Women In Theory Workshop

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The purpose of the workshop is two fold: first to deliver an invigoratingeducational program and second is to provide an outstandingopportunity to bring together women students from different departments,across the country (and possibly internationally), so as to foster asense of kinship and camaraderie. And to provide access to the rolemodels in this area by having senior and junior faculty present.Further enhancing this initial relationship with a long time mentoringprogram which will be organized by Anne Condon. Our long term goal isthat these efforts will help widen the pipeline of women doing theory.While there are groups for "Women in Computer Science" and "Women inEngineering" at both the university and national level, our objective increating a "Women in Theory" workshop is to enable meaningful technicalinteractions among the participants. There will be significant overlapin research interests in this group to facilitate a technical programthat 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, JoanFeigenbaum, Yale,Shafi Goldwasser, MIT and Weizmann Institute, Tal Malkin, ColumbiaUniversity, Eva Tardos, Cornell,Lisa Zhang, Bell-LabsWe will also have talks by the participating students and sessionsdevoted to discussions on issues that are especially relevant tofemale scientists such as finding a job and salary negotiations,communicating with your advisor, and work-life balance, etc.