Are you or your institution looking to hire a theoretician? Check out these job market profiles of TCS candidates. Feel free to share widely within your network. This information can also be found under the “TCS Job Market” tab in the menu above.
Candidates on the TCS job market: fill out this form to get your profile added to the list. We will review responses and add them to the list every 2-3 weeks.
CATCS is resuming the effort to collect and disseminate profiles of theory researchers who are going on the job market during the 2022-23 academic year, complementing the job postings collected under the Jobs tab. The goals are to provide:
Candidates can fill out this form, which asks for basic information, graduation date (past or future), cv, bio, research summary, etc.
The responses will be reviewed and, if approved, edited and posted on Theory Matters starting on Oct 15, 2022. There is no deadline, but for responses received after Oct 15, please allow two weeks for review before your profile appears on the website. Responses received by Oct 15 will have summaries published in the following issue of SIGACT News (Dec’22 issue).
Call for Participation
54th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2022) – Theory Fest
June 20-24, 2022
Rome, Italy
The 54th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2022) is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory and will be held in Rome, Italy, Monday June 20 – Friday, June 24, 2022.
STOC 2022 – Theory Fest will feature technical talk sessions, 6 workshops with introductory tutorials, poster sessions, social events, and a special joint session with “Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei”, the oldest and most prestigious Italian academic institution, followed by a reception and a concert at the Academy historic site.
Registration
STOC 2022 registration is available here.
Early registration deadline: April 30th.
Student Travel Grants
Information for student travel grant applications is available here.
Application deadline: April 20th.
STOC 2022 is sponsored by Algorand, Amazon, Apple, Google, IOHK, Microsoft, Sapienza University of Rome.
The Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) have announced a new CI Fellows program that will offer 2 year postdoctoral opportunities in computing starting Fall’20.
The deadline for application is yet to be announced but will be around mid-June 2020, with decisions being made around mid-July 2020 for positions beginning this fall or winter. We will update this post once a deadline is announced. In the meantime, further details can be found at https://cifellows2020.org/.
Earlier this academic year, CATCS started a project to collect the profiles of TCS candidates on the job market this academic year. Those profiles can now be found at this webpage (Updated link; here is the deprecated link.). The webpage offers a limited amount of search functionality, and we are continuing to improve the layout and add features.
If you are at an institution that is hiring in theory, please feel free to use this database and share it with your colleagues as appropriate.
If you are going on the job market and would like to fill out a profile, please use this form. We will periodically update the webpage adding newer profiles.
Many thanks to Nicole Immorlica, Jack Snoeyink, and Chris Umans for putting together the website, and to all those who contributed their profiles. Questions and comments may be emailed to Shuchi Chawla.
CATCS is piloting an effort this year to collect and disseminate profiles of junior theory researchers who are going on the job market during the 2019-20 academic year, complementing the job postings collected under the Jobs tab. The SIGecom community has run a similar effort very successfully for a number of years and we are following their lead. The goals are two-fold:
Candidates looking for theory jobs can fill out this form. The form asks for basic personal information, thesis title, graduation date (past or future), research/teaching interests, bibliographic information for three publications, and allows you to add links to publications and a brief CV.
The responses will be reviewed and, if approved, edited and posted on Theory Matters starting in Nov’19. There is no deadline, but for responses received after Nov 1 please allow two weeks for review before your profile appears on the website. Responses received by Dec 15 will have summaries published in the following issue of SIGACT News.
FOCS 2019 will be held in Baltimore, MA from Nov 9-12, 2019. The early registration deadline is October 9th.
For students interested in attending, Shang-Hua Teng has asked me to relay the message that there is some travel funding available, courtesy of the NSF. For details, see this website. Ignore the deadline on that page, but apply ASAP for full consideration. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Having or presenting papers at FOCS’19 is *not* a prerequisite.
Since there wasn’t time to go through the full CATCS Report during the STOC business meeting last week, here are a few items of note.
And many upcoming deadlines:
A CALL FOR APPLICATIONS IN THE PROF. R. RAHAMIMOFF TRAVEL GRANTS PROGRAM FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS
BSF is announcing the availability of funds for short scientific trips by young American or Israeli scientists to the other country. In 2015 the program will have two calls and each will support 10 trips. Grants will be $4,000 each. The program is open to PhD students doing research that requires facilities or expertise that are not available in their home countries. The deadline for the 1st call for 2015 is May 14, 2015.
The Simons Foundation has put out a call for applications for the Simons Award for Graduate Students in Theoretical Computer Science program. From the solicitation: “These awards will be made to graduate students with an outstanding track record of research accomplishments.” “…the foundation seeks to identify and support these emerging stars by providing additional support to enable them to freely pursue their research interests.” “The award is not intended to replace the regular academic-year support of these outstanding students.”
The awards are for a period of two years (June 2015 to May 2017) for up to $24,000 per year.
Application deadline: February 12, 2015.
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