scientific communication in astronomy

Effective communications skills, both oral and written are an essential part of scientific research. Whether you want to write a peer review article, a telescope proposal, or a research grant application, the outcome will depend critically on your ability to write with clarity, ambition and authority.

The purpose of the school is to help PhD students and young postdocs to learn how to effectively present their scientific results, both while preparing publications and when giving talks at conferences or seminars in other institutes. In addition to paper writing we will also have sessions dedicated to the preparation of observational proposals: we will address all aspects from proposal preparation, to submission and evaluation for both ground based and space based facilities. Finally, since job applications and research grants applications also require good communication skills, we will have sessions devoted to writing CVs, research statements and presentation letters.

The school will be held in english, in person, and organized with lectures in the morning and practical hands-on session in small groups in the afternoon. The SOC will help the lecturers for these exercise sessions.

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Topics of the workshop:

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• Writing an effective scientific paper

• Giving talks and seminars

• Preparing a successful observational proposal

• Preparing a job application (research statement, cv, letters)

• Preparing a successful grant application

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