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REGISTRATION FOR 2007 NOW CLOSED!

What: Conference for Undergraduate Women in Computer Science
When: Oct 5-7 2007

Sponsored by Women@SCS, Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft Research

This conference is research focused and will provide opportunities for undergraduate women to work on exploratory problems in teams led by researchers from industry and academia.

Participants will also be able to:

• meet others who share their curiosity and interest in computer science
• discuss their research
• tackle research questions
• explore the research experience in academia and industry
• present a talk and/or poster: great for first-timers!
  

Undergraduate Presenters

Conference participants will also have a chance to learn about life in graduate school from the perspective of current women graduate students representing CS departments from across the country.

Keynote speakers will include:

• Frances Allen, winner of the 2006 Turing Award
  IBM Fellow Emerita, T. J. Watson Research Center
• Jennifer Tour Chayes,
  Research Area Manager for Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Microsoft Research
• Jeannette Wing,
  President's Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, and Assistant Director of CISE, National Science Foundation

We welcome information about computer science REU programs, internships and graduate programs to distribute to the participants. See Resources

Conference activities will occur on the Carnegie Mellon campus.

General questions? Send email