{"id":27,"date":"2018-04-10T19:57:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T19:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcswomen.wordpress.com\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2023-02-19T20:39:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T20:39:13","slug":"inaugural-tcs-women-meeting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sigact.org\/tcsforall\/inaugural-tcs-women-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural TCS Women Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first TCS Women meeting was held part of <a class=\"customize-unpreviewable\" href=\"http:\/\/acm-stoc.org\/stoc2018\/index.html\">STOC 2018 TheoryFest: 50th\u00a0Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0organized by\u00a0<a class=\"customize-unpreviewable\" href=\"https:\/\/cs-people.bu.edu\/sofya\/\">Sofya Rashondnikova<\/a>\u00a0(Boston University),\u00a0<a class=\"customize-unpreviewable\" href=\"https:\/\/barnasaha.net\/\">Barna Saha<\/a>\u00a0(University of Massachusetts Amherst) and\u00a0<a class=\"customize-unpreviewable\" href=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/virgi\/\">Virginia Vassilevska Williams<\/a>\u00a0(MIT).<\/p>\n<p>The event consisted of a panel of distinguished women researchers in the field of TCS, a women lunch and a poster session jointly organized with STOC poster session.<\/p>\n<p>Due to generous sponsorship of Google, Microsoft and NSF, TCS Women provided <strong>travel scholarships<\/strong> to twenty eight women researchers from across the globe to attend STOC TheoryFest.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Date:<\/strong>\u00a0June 26th, 2018<\/li>\n<li><strong>Venue:<\/strong>\u00a0Los Angeles, CA as part of STOC Theory Fest<\/li>\n<li><strong>Organizers:<\/strong>\u00a0Sofya Rashodnikova (BU), Barna Saha (UMass Amherst), Virginia Vassilevska Williams (MIT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>TCS Women Panel<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-82 \" src=\"https:\/\/sigact.org\/tcswomen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/valerie.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"308\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie King (University of Victoria)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_81\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-81 \" src=\"https:\/\/sigact.org\/tcswomen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/nina.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"305\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-81\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nina Mishra (Amazon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-80 \" src=\"https:\/\/sigact.org\/tcswomen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ronitt.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"195\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronitt Rubinfeld (MIT)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79\" style=\"width: 247px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-79 \" src=\"https:\/\/sigact.org\/tcswomen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/virgi.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigact.org\/tcsforall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/virgi.jpeg 224w, https:\/\/sigact.org\/tcsforall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/virgi-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia Vassilevska Williams (MIT)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-78\" src=\"https:\/\/sigact.org\/tcswomen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cynthia-1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigact.org\/tcsforall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cynthia-1.jpg 373w, https:\/\/sigact.org\/tcsforall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cynthia-1-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Dwork (Harvard University)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_77\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-77 \" src=\"https:\/\/sigact.org\/tcswomen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/yael.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigact.org\/tcsforall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/yael.jpeg 180w, https:\/\/sigact.org\/tcsforall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/yael-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yael Kalai (Microsoft Research)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first TCS Women meeting was held part of STOC 2018 TheoryFest: 50th\u00a0Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing\u00a0\u00a0organized by\u00a0Sofya Rashondnikova\u00a0(Boston University),\u00a0Barna Saha\u00a0(University of Massachusetts Amherst) and\u00a0Virginia Vassilevska Williams\u00a0(MIT). 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