Programme

The purpose of organising an "Astronomy and Astrophysics School" is to teach students how to express their scientific results through correct and efficient science writing. In other words: how to write scientific papers for different forums (journals, proceedings, thesis manuscripts, etc.).

Each morning and afternoon session will contain lectures or workshops. Every lecture will be followed by an open discussion session, where students can address any issues related to the topics treated in the lectures. A daily discussion session "students only" will be organised, and the students will be given ample opportunity to raise questions emanating from these sessions.

All lecturers have long professional experience in publishing, editorial matters, scientific writing and library and database management.

Students can also bring manuscripts and drafts of papers and seek advice, or present their own research in poster format. Posters will not be included in the Proceedings book.

Participants are beginning PhD, Postdocs students with little experience in scientific writing. But due to limited seating capacity, preference will be given to earlier-in-career students.

The event is not a language learning class, nor does it offer technical training in typesetting and word processing.

Topics to be covered:

• The scientific publishing landscape
• The Astronomy & Astrophysics journal
• Why write papers?
• Scientific writing: The language perspective
• From your paper to VizieR and SIMBAD
• Scientific visual communication
• Ethical issues and good scientific practice
• Writing a scientific paper
• AI tools in scientific writing
• The refereeing process / work of a science editor
• Maximising the impact of your astronomy research: Strategies for promoting your articles
• Producing A&A: The publisher’s view
• Astronomy libraries: gateway to information
• Bibliometrics & open access publishing in Astronomy