Discipline-Specific Workshops

Call for Proposals for Discipline-Specific Workshops: Funding Available

Deadline: June 15, 2010

The Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC) and the Computing Research Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W).are jointly soliciting proposals for discipline-specific mentoring workshops within computing sub-fields. The goal of these discipline-specific mentoring workshops is to increase participation of members of underrepresented groups within a specific research area by providing career mentoring advice and discipline-specific overviews of past accomplishments and future research directions.

Specifically, the workshop should focus on helping young researchers at the graduate or post-graduate level become interested in and knowledgeable about the research and research paradigms of a specific discipline.

Examples of past workshops in this series, as well as other information can be found at: http://www.cra.org/dsw

Prospective workshop organizers are requested to submit a roughly 2-page proposal at least 6-9 months prior to the proposed workshop date. The format for workshop submissions is left unspecified, but we recommend that organizers include at least the following information:

  • Full contact information for the organizers – The team of organizers should include members of underrepresented groups.
  • Research focus area of the workshop
  • Proposed dates for the workshop
  • Proposed workshop agenda
  • Estimated number of workshop participants
  • Advertising plans, especially plans for reaching out to underrepresented groups
  • Past experiences with mentoring of women or underrepresented minorities
  • Proposed budget and requested support from CRA-W and CDC
  • Fundraising plans (Industry, ACM SIG support
  • Sustainability plan: How might this workshop be offered again in the future with reduced or no support from CRA-W/CDC?

Proposals sent in by the June 15 will be notified by July 15. The next deadline for proposals will be January 15, 2010. The CRA-W/CDC Discipline-Specific Workshops are supported by the National Science Foundation.

Project Leaders

  • Juan Gilbert, Auburn University, CDC
  • Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University, CRA-W