The early registration deadline for STOC 2013 (June 1-4 in Palo Alto) is this Friday, May 3.
Before the main STOC program begins, there are some other notable events:
From: CISE Announcements [mailto:CISE-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.NSF.GOV] On Behalf Of Jahanian, Farnam
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:20 AM
To: CISE-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.NSF.GOV
Subject: NSF CISE FY2014 Budget Request and Priorities
Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community,
Yesterday, the President delivered the Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 Budget Request to Congress. I am pleased to share with you the key figures from the President’s FY2014 budget request for the National Science Foundation and the CISE Directorate. The Administration is requesting a total of nearly $7.6 billion dollars for NSF, which is an increase of $593 million, or about 8.4 percent, over the FY 2012 NSF Enacted Level. The Request also includes an increase of $85 million, or 9.8 percent, over the FY 2012 Enacted Level for the CISE Directorate, for a total of $950 million. For more information on the NSF FY 2014 budget, see: http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2014/index.jsp.
For more than six decades, NSF has had a profound impact on our Nation’s discovery and innovation ecosystem by funding transformative research that has pushed forward the frontiers of knowledge. As the only Federal agency dedicated to the support of basic research and education in all fields of science and engineering, NSF enables discoveries across a broad spectrum of scientific inquiry. In its mission to promote progress in computer and information science and engineering research, education and infrastructure, CISE will continue to cast a wide net, letting the best ideas surface. We ask you — members of the CISE research, education, and infrastructure community — to send your most transformative ideas to one of CISE’s four divisions – Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI), Computing and Communications Foundations (CCF), Computer and Network Systems (CNS), and Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS).
The CISE FY 2014 Request is shaped by investments in core research, education and infrastructure programs as well as investments in a cross-cutting portfolio that aligns closely with national priorities and societal challenges. In this message, I wish to emphasize four specific areas: 1) CISE foundational research; 2) cross-cutting areas of exploration; 3) advanced cyberinfrastructure; and 4) education and workforce development.
Expansions of CISE Foundational Research: I wish to take this opportunity to reaffirm CISE’s strong commitment to its core programs in all areas of computer and information science and engineering. Specifically, I want to focus on two highly complementary foundational research programs launched last year — Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science and Engineering (BIGDATA) and eXploiting Parallelism and Scalability (XPS). In partnership with all other NSF directorates, CISE is leading the BIGDATA program in its second year. The goal is to address fundamental big data challenges, whose solutions may have wide applicability across a broad range of science and engineering domains. In XPS, the goal is to support groundbreaking research leading to a new era of parallel computing. XPS seeks research re-evaluating, and possibly re-designing, the traditional computer hardware and software stack for today’s heterogeneous parallel and distributed systems and exploring new holistic approaches to parallelism and scalability.
Cross-cutting Investments led by CISE: CISE leads a number of cross-cutting programs, which catalyze foundational research and, in many cases, cross over multiple NSF directorates. Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) is a partnership with the Directorates for Education and Human Resources (EHR), Engineering (ENG), Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), and Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE); it seeks to protect the Nation’s critical infrastructure, including the Internet, from a wide range of threats that challenge its security and reliability. The Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) program (with ENG) aims to deeply integrate computation, communication, and control into physical systems and to engineer complex “smart” cyberphysical systems. All NSF directorates are participating in Cyber-enabled Sustainability Science and Engineering (CyberSEES), which is a partnership with the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC); it aims to advance interdisciplinary research in which the science and engineering of sustainability are enabled by new advances in computing, and where computational innovation is grounded in the context of sustainability problems. Through programs such as the Innovation Corps (I-Corps), CISE will continue to foster public-private partnerships to accelerate transfer of knowledge from lab to practice to benefit society.
CISE is also actively engaging in several cross-agency initiatives and programs. For example, the National Robotics Initiative (NRI) is a partnership with three other agencies — NASA, NIH, and USDA – as well as three other NSF directorates — ENG, EHR, and SBE. The goal is to develop the next generation of collaborative robots that promise to enhance personal safety, health, and productivity. Smart and Connected Health is a newly formed partnership between NSF (including CISE, ENG, and SBE) and six institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH); it aims to accelerate the development and use of innovative approaches that would support the much-needed transformation of healthcare from reactive and hospital-centered to preventive, proactive, evidence-based, person-centered and focused on well-being rather than disease.
