Applications for attendance at the Women in Theory workshop are due February 29. The Women in Theory (WIT) Workshop is intended for graduate and 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 [...]
May 9, 2011
A lens on the sciences
The workshop on Theory of Computation as a Lens on the Sciences at Berkeley was this weekend. For the three people out there that haven’t seen Christos Papadimitriou’s talk on the same, I recommend it. A follow-up to a focus on the use of theoretical computer science as a methodology for study in seemingly distance fields [...]
August 30, 2010
Announcement: n-th Annual Combinatorial Potlatch 12/11/10 at Western Washington
Last year I spoke at the n-th Annual Combinatorial Potlatch and had a blast. The informal workshop is a great idea; I wish there were more regional events like them. Maybe there are and I just don’t know about them. The n+1-st Annual Combinatorial Potlatch has been announced – I encourage you to go! This [...]
November 23, 2009
nth Combinatorial Potlatch
The Combinatorial Potlatch is a semi-regular (which for last 7 years has been yearly!) one-day workshop in combinatorics held in Cascadia. It is very informal (no name tags!), very relaxed (only three talks!) and runs on next to no funding*. The latest installment was this past weekend in Vancouver, BC, held at Simon Fraser University’s [...]