Call for TCS Job Market profiles

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:

• a platform to job-seekers to advertise their credentials and
• an interface for institutions/individuals with open positions to find prospective candidates.

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).

CRA and CCC announce Computing Innovation Fellows 2020

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/.

TCS job market profiles

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.

A solicitation for TCS job market profiles

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:

• Provide a platform to job-seekers to advertise their credentials.
• Provide an interface for institutions/individuals with open positions to find prospective candidates.

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.

Travel funding for FOCS 2019

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.

Simons Institute 2015-16 Research Fellowships

The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley invites applications for Research Fellowships for academic year 2015-16.

Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowships are an opportunity for outstanding junior scientists (at most 6 years from PhD by Fall 2015) to spend one or both semesters at the Institute in connection with one or more of its programs.  The programs for 2015-16 are as follows:

* Fine-Grained Complexity and Algorithm Design (Fall 2015)
* Economics and Computation (Fall 2015)
* Counting Complexity and Phase Transitions (Spring 2016)
* Algorithmic Challenges in Genomics (Spring 2016)

Applicants who already hold junior faculty or postdoctoral positions are welcome to apply. In particular, applicants who hold, or expect to hold, postdoctoral appointments at other institutions are encouraged to apply to spend one semester as a Simons-Berkeley Fellow subject to the approval of the postdoctoral institution.

Further details and application instructions can be found at http://simons.berkeley.edu/fellows2015.  Information about the Institute and the above programs can be found at http://simons.berkeley.edu.

Deadline for applications: 15 December, 2014.

Alistair Sinclair
Associate Director, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

Simons Institute Research Fellowships for Summer 2015 Crypto Program

The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley invites applications for Research Fellowships for the research program on Cryptography that will take place in Summer, 2015.  These Fellowships are open to outstanding junior scientists (at most 6 years from PhD by 1 May, 2015).

Further details and application instructions can be found at http://simons.berkeley.edu/fellows-summer2015.  General information about the Institute can be found at http://simons.berkeley.edu, and about the Cryptography program at http://simons.berkeley.edu/programs/crypto2015.

Deadline for applications: 30 September, 2014.

Fellowships for Simons Institute program on Cryptography

From Alistair Sinclair (Associate Director, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing):

The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley invites applications for Research Fellowships for the research program on Cryptography that will take place in Summer, 2015.  These Fellowships are open to outstanding junior scientists (at most 6 years from PhD by 1 May 2015).

Further details and application instructions can be found at http://simons.berkeley.edu/fellows-summer2015.  General information about the Institute can be found at http://simons.berkeley.edu, and about the Cryptography program at http://simons.berkeley.edu/programs/crypto2015.

Deadline for applications: 30 September, 2014.

Resumption of NSF Operations

See letter below from Farnam Jahanian about the resumption of operations at NSF.   In addition to the revised deadlines listed in his email, the new deadline for Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships is tomorrow, October 25.

From: CISE Announcements [mailto:CISE-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.NSF.GOV] On Behalf Of Jahanian, Farnam

Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 8:38 AM
To: CISE-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.NSF.GOV
Subject: Resumption of Operations at NSF – Update from CISE

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to resume normal operations, and look forward to working with the community in advancing our research and education mission.  NSF is currently operating under a Continuing Resolution (CR) that will fund the federal government through January 15, 2014.

In our efforts to resume our normal operations and to meet stringent deadlines on several programs, we are working to establish priorities and create guidance for all activities. It is our priority to focus on re-establishing core functions, such as receiving, reviewing and awarding/declining proposals, as well as oversight and management of existing awards.

Important information regarding the resumption of operations at NSF is posted on the NSF website at: http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/postshutdown.jsp.

This site currently includes an important notice issued by Acting NSF Director Cora B. Marrett, a FastLane Advisory, FAQs on revised proposal due dates, and the revised proposal due date listing.

A few important items to note:

• NSF systems, including FastLane, are up and operational.
• NSF has revised proposal due dates for funding opportunities with dates between October 1 – 25, 2013. For the complete listing of revised proposal due dates, please visit NSF’s Resumption of Operations website.  Changes to CISE program due dates include:

• The Smart and Connected Health Exploratory (EXP) proposals for this year are now due November 6, 2013.
• Research Experience for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science are due on November 6, 2013.
• Proposals for Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS: JUNO) Japan-US Network Opportunity: R&D for “Beyond Trillions of Objects” are due November 6, 2013.
• The Secure and Trustworthy Computing MEDIUM project proposals are now due November 1- 12, 2013.
• The CISE Core Programs MEDIUM project proposals are due November 1- 12, 2013 for each division (Computing and Communication Foundations, CCF; Computer and Network Systems, CNS; and Information and Intelligent Systems, IIS).

• Project reports that became overdue during the shutdown should be submitted via Research.gov as soon as possible.
• All panels that were canceled due to the shutdown will be rescheduled to a later date by the cognizant Program Officer.
• Continuing Grant Increments (CGIs) that could not be processed during the shutdown are being issued by NSF as early as practicable.

NSF will continue to provide updates as more information becomes available.  Please direct questions regarding specific funding opportunities to the cognizant NSF program officer(s) identified in the funding opportunity.  General shutdown questions should be directed to policy@nsf.gov.

Thank you for your support as we recover from the funding lapse.  We are fully committed to restoring normal operations as quickly as possible.

Sincerely,

Farnam

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Farnam Jahanian
NSF Assistant Director for CISE
National Science Foundation

tel: (703) 292-8900

email: fjahania@nsf.gov

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

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Simons Institute Fellowships

The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley invites applications for Research Fellowships for academic year 2014-15.

Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowships are an opportunity for outstanding junior scientists (up to 6 years from PhD by Fall 2014) to spend one or two semesters at the Institute in connection with one or more of its programs.  The programs for 2014-15 are as follows:

* Algorithmic Spectral Graph Theory (Fall 2014)
* Algorithms and Complexity in Algebraic Geometry (Fall 2014)
* Information Theory (Spring 2015)

Applicants who already hold junior faculty or postdoctoral positions are welcome to apply. In particular, applicants who hold, or expect to hold, postdoctoral appointments at other institutions are encouraged to apply to spend one semester as a Simons-Berkeley Fellow subject to the approval of the postdoctoral institution.

Further details and application instructions can be found at http://simons.berkeley.edu/fellows2014.  Information about the Institute and the above programs can be found at http://simons.berkeley.edu.

Deadline for applications: 15 December, 2013.