[TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: First PLDI Workshop on Red-Hot Topics in Faculty Mentoring (RTFM)

[Yao Li]

Call for Participation in the First PLDI Workshop

on

Red-Hot Topics in Faculty Mentoring (RTFM)

(aka Read the Faculty Manual)

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pldi24.sigplan.org/home/rtfm-2024__;!!IBzWLUs!UIz0cIpd-y_l68PSwXRd7keM1vQIJsu0u8d1lgD1hujG5NYdDjI3vgU4xNzLNWIT13stqhQMpobg-yKFcLf9TaRen6h0$ 

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

co-located with PLDI'24 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pldi24.sigplan.org/__;!!IBzWLUs!UIz0cIpd-y_l68PSwXRd7keM1vQIJsu0u8d1lgD1hujG5NYdDjI3vgU4xNzLNWIT13stqhQMpobg-yKFcLf9TdKsI1dq$ > in Copenhagen, Denmark

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.

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.

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.

For the inaugural edition of the RTFM workshop, we are delighted to confirm
the following speakers:


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   Işıl Dillig <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cs.utexas.edu/*isil/__;fg!!IBzWLUs!UIz0cIpd-y_l68PSwXRd7keM1vQIJsu0u8d1lgD1hujG5NYdDjI3vgU4xNzLNWIT13stqhQMpobg-yKFcLf9TSUnLzkm$ > (UT Austin), on running a
   research group
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   Nate Foster <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cs.cornell.edu/*jnfoster/__;fg!!IBzWLUs!UIz0cIpd-y_l68PSwXRd7keM1vQIJsu0u8d1lgD1hujG5NYdDjI3vgU4xNzLNWIT13stqhQMpobg-yKFcLf9TZqnyeEP$ > (Cornell), on doing
   interdisciplinary research
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   Ranjit Jhala <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ranjitjhala.github.io/__;!!IBzWLUs!UIz0cIpd-y_l68PSwXRd7keM1vQIJsu0u8d1lgD1hujG5NYdDjI3vgU4xNzLNWIT13stqhQMpobg-yKFcLf9TTfZLS0u$ > (UCSD), on writing grants
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   Peter Müller
   <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pm.inf.ethz.ch/people/personal/pmueller-pers.html__;!!IBzWLUs!UIz0cIpd-y_l68PSwXRd7keM1vQIJsu0u8d1lgD1hujG5NYdDjI3vgU4xNzLNWIT13stqhQMpobg-yKFcLf9Tf4FXdUN$ > (ETH
   Zurich), on long-term research problem selection


The workshop will also feature three discussion panels on


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   Getting tenure
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   Recruiting and supