2016 CRA Career Mentoring Workshop

February 22-23, 2016

Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel
801 North Glebe Road, Arlington, Virginia 22203, United States

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Overview

The biennial Career Mentoring Workshop was offered by the Computing Research Association on February 22 and 23, 2016, at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel in Arlington, V.A.

The workshop consisted of a series of panels and was interspersed with opportunities to network with senior researchers and representatives from government agencies.

There was a reception with the CRA Board of Directors and an interactive meeting with various NSF CISE dignitaries and research-appropriate program directors.

Click here to read a participant’s perspective on the CRA Bulletin.

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February 22, 2016 (Monday)

07:00 AM Registration | Prefunction C
07:30 AM Breakfast | Fitzgerald Ballroom C
08:15 AM Welcome/Overview | Fitzgerald Ballroom DE

Sarita Adve, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dan Grossman, University of Washington
Andrew Bernat, Computing Research Association
Susan Davidson, Computing Research Association Board Chair
08:30 AM Planning Your Research Career | Fitzgerald Ballroom DE

Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines
Michael Franklin, University of California, Berkeley
09:15 AM Career Networking | Fitzgerald Ballroom DE

Kathryn McKinley, Microsoft Research and University of Texas
Greg Morrisett, Cornell University
10:00 AM AM Break | Prefunction DE
10:30 AM Teaching | Fitzgerald Ballroom DE

Dan Grossman, University of Washington
Margo Seltzer, Harvard University
11:15 AM Mentoring and Managing Students | Fitzgerald Ballroom DE

Nancy Amato, Texas A&M
Lise Getoor, University of California, Santa Cruz
12:00 PM Lunch | Fitzgerald Ballrooom C
01:00 PM Preparing a Tenure Dossier | Fitzgerald Ballroom DE

Greg Hager, Johns Hopkins University
Vivek Sarkar, Rice University
01:45 PM Time Management and Family Life | Fitzgerald Ballroom DE

Anne Condon, University of British Columbia
Bobby Schnabel, ACM
02:30 PM Advice from Early Career Faculty | Fitzgerald Ballroom DE

Martha Kim, Columbia University
Emerson Murphy-Hill, North Carolina State University
Paris Smaragdis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
03:30 PM Reception with CRA Board Members and Leadership Summit Participants | Prefunction

February 23, 2016 (Tuesday)

07:00 AM Breakfast | Fitzgerald Ballroom C
08:00 AM CRA Best Practices Memo: Incentivizing Quality and Impact: Evaluating Scholarship in Hiring, Tenure, and Promotion | Fitzgerald Ballroom DE

Fred Schneider, Cornell University
08:30 AM Research Funding Overview | Fitzgerald Ballroom DE

Farnam Jahanian, Carnegie Mellon University
09:00 AM Agency Overviews | Fitzgerald Ballroom DE

Suresh Jagannathan, DARPA
Terry Yoo, NIH
Brent Hailpern, IBM
10:00 AM Break | Prefunction DE
10:15 AM How to Write a Good Proposal | Fitzgerald Ballroom DE

Susanne Hambrusch, Purdue University
Mary Hall, University of Utah
11:00 AM Overview of NSF | Fitzgerald Ballroom DE

Jim Kurose, NSF
11:15 AM Writing a Proposal to NSF | Fitzgerald Ballroom DE

Jan Cuny, NSF
12:00 PM Lunch (on your own) and walk over to NSF
01:30 PM NSF Division Directors Presentations (four parallel sessions) | Room 375 at NSF
01:45 PM NSF Division Directors Presentations (four parallel sessions - same as above) | At NSF
02:00 PM Presentations by NSF Communications Team and Meetings with Program Directors | at NSF
Grad Student Expectations Documents

TA Expectation Document

Expectations List for Developer Liberation Front – Emerson Murphy-Hill, North Carolina State University

Expectations for Group Members – Nancy Amato, Texas A&M University
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