Women in Theory Workshop 2018

该奖项支持2018年6月在哈佛大学举办的第六届双年展女性理论研讨会。研讨会的目标受众是理论计算机科学（TCS）领域的研究生。由于全球范围内TCS的女性教师、研究人员和学生总数较低，本次研讨会有两个目标。首先是通过邀请顶尖的女性研究人员就她们的研究课题进行辅导，为学生参与者提供一个充满活力的教育项目。第二是提供一个绝佳的机会，将来自全国各地和国际不同机构的女学生聚集在一起，以培养一种亲缘关系和同志情谊，并通过让高级和初级教员和工业研究人员在场，提供接触该领域榜样的机会。本次研讨会的形式包括技术教程、非技术讲座、学生会议和小组讨论，遵循本系列前五次研讨会的模式。前五次妇女理论研讨会受到与会者和整个TCS研究界的极大热情欢迎。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。这些证明了讲习班正在实现其主要目标，即帮助妇女在TCS中取得更大的成功。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 6th Biennial Women-in-Theory Workshop at Harvard University in June 2018. 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 five workshops in this series. The first five 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.