Location: Online
Dates: On four Mondays, 25 January – 22 February 2027
Deadline for applications: Tuesday, December 15
The ACME Proposal Writing School will take place online on four Mondays during the time period 25 January – 22 February 2027. This school is an introductory-level overview of the proposal writing process with a focus on facilities ranging from X-rays to radio.
The school will include an introduction to how proposals are reviewed by Time Allocation Committees (TACs) and how to build science and technical cases. The students will also take part in group work that involves forming mini-TACs to review a set of professionally written proposals to gain experience on the process. The students will take the information obtained from attending the school to write their own observing proposal, which will receive feedback from the expert tutors.
The school is primarily meant for PhD students and junior postdocs in astronomy, who want to gain more experience in writing observing time proposals. However, students/astronomers at any stage of the career are very welcome to apply to the school.
More information on the school and the application form can be found at:
School websiteThe deadline for applications is Tuesday, December 15, and applicants will be notified about the selection by the end of December.