[Cs-female-staff] [WICS} upcoming women-in-computing events

[biedl at cs.uwaterloo.ca]

Hi everyone,

in the last few days, I've received multiple announcements of 
women-in-computing events, and I wanted to bundle them all into
one email, as to not flood your inboxes.

So please mark your calendars for:
- April 9: CRA-W Distinguished lecture series at UToronto.
 	Speakers are Margaret Martonosi and Jaime Moreno.
 	Also includes a panel about grad school.
 	(Details below.)
- May 31/June 1: CRA-W Distinguished lecture series here at UW.
 	Speakers are Karen Bennet and Marie desJardins.
 	(Details will be announced in May.)
- Sept 28-Oct 2: Grace Hopper Conference, Georgia, Atlanta
 	See http://gracehopper.org/2010/
 	(Details of how students can apply for funding from WICS will be
 	sent in May.)
- Oct 22/23: Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing, Kingston, Ontario
 	See http://sites.cs.queensu.ca/wisc/ONCWIC/index.html

Therese

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Subject: CRA-W/CDC Distinguished Lectures on April 9th @ 2pm
University of Toronto

You are invited to attend two technical talks part of the
CRA-W/CDC Distinguished Lecture Series on April 9th, 2-4pm in BA1220 at
University of Toronto.

Professor Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University)
"Energy-Efficient Computing: The Role of Parallelism"

Jaime Moreno, Senior Manager, IBM TJ Watson
"Trends and Challenges for High-end and Exascale Computer
Systems"

For abstracts and speakers' bios please see:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=ds2vnp2_0c9wxj2dj

The talks will be followed by a panel discussion about grad life and
research. The panel's focus is increasing the diversity in computing
fields. If you plan to attend the panel, please *RSVP* by *Monday April
5th* here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFM1eHUyVjdhNmhxV3EwdDBFZUZD
THc6MA
The panel will take place in SFB560 at University of Toronto following the
technical talks at 4pm.

This event is sponsored by CRA-W (Computer Research Association's
Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research) and CDC
(Coalition to Diversify Computing).