Inaugural TCS Women Meeting at Symposium of Theory of Computing 2018

该奖项将支持学生参加首届TCS女性活动，该活动将与2018年6月25日至29日举行的第50届计算机械协会（ACM）计算理论研讨会（STOC）共同举办。全世界的科学家现在越来越认识到多样性的必要性。目前正在组织许多与多样性有关的讲习班，目的是建立社区，增进同志情谊，帮助少数群体分享经验和接受指导。虽然少数群体社区的这些讲习班和会议极为重要，但同样重要的是，尽可能将这些会议与主要技术会议安排在同一地点。通过这种方式，少数群体的问题将得到更广泛的研究界的关注。此外，妇女和其他少数群体参加许多会议的人数正在减少。而不是一个愉快的学习经验，参加会议往往成为一个恐吓的经验，他们，特别是在他们的早期职业生涯。STOC是在理论计算机科学（TCS）领域的旗舰年度研究会议之一。STOC的特点介绍涵盖TCS的各个方面，并鼓励论文，扩大理论的范围。此外，同一地点的理论节组织邀请会议与TCS社区以外的最佳理论论文。该奖项将为大约10名学生提供部分支持，以参加这一重要会议以及TCS妇女活动，该活动将包括一个高级女性研究人员小组和一次研究会议，并将为TCS女性研究人员之间的网络建设提供机会。 该奖项将有助于吸引更多代表性不足的群体参与TCS研究，并为他们未来的专业发展提供积极的环境。该奖项反映了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 will support student attendance at the Inaugural TCS Women Event which will be co-located with the 50th Annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), June 25-29, 2018. Scientists all over the world are now increasingly acknowledging the need for diversity. Many diversity-related workshops are being organized with the goal of building community, increasing camaraderie, and helping minorities to share their experience and receive mentoring. While these workshops and meetings of minority communities are extremely important, it is equally important to co-locate these meetings with major technical conferences whenever possible. In this way, the issues of the minorities will get heard by the broader research community. In addition, the number of participants of women and other minorities are dwindling in many conferences. Instead of being an enjoyable and learning experience, attending conferences often becomes an intimidating experience for them, especially in their early career.STOC is one of the flagship annual research conference in the field of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS). STOC features presentations covering all aspects of TCS and encourages papers that broaden the reach of theory. Moreover, the co-located theory festival organizes invited sessions with the best theoretical papers presented outside the TCS community. This award will provide partial support to approximately 10 students to attend this leading conference as well as the TCS Women event which will consist of a panel of senior female researchers and a research rump session, and will provide opportunities for network-building among women researchers in TCS. It will contribute towards attracting more under-represented groups to TCS research and will provide a positive environment for their future professional development.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.