Conference: Women-in-Theory Workshop

该奖项支持将于2022年6月在西蒙斯计算理论研究所举办的第七届女性理论研讨会。研讨会的目标受众是理论计算机科学(TCS)领域的研究生。由于塔塔咨询公司全球女性教职员工、研究人员和学生的总体数量较低，该研讨会有两个目标。第一个是通过邀请领先的女性研究人员介绍她们的研究主题的教程，向学生参与者提供一个鼓舞人心的教育计划。第二是提供一个难得的机会，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，并通过高级和初级教员和工业研究人员出席，提供接触这一领域的榜样的机会。这次研讨会的形式包括技术教程、非技术性讲座、学生结尾会和小组讨论，遵循本系列前六个研讨会的模式。最初的六个妇女理论讲习班受到了与会者和整个技术咨询服务研究界的热烈欢迎。自2008年第一次研讨会以来，组织者收到了压倒性的积极反馈，许多参与者已经成熟为成功的研究人员。这些证明了研讨会正在实现其主要目标，即帮助妇女在TCS中取得更大的成功。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports the 7th Women-in-Theory Workshop at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing in June 2022. 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 technical tutorials, a non-technical talk, a student rump session, and a panel discussion, following the model of the first six workshops in this series. The first six Women-in-Theory workshops were greeted with great enthusiasm both from the participants and from the TCS research community at large. Since the first workshop in 2008, the organizers 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.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.