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure: Cyberinfrastructure has increasingly become a critical component of the R&D ecosystem. Realizing the enormous potential of cyberinfrastructure requires a long-term, bold, sustainable, and comprehensive approach. In FY 2014, CISE, in partnership with all NSF research directorates, will increase its investments in the Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) programs. The goal is to develop and deploy comprehensive, integrated, sustainable, and secure cyberinfrastructure (CI), accelerating a new era in scientific discovery and engineering innovation, thereby transforming our ability to effectively address and solve the many complex problems facing science and society. NSF-wide investments include Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs), BIGDATA, Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2), and Computational and Data-Intensive Science and Engineering (CDS&E).
With the launch of Stampede and Blue Waters, NSF continues to make significant investments in advanced cyberinfrastructure as well as in research and education networks, including the Campus Cyberinfrastructure – Network Infrastructure and Engineering (CC-NIE) Program and Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI), a virtual laboratory for exploring future internets at scale.
Education and Workforce Development: In FY 2014, it is estimated that CISE will support approximately 20,800 people across the spectrum from undergraduate and graduate students to postdoctoral fellows and senior researchers. CISE reaffirms its commitment to education and workforce programs, including CAREER and Graduate Research Fellowships, which support early-career researchers and contribute to the development of future generations of scientists and engineers. In collaboration with several other Directorates, including EHR and SBE, CISE will grow its investments on research in cyberlearning and online education, promising to integrate advances in technology with advances in what is known about how people learn. This is an important area of inter-disciplinary exploration with enormous potential to transform formal and informal education.
CISE continues its focus on STEM-C Partnerships (formerly, the Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21) program) in order to increase the pool of students and teachers who develop and practice computational and data competencies in a variety of contexts and to prepare more students to pursue degrees in computing, computation, and data-intensive fields of study.
As a field of inquiry, computer and information science and engineering has a rich intellectual agenda. Foundational research seeds new programs that keep our community at the frontiers of knowledge and discovery. I invite you to work with us to ensure that our Nation remains at the forefront of advances in science and engineering research, education, and infrastructure.
Best regards,
Farnam
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Farnam Jahanian
Assistant Director for CISE
National Science Foundation
email: fjahania@nsf.gov
web: http://www.nsf.gov/cise/about.jsp
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As announced in the letter below from Farnam Jahaniam, NSF is looking for a new CCF Division Director to replace Susanne Hambrusch, whose term is ending. This position is an extremely important service to the research community, and provides an opportunity to have a substantial positive impact on the field. Please send me or other members of the search committee the names of any people who would be strong candidates. – Salil
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From: CISE Announcements [mailto:CISE-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.NSF.GOV] On Behalf Of Jahanian, Farnam
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 10:24 AM
To: CISE-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.NSF.GOV
Subject: NSF CISE Directorate Launches Search Committee for CCF Division Director
Dear Colleagues,
CISE is pleased to announce the formation of a search committee for the Director of the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF). Dr. Susanne Hambrusch will be finishing her term as CCF Division Director at the end of this summer – we greatly appreciate her leadership and service to the CISE community over the last three years!
Announcements for the search for her replacement can be found at http://www.nsf.gov/cise/news/2013-CCF-Annoucement.jsp and on USAJOBS at https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/338606700?org=NSF.
Please feel free to contact any of the following search committee members to nominate candidates; self-nominations are also invited:
· Sarita Adve, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, sadve@illinois.edu, Co-chair
· Salil Vadhan, Harvard University, salil@seas.harvard.edu, Co-chair
· Michelle Effros, California Institute of Technology, effros@caltech.edu
· Mary Jane Irwin, Pennsylvania State University, mji@cse.psu.edu
· Christos Papadimitriou, University of California, Berkeley, christos@cs.berkeley.edu
· Moshe Vardi, Rice University, vardi@cs.rice.edu
· Deborah Lockhart, NSF Search Committee Liaison and Deputy Division Director of Information & Intelligent Systems, dlockhar@nsf.gov
Thank you in advance for your help in identifying candidates for this important position. If you have any questions or comments, you are also welcome to contact me directly.
Sincerely,
Farnam Jahanian
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Farnam Jahanian
NSF Assistant Director for CISE
tel: (703) 292-8900
email: fjahania@nsf.gov
The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at Berkeley is looking to fill the first of its two Senior Scientist positions. This position is 50% at the Institute and 50% on campus in the EECS department, and is guaranteed by a full campus position should the Institute’s circumstances change after its initial 10 years. At the Institute, the Senior Scientist will mentor and inspire young scientists, participate in the Institute’s scientific programs, provide continuing scientific leadership, and contribute to the Institute’s scientific planning. The deadline for applications is March 11, 2013. The full announcement of the position, and application details, can be found at simons.berkeley.edu/seniorsci.html
The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley is currently accepting applications for research fellowships for the 2013-14 academic year, during which time the institute will have programs on ”Real Analysis in Computer Science,” “Theoretical Foundations of Big Data Analysis,” ”Evolutionary Biology and the Theory of Computing,” and “Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity.”
These positions are for postdocs and junior researchers, including those who will have a position elsewhere and want to spend a semester at the institute to participate in one of the programs. Note that the deadline is very soon – January 15.
[On the topic of postdocs, the CATCS encourages researchers in the community to explore the possibility of hiring postdocs using grants or other sources of funding this year. With the ending of the CI Fellows program and the previous Simons Foundation postdoctoral program, hosts who can provide funding may have a greater opportunity to recruit excellent candidates.]
The deadline for the NSF Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability (XPS) program is February 20, 2013. This program offers grants of up to $750,000 to “support groundbreaking research leading to a new era of parallel computing.” One of the focus areas is “Foundational Principles,” in which research “should engender a paradigm shift in the ways in which one conceives, develops, analyzes, and uses parallel algorithms, languages, and concurrency.”
Each proposal is required to have “two or more PIs providing different and distinct expertise relevant to the program’s focus areas”, and in particular the program welcomes collaborations between theorists and researchers in other areas of computer science.
The Simons Foundation Division for Mathematics and the Physical Sciences invites applications for the Simons Award for Graduate Students in Theoretical Computer Science program. These awards will be made to graduate students with an outstanding track record of research accomplishments. To be eligible the applicant must be a graduate student who has completed two, three or four years at a U.S. or Canadian institution of higher education. A track record of outstanding results in theoretical computer science is the key criterion. Deadline: February 7, 2013.
Another upcoming Simons deadline (January 31, 2013) is for the Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians program, which will make a large number of grants to accomplished, active researchers who do not otherwise have access to substantial research funding that supports travel and visitors.
This year, the Simons Foundation started the Simons Investigator program, which provides a stable base of support for a selected group of outstanding scientists in theoretical computer science, mathematics, and theoretical physics, enabling them to undertake long-term study of fundamental questions.
For the 2013 Simons Investigators, the Simons Foundation has asked 90 university presidents to provide a nomination up to two nominations in each of the three areas by December 14. Given the short timeline, it may be good to check that your department chair and administration are aware of and pursuing this opportunity.
I have posted the slides from my presentation at FOCS 2012 at http://thmatters.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/catcs-report-focs-2012.pptx
Some items of note:
- We continually need good people from our community to serve at NSF. This is a great service to the TCS community and can be a rewarding experience. If you are potentially interested, please contact us and we can help you find out more about what would be involved.
- There are a number of upcoming deadlines of note:
Message below from CISE directors:
From: CISE Announcements [mailto:CISE-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.NSF.GOV] On Behalf Of Jahanian, Farnam
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 3:12 PM
To: CISE-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.NSF.GOV
Subject: Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Dear Colleagues,
The 2013 National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP) solicitation has been posted at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6201&org=CISE&from=home. The application deadline for CISE and Engineering is November 13, 2012.
GRFP supports outstanding students to purse research-based master’s and doctoral degrees. Applicants must be US citizens or nationals, or permanent resident aliens of the United States by the application deadline. In addition to the solicitation page, http://www.nsfgrfp.org/ contains useful information about the program and available resources.
It is important for the CISE community to expand and mentor our pipeline of future researchers and educators. We are asking you to promote the GRFP opportunity to your students and colleagues and to those in advising positions in your department and at your institution.
Sincerely,
Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
Susanne Hambrusch, Division Director, Computing and Communication Foundations Division (CCF)
Keith Marzullo, Division Director, Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
Howard Wactlar, Division Director, Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS)
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