<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-9a20d661-7fff-cfc7-56a9-4b3bf983ad89"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Call for Participation in the First PLDI Workshop</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">on </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Red-Hot Topics in Faculty Mentoring (RTFM)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">(aka Read the Faculty Manual)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pldi24.sigplan.org/home/rtfm-2024__;!!IBzWLUs!UIz0cIpd-y_l68PSwXRd7keM1vQIJsu0u8d1lgD1hujG5NYdDjI3vgU4xNzLNWIT13stqhQMpobg-yKFcLf9TaRen6h0$" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://pldi24.sigplan.org/home/rtfm-2024</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Tuesday, June 25, 2024</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">co-located with </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pldi24.sigplan.org/__;!!IBzWLUs!UIz0cIpd-y_l68PSwXRd7keM1vQIJsu0u8d1lgD1hujG5NYdDjI3vgU4xNzLNWIT13stqhQMpobg-yKFcLf9TdKsI1dq$" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">PLDI'24</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> in Copenhagen, Denmark</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We believe our community has come a long way in acknowledging that junior researchers need as much mentoring as they can get to prepare them for future jobs and help them succeed. The PLMW workshop series has made it possible for us to talk openly with students about the challenges and stresses facing graduate students: problems with advisors, paper rejections, mental health, and career planning. However, the same can’t be said about the challenges of being faculty: many junior faculty don’t feel comfortable discussing their doubts or asking for advice about how to manage a research group or build a tenure case, and not every junior professor is lucky enough to have a suitable mentor at their own institution to ask for help.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for full-time academics to comfortably share their experience in non-technical aspects related to faculty life. Not all such experiences are positive. Sometimes things don’t work out: PhD students change advisors, grants are rejected, topics go out of fashion. We believe many of the not-so-junior members of the community would love to learn about how “the magic is done” in other research groups, and what are the non-technical ingredients that enable long-term successful research and a happy work environment. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The workshop is targeting academic faculty of any seniority level, as well as senior PhD students and postdocs who have accepted faculty positions but have not officially started yet. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For the inaugural edition of the RTFM workshop, we are delighted to confirm the following speakers:</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cs.utexas.edu/*isil/__;fg!!IBzWLUs!UIz0cIpd-y_l68PSwXRd7keM1vQIJsu0u8d1lgD1hujG5NYdDjI3vgU4xNzLNWIT13stqhQMpobg-yKFcLf9TSUnLzkm$" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Işıl Dillig</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (UT Austin), on running a research group</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cs.cornell.edu/*jnfoster/__;fg!!IBzWLUs!UIz0cIpd-y_l68PSwXRd7keM1vQIJsu0u8d1lgD1hujG5NYdDjI3vgU4xNzLNWIT13stqhQMpobg-yKFcLf9TZqnyeEP$" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Nate Foster</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (Cornell), on doing interdisciplinary research</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ranjitjhala.github.io/__;!!IBzWLUs!UIz0cIpd-y_l68PSwXRd7keM1vQIJsu0u8d1lgD1hujG5NYdDjI3vgU4xNzLNWIT13stqhQMpobg-yKFcLf9TTfZLS0u$" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Ranjit Jhala</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (UCSD), on writing grants</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pm.inf.ethz.ch/people/personal/pmueller-pers.html__;!!IBzWLUs!UIz0cIpd-y_l68PSwXRd7keM1vQIJsu0u8d1lgD1hujG5NYdDjI3vgU4xNzLNWIT13stqhQMpobg-yKFcLf9Tf4FXdUN$" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Peter Müller</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (ETH Zurich), on long-term research problem selection</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The workshop will also feature three discussion panels on</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Getting tenure</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Recruiting and supporting students</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Work-life balance, service, and teaching </span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The workshop will conclude with a slot for one-on-one mentoring sessions.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">RTFM@PLDI’24 organizers: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/home/amal/__;!!IBzWLUs!UIz0cIpd-y_l68PSwXRd7keM1vQIJsu0u8d1lgD1hujG5NYdDjI3vgU4xNzLNWIT13stqhQMpobg-yKFcLf9TajD7R46$" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Amal Ahmed</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (Northeastern University) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://people.mpi-sws.org/*dreyer/__;fg!!IBzWLUs!UIz0cIpd-y_l68PSwXRd7keM1vQIJsu0u8d1lgD1hujG5NYdDjI3vgU4xNzLNWIT13stqhQMpobg-yKFcLf9TRgdS8Wo$" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Derek Dreyer</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (MPI-SWS) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ilyasergey.net/__;!!IBzWLUs!UIz0cIpd-y_l68PSwXRd7keM1vQIJsu0u8d1lgD1hujG5NYdDjI3vgU4xNzLNWIT13stqhQMpobg-yKFcLf9TbbP7YgS$" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Ilya Sergey</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (NUS) </span></p></span></div></div></div></div></div>