CRA-W Grad Cohort 2010 - Application deadline is 2/1/10

From: Carla Romero <cromero@cra.org>

Date: Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:23 PM
Subject: CRA-W Grad Cohort 2010 - Application deadline is 2/1/10
To: "forsythe@cra.org" <forsythe@cra.org>

Please distribute to eligible grad students.

 

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The 2010 CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop

April 23-24, 2010 in Bellevue, WA

 

Application Deadline: February 1, 2010

http://www.cra-w.org/gradcohort

 

CRA-W is announcing the formation of the 2010 Grad Cohort for Women. Cohort activities will kick off with a workshop April 23-24, 2010 in Bellevue, WA, funded by generous donations from Microsoft and Google. This workshop is the cornerstone of CRA-W's Grad Cohort Program to increase the ranks of senior women in computing by building and mentoring nationwide communities of women during their graduate studies.

 

At the Grad Cohort Workshop, we will welcome new women graduate students in their first year of graduate school into the community of computing researchers and professionals by providing them with a broad range of strategies and role models. Strategies and mentoring for students in their second and third years of graduate school will also be provided. In addition, some of the returning students will be invited to describe their experiences and new insights. All of the students will meet for two days with 10 to 15 senior computing researchers and professionals who will share pertinent information on graduate school survival skills, as well as more personal information and insights about their experiences. The rewards of a research career will be emphasized. The workshop will include a mix of formal presentations and informal discussions and social events. Through this workshop, students will be able to build mentoring relationships and develop peer networks that will form the basis for ongoing activities during their graduate careers.

 

Eligibility:

*Women students in their first, second or third year of graduate school in computer science and computer engineering or a closely related field

Travel expenses, meals and lodging will be provided for students chosen to participate in this program.

For more information and to apply for the Grad Cohort program:

http://www.cra-w.org/gradcohort

 

 

Application deadline is February 1, 2010.

 

Sent on behalf of the CRA-W Grad Cohort Program Chairs:

 

Lori Clarke, University of Massachusetts

Lori Pollock, University of Delaware

 

 

 

Carla Romero

Director of Programs

Computing Research Association

1100 17th St. NW, Suite 507

Washington, DC 20036

202.266.2941 - voice

202.667.1066 - fax

cromero@cra.org

www.cra.org

Financial Aid Available to the PyCon 2010

The Python Software Foundation is proud to present the annual Python community conference, PyCon 2010. PyCon 2010 will be held at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta in downtown Atlanta, Georgia from February 17 through 25. The Python Software Foundations is pleased to annouce that there is an expanded set of grants to help people attend PyCon 2010. If you would like to go to PyCon but can't afford it, the PSF may be able to help you. The deadline is Dec. 18th. Act fast if you want to apply!

http://us.pycon.org/2010/registration/financial-aid/

Quote from an attendee:

This conference gets a bit bigger each year, but the organizers make a great effort to keep the small conference feel. It also has many level-100 tutorials, and is both socially and technically welcoming for py-newbies. Open space sessions (everything from software development to Settlers) and poster sessions happen every night, tutorials run two days prior, and code sprints run for a few days after the conference. It promises to be a great learning and social experience you should not miss.

ACM-W Scholarship Opportunities

ACM-W is pleased to announce a new program that will provide support for women students in Computer Science and related programs (at the undergraduate or graduate levels) who wish to attend research conferences. Exposure to the CS research world can be an important factor in encouraging a student to continue on to the next level  (undergraduate to graduate, Masters to Ph.D., Ph.D. to an industry or  academic position). It is not required that the student be presenting a paper at the conference she attends. In cases of exceptional demonstrable interest in pursuing study and research in CS, high school students will also be considered for conference support.
 
Initially up to 12 such scholarships, of up to $500 each, will be awarded annually. ACM-W also encourages the student's home department to match the scholarship award and recognize the student's achievement locally within their department. Applications will be evaluated in 6 groups each year, in order to distribute awards across a range of conferences, with 1-3 awards given for each group of applications.

To get more information on the application process, go to: http://women.acm.org/scholarships.html

Upcoming deadlines

Application due by Dec. 1, 2009 for conferences in Feb. 1, 2010 - March 31, 2010
Application due by Feb. 1, 2010 for conferences in April 1 - May 31, 2010
Application due by April 1, 2010 for conferences in June 1 - July 31, 2010

CSGSO Student Speaker Series--David Einstein, K-SPR routing

Hello All,

This Friday (11/20) the Computer Science Graduate Student Organization (CSGSO) will have Student Speaker Series at 3pm in the CS Library. All faculty and students are welcome to attend! Light refreshment will be provided.

Speaker: David Einstein

Topic: K-SPR routing

In ad-hoc networks routing can be done by designating some of the nodes as gateway nodes.  The goal of the k-SPR (k- Shortest Path Routing) problem is to find a set of nodes in a graph such that for any two nodes in the graph there exists a shortest path between the two nodes having a gateway node every k or fewer hops.  We show that the the k-SPR problem is NP-Complete on chordal and bipartite graphs, and that it is NP complete for specific values of k on Planar and unit disk graphs.
Joint work with Mike Reick of Drake University.

Biography:

David Einstein received a BS in applied math from UMass Lowell in 1989.  He is currently underemployed by Structured Decisions Corporation where he has worked as an operations researcher for the past 15 years.  He has published a handful of papers on combinatorics, most recently "On Sara's Dove Bar Habit", a combinatorial analysis of domestic harmony, in the November 2009 American Mathematical Monthly.

P.S.

Fellow Students: If you are interested in giving a talk on your research, please drop me an email at byang1 at CS.UML.EDU. We will be happy to assist you.

Thank you,

Beibei (Betty) Yang
CSGSO President

Fwd: 2010 Games 4 Girls Programming Competition

FYI

Beibei (Betty) Yang
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lowell MA 01854
Email: byang1[at]cs[dot]uml[dot]edu

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From: Harris, LaSonya <lharris2@illinois.edu>
Date: Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Subject: 2010 Games 4 Girls Programming Competition
To:

University of Illinois Computer Science Hosts Video Game Development Contest for College Women

 

The University of Illinois department of computer science is hosting an international video game development competition designed specifically for aspiring female video game developers.  The Games 4 Girls contest invites teams of college-aged women to develop video games for their high school counterparts.

 

The competitions enables aspiring female game developers to get real world collaborative experience in software game development while providing new inspiration to middle- and high-school aged girls.  The contest was conceived in response to research indicating that boys enjoy a relatively greater degree of confidence with computers because they spend more time as children playing computer games. Research suggests that this difference in confidence contributes to the gender imbalance seen within the growing field of Computer Science.

 

Winning teams can earn up to $2500 for their game.

 

What:                Games 4 Girls Competition

 

When:               Registration deadline is December 18, 2009

 

Where:              Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science

                        201 N. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL  61801

 

Contact:            Sonya Harris, Coordinator of Outreach Programs

                        lharris2@illinois.edu

 

Visit http://cs.illinois.edu/outreach/games4girls for more information.

 

G4G on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=45107662416

 

Note:  Total Registration is limited, so please register early.

 

Sonya Harris, Coordinator of Outreach Programs

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1314 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science, MC 258

201 North Goodwin Avenue

Urbana, IL. 61801

Office: 217.244.4493/Fax: 217.244.6073

Cell:  217.898.9120

http://cs.illinois.edu/outreach

 

 

*If you would like for us to visit your class, please contact us - ChicTech Visit*

 

*Applications are now open for the Illinois Aspiration Awards for girls in 9^th-12^th Grades – visit www.ncwit.org/award for more info*

 

*FREE TechJunket Workshop - Nov. 14th from 2p-4p - for all high school students*