Women In Theory

I like crossing the imaginary boundaries people set up between different fields—it’s very refreshing. There are lots of tools, and you don’t know which one would work—Maryam Mirzakhani.

Shafi Goldwasser is the director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. She just ran their tenth year celebration. The talks are viewable now on SimonsTV.

Another Conference

Soon she will be running another conference: Women in Theory 2022 from June 7 to June 10. Below is the 2018 group photo:

The Women in Theory (WIT) Workshop is intended for graduate and exceptional undergraduate students in the area of theory of computer science. The workshop will feature technical talks and tutorials by senior and junior women in the field, as well as social events and activities. The motivation for the workshop is twofold. The first goal is to deliver an invigorating educational program; the second is to bring together theory women students from different departments and foster a sense of kinship and camaraderie.

Here are the speakers, along with talk titles for some of them:

• Laurie Weingart
  Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory
  

  The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work.

• Jennifer Chayes
  Associate Provost
  

• Raluca Ada Popa
  Co-directs the RISELab

  

• Kamalika Chaudhuri
  Research Scientist in Meta AI
  
  Challenges in Learning from Out-of-Distribution Data

• Barna Saha
  Associate Professor with Jacobs Faculty Scholar
  

• Elette Boyle
  Director FACT Research Center
  
  Zero-Knowledge Proofs on Distributed Data and Cryptographic Applications

• Gagan Aggarwal
  Google research scientist.
  

• Naama Ben-David
  Postdoctoral researcher
  
  Fast and Fair Lock-Free Locks

• Kshipra Bhawalkar
  Google Research at Mountain View
  
  Simple Mechanisms for Rich Advertising Auctions

Open Problems

Some of the talk titles have appeared while we were composing this post. Check out the Simons site for current information.