NSF search for new CCF Division Director

March 12, 2013 By

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

web: http://www.nsf.gov/cise/about.jsp

Filed Under: Deadlines, NSF, positions at funding agencies

NSF Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability (XPS) program

December 20, 2012 By

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.

Filed Under: Deadlines, Funding opportunity, NSF

CATCS Report at FOCS 2012

November 19, 2012 By

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:

•11/30: Many ACM Award Nominations
Filed Under: Deadlines, NSF, reports
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