that creates an intimidating, harmful, hostile, offensive, or threatening environment. Please remember that behavior that is acceptable to one person may not be acceptable to another. Also harassment that is intended or delivered in a joking manner is unacceptable.
Reports of discrimination or harassment will be maintained in confidence to the extent that doing so does not compromise the ability to investigate the reported conduct or the rights of others. Individuals violating this policy or making allegations in bad faith may be subject to disciplinary action. The workshop representatives reserve the right to take actions including, but not limited to, removing an individual from a meeting without warning. Retaliation against any person who files a complaint in good faith, or assists in the investigation of such a complaint, is also a violation of this policy and may also be subject to disciplinary action.
Sections of this policy draw heavily on the American Association for the Advancement of Science's policy.
