Thursday, July 26, 2018

CATCS Newsletter







Here's an update on some of CATCS's recent activities, along with links to useful resources maintained at TheoryMatters:

1. David Woodruff compiled a list of major awards that are relevant to the
   theoretical computer science community.  Included is a brief
   description of each, a link to the nomination instructions, and
   examples of researchers from TCS and related fields that won the award
   in the past.  See https://thmatters.wordpress.com/tcs-awards-list/.

2. Shuchi Chawla is leading an effort to improve the quality of TCS
   entries on Wikipedia.  She has put together an advice document for
   researchers who want to help and a spreadsheet where you can contribute
   suggestions for entries to be created or improved.  See
   https://thmatters.wordpress.com/2017/05/02/tcs-wikipedia-project/.

3. Ryan O'Donnell collected advice on writing papers for general
   scientific venues like Science, Nature, and PNAS, from a number of TCS
   researchers who have successfully published in these venues in the
   past.  See
   https://thmatters.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/nature-science-pnas-advice.pdf.

4. An oldie but a goodie: examples of successful TCS NSF Career proposals.
   See https://thmatters.wordpress.com/funding-opportunities-and-tips/career-examples-proposalscomments/

See https://thmatters.wordpress.com/ and the affiated sites https://cstheory-jobs.org/ and https://cstheory-events.org/ for still more resources.

Don't forget that this year's TheoryFest is also the 50th anniversary of STOC!  (Happening June 25-29, in Los Angeles.)  See http://acm-stoc.org/stoc2018/ for details.

Finally, I always welcome your suggestions for future CATCS projects.

Tim




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