The Bianca Garilli School: Scientific Communication in Astronomy
Dear Colleagues, this is the second announcement of the:
The Bianca Garilli School Scientific Communication in Astronomy 3rd edition
October 12-17, 2025
The school will be hosted by Centro Universitario di Bertinoro, Italy. 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. We will also discuss proposals for computational time. 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, organized with lectures in the morning and practical hands-on sessions in small groups in the afternoon.
Topics of the workshop include: - Writing an effective scientific paper; - Giving talks and seminars; - Preparing a successful observational proposal - Preparing a successful computational time proposal - Preparing a job application (research statement, cv, letters); - Preparing a successful grant application.
Participants will have the chance to shortly present their works during the sessions dedicated to "public speaking".
Registration is now open, and we encourage you to register as soon as possible, as places are limited. Details on the conference fee and accommodation costs are available at the links below.
Lecturers: Henri Boffin (ESO) Rubina Kotak (A&A Editor, University of Turku) Alessandro Papitto (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Roma) Ferdinando Patat (Head of the Observing Programmes Office, ESO) Tiago Castro (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste) SOC members (lectures and hands on sessions)
SOC: Laura Pentericci, Silvia Piranomonte, Andrea Melandri, Enzo Brocato, Adriana Gargiulo, Paola Santini, Roberta Tripodi.
More information at the following link: https://andymelandri.wixsite.com/scia2025
Registration (deadline: June 15, 2025) form is at this link: https://forms.gle/ytRERPbHnbF8zAQP9
For any questions, feel free to contact us at: laura.pentericci@inaf.it We look forward to welcoming you to Bertinoro!
Kind regards, The Bianca Garilli School SOC
