CATCS REPORT STOC 2015 BUSINESS MEETING Salil Vadhan

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.

Boaz Barak Paul Beame Moses Charikar Petros Drineas Jeff Erickson Piotr Indyk Current Members David Johnson Mohan Paturi Dana Randall Tim Roughgarden (chair 8/1+) David Shmoys Salil Vadhan (chair until 7/31)

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Current & upcoming efforts I Recruiting people to serve at NSF & other funding-related places 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 Collecting data on funding trends & growth of TCS community Looking at state of TCS job market and ways to help Some fields (math, physics) have online “rumor mills” that create more transparency about state of market (e.g. who has interviewed where)

Current & upcoming efforts II Collecting data on growth of TCS & funding trends Assistance with award nominations Ask us if you need advice or help preparing a nomination package Report documenting external impact of TCS Grant writing resources Planned guest blog posts on funding outside the US We welcome your suggestions!

Upcoming Deadlines I 6/30: Simons Institute proposals for 2017 Programs 7/21: NSF CAREER program Late summer: Simons Investigator call for nominations sent to universities Late summer: Simons Fellows in Math (sabbatical funding) Early fall: Simons Collaborations in Math & Physical Sciences 9/10: ACM Fellow Nominations 9/16: NSF Medium proposals to Algorithmic Foundations, Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace, and other programs

Upcoming Deadlines II 9/24: NSF Large proposals to Algorithmic Foundations, Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace, and other programs 9/30: NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) 10/19: NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship TBD (late Oct): NSF Graduate Research Fellowships 10/31: ACM Dissertation Award 11/1: AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships 11/30: Many ACM Awards (Turing, Hopper, Kanellakis, Disting. Service) Rolling or 12/1: CCC Visioning Workshops (eg Theoretical Foundations of Social Computing 6/29-6/30)

Upcoming Deadlines III 12/7: NSF CISE-MPS Interdisciplinary Faculty Program in Quantum Information (sabbatical support) 1/27: NSF Exploiting Parallelism & Scalability (XPS) 2/8: NSF Algorithms in the Field (AitF) TBD: Simons Award for Graduate Students in TCS 3/9: NSF CISE Expeditions in Computing Preliminary Proposals TBD (April?): Symposia at 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting TBD (May?): NSF BIGDATA program Any time: DIMACS special focus proposal