Monday, December 7, 2009

News from Center for Computational Intractability

Dear Colleague,

I wish to let you know about certain opportunities at the Center for
Computational Intractability that may interest you or other colleagues
or students from your department. Please forward this email to
departmental mailing list and/or anyone you think may be interested.
To subscribe/unsubscribe to this mailing list, please click the link at the bottom of the mail. Please visit our website http://intractability.princeton.edu/ for further details on center activities,
including streaming videos of all lectures and workshops.

Postdoc positions:
We have several postdoc positions for the 2009-2010 academic year. Application information can be found on
http://intractability.princeton.edu/contact-us/opportunities/ .
Deadline is January 1st, 2010.

Events, workshops:

Women in Theory workshop ("WIT"): June 19-23, 2010. This is the second WIT.
As in WIT'08, the program will consist of first-rate technical
talks by leading female researchers, combined with social activities
and some discussion of relevant issues. See
http://intractability.princeton.edu/blog/2009/11/women-in-theory-2010-workshop/
for more details. Please encourage female graduate students and
outstanding female undergraduate students in your department to apply
to the workshop (deadline is February 1st). Participants in
WIT'08 called it an "inspirational" and "eye-opening" experience.

"Decentralized Mechanism Design,Distributed Computing, and Cryptography". Princeton June 3-4 2010. Currently participation is by invitation only but this may later change.

Pseudorandomness workshop: June 14-18, 2010 at IAS.

Geometric Complexity Theory (a la Mulmuley-Sohni): tentatively scheduled for July 6-8, 2010
at Princeton University. 3-day tutorial on GCT by a team of speakers.

Barriers in Theoretical CS: 5-day workshop around first week of Sept 2010. Like last year's Barriers I workshop, it  will focus on problems where theoretical CS is stuck, but will focus on a different set of sub areas.

Visitor positions:

Funding is available to visit for short and long visits (including sabbaticals). For the former, please contact any of the center members you wish to interact with. For the latter, please send mail to me, preferably by Jan 1.


Best regards,

Sanjeev Arora
Director, Center for Computational Intractability
Princeton, NJ

CCI is a collaborative effort of IAS, NYU, Princeton, and Rutgers.
Funded by the NSF.