CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshop CMW-R and CMW-L

CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshop

CMW-R (Research) and CMW-L (Labs)
June 4-5, 2011
San Jose Convention Center
San Jose, California

Agenda 

List of Speakers

General Chairs

Manuela Veloso CMW-R track		Tessa Lau CMW-L track

The goal of the CRA-W Workshop on Research Career Mentoring for Women in Computer Science and Engineering (CMW-R/CMW-L) is to provide mentoring activities targeting women senior graduate students and women just starting as industrial researchers or professors. The workshop is structured to provide critical information about the culture of and content required for professional research, and contacts with successful role models and mentors.

The workshop will cover a variety of topics targeted to "junior" academic, industrial, and national laboratory researchers.

For junior academic researchers and graduate students: we will have panels on getting a job and negotiating a start-up package, getting funding, and surviving the tenure process.

For junior industrial and national laboratory researchers: we will have panels on getting started in a research lab, being successful both within one's institution and in one's research community, and planning one's career.

For teachers or potential teachers: we will have an optional Sunday afternoon Teaching Workshop that will provide essential skills and strategies for teaching computing, including  learning/teaching styles and implementation; course planning, execution, and assessment; effective and efficient course management and delivery. 

See the agenda  for more details on topics to be covered at the workshop.

The 2011 CMW workshop will be co-located with the FCRC 2011 conference.

The fee for attending the workshop is $375 if you register early (Early Registration Fees apply until May 16; $400 for late registration). The fee covers the cost of the facilities and meals provided during the workshop. Each participant is responsible for her own travel arrangements and expenses (airfare, local travel, and room costs, etc.)

The workshop will be held at the

We are pleased to announce there will be a limited number of travel scholarships available for participants.  Travel support deadline is March 25.  Notification of travel scholarships will be made by April 15. 

Selection Criteria for Support to Attend Workshop 

The main criteria that will be used to determine who will be given financial support to attend the workshop are as follows:

1. Applicant's contribution to the workshop's goal of advancing career development for early-career female researchers in academia and industry/government labs.
2. Financial need of applicant.
3. Maximizing the number of participants at the workshop.
4. Applicant has not attended one of these kinds of workshops in the past five years.
5. The applicant is either a student at a U.S. degree-granting institution or an employee of a research laboratory in the U.S.

Financial support will cover expenses, up to a maximum of $1,000, related to

• travel (airfare and ground transportation)
• workshop registration
• hotel accommodations

The 2011 Career Mentoring Workshop is sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation.