The purpose of the workshop is two fold: first to deliver an invigorating educational program and second is to provide an outstanding opportunity to bring together women students from different departments, across the country (and possibly internationally), so as to foster a sense of kinship and camaraderie. And to provide access to the role models in this area by having senior and junior faculty present. Further enhancing this initial relationship with a long time mentoring program which will be organized by Anne Condon. Our long term goal is that these efforts will help widen the pipeline of women doing theory.
While there are groups for "Women in Computer Science" and "Women in Engineering" at both the university and national level, our objective in creating a "Women in Theory" workshop is to enable meaningful technical interactions among the participants. There will be significant overlap in research interests in this group to facilitate a technical program that is interesting to everyone.
List of confirmed technical speakers: Dorit Aharonov, Hebrew University, Shuchi Chawla, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Julia Chuzhoy, TTI, Irit Dinur, Weizmann Institute, Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research, Joan Feigenbaum, Yale, Shafi Goldwasser, MIT and Weizmann Institute, Tal Malkin, Columbia University, Eva Tardos, Cornell, Lisa Zhang, Bell-Labs
We will also have talks by the participating students and sessions devoted to discussions on issues that are especially relevant to female scientists such as finding a job and salary negotiations, communicating with your advisor, and work-life balance, etc.
