CATCS Report on STOC 2017 Business Meeting with Tim Roughgarden

Committee for the Advancement of Theoretical Computer Science - Mission to interface between the TCS community, funding agencies, and promote TCS. Learn about current members, blog, TCS jobs site, events, and ongoing efforts.

• Theoretical Computer Science
• STOC 2017
• TCS community
• Research communities
• Communication

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1. CATCS REPORT STOC 2017 BUSINESS MEETING Tim Roughgarden

2. What is CATCS? Committee for the Advancement of Theoretical Computer Science Mission: to interface between the TCS community and funding agencies, the public, and other research communities --- promoting TCS and fostering communication.

3. Current Members Boaz Barak Shuchi Chawla Ken Clarkson Nicole Immorlica Anna Karlin Michael Mitzenmacher Ryan O Donnell Dana Randall Tim Roughgarden (chair) Alexander Russell David Shmoys Chris Umans David Woodruff

4. Blog: https://thmatters.wordpress.com/

5. TCS Jobs Site: https://cstheory-jobs.org

6. TCS Events: https://cstheory-events.org/

7. Sample CAREER proposals

8. Current & upcoming efforts (1) Recruiting people to serve at NSF & other funding agencies CCF Division Director AF Program Director rotator position possible DARPA Program Director Come talk to one of us if you are potentially interested! Serving on panels also very important Engaging with NSF, Simons Foundation, Simons Institute, DIMACS, DARPA, AAAS, CCC

9. Current & upcoming efforts (2) Recently completed: Writing tips for general science journals. like Science/Nature/PNAS (Ryan O Donnell) Improving TCS entries on Wikipedia (Shuchi Chawla) Future: advice document for non-NSF funding examples of TCS technology transfer We welcome your suggestions!