Additional Perspectives From JWST CEERS for Optimizing Roman Space Telescope Surveys

CEERS, the JWST Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science survey program, is the primary JWST "Epoch of Reionization" and galaxy formation and evolution ERS survey intended to serve as a pathfinder for the extragalactic astronomy community, demonstrating the various kinds of science that can be achieved with JWST and much of its varied complement of science instruments in the study of distant galaxies. Among the issues addressed by CEERS are the types of science pursued, optimal observing program design, overcoming challenges in new data processing and analysis techniques, and assessment of the quality of the data and scientific results themselves. CEERS is neither as wide in area as some surveys such as JWST's COSMOS-Web and PRIMER programs, nor as deep as others such as JWST's NGDEEP program, but as a robust and varied ERS program, CEERS can still point the way to emerging scientific priorities of the Roman Space Telescope and effective survey strategies to address them. Several CEERS- based presentations at this conference will concentrate on various ways in which CEERS and other early JWST survey programs have taught us and what we have learned from them both operationally and scientifically. This can help inform the optimization of scientific aims and design of Roman Space Telescope extragalactic surveys and the best ways of implementing and accomplishing them. In this poster, we will expand on some of these issues and offer additional context for designing and optimizing scientifically prioritized Roman Space Telescope surveys.