Funding Application for the Fourth Biennial Women-in-Theory Workshop (WIT)

公共机构正在组织第四次两年期妇女理论讲习班。该研讨会将于2014年5月在纽约市举行，紧接着第46届ACM计算理论研讨会（STOC 2014），与纽约大学和普林斯顿大学合作。研讨会的目标受众是理论计算机科学（TCS）领域的研究生。 由于全世界TCS的女性教职员工、研究人员和学生的总人数很少，讲习班有两个目标。 第一个是通过邀请主要的女性研究人员介绍其研究课题的教程，向学生参与者提供一个令人振奋的教育方案。第二个目标是提供一个极好的机会，将来自全国和国际不同机构的女学生聚集在一起，以培养亲情和同志情谊，并通过让高级和初级教师和工业研究人员出席，提供接触这一领域榜样的机会。 本次研讨会的形式包括十多个技术教程、一个非技术讲座、一个学生剩余部分和一个小组讨论。前三个理论女性研讨会受到了与会者和TCS研究社区的极大热情。美国各大学的女学生对今年的讲习班反应热烈。 自2008年第一次研讨会以来，PI收到了压倒性的积极反馈，许多参与者已经成长为成功的研究人员。这些都证明了讲习班正在实现其帮助妇女在TCS中取得更大成功的主要目标。

The PIs are organizing the 4th Biennial Women-in-Theory Workshop. This workshop is to take place in New York City in May 2014 immediately before the 46th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2014), in coordination with New York University and Princeton University. The intended audience of the workshop is graduate students in the field of theoretical computer science (TCS). Motivated by the low overall number of female faculty members, researchers, and students in TCS world wide, the workshop has two goals. The first is to deliver an invigorating educational program to the student participants by inviting leading female researchers to present tutorials of their research topics. The second is to provide an outstanding opportunity to bring together women students from different institutions across the country and internationally, so as to foster a sense of kinship and camaraderie, and to provide access to role models in this area by having senior and junior faculty members and industrial researchers present. The format of this workshop consists of more than ten technical tutorials, one non-technical talk, a student rump session, and a panel discussion.The first three Women-in-Theory workshops were greeted with great enthusiasm both from the participants and from the TCS research community at large. Response has been strong for this year's workshop from female students at universities across the United States. Since the first workshop in 2008, the PIs have received overwhelmingly positive feedback and many participants have matured to be successful researchers. These serve as testimonials that the workshop is accomplishing its primary goal of helping women become more successful in TCS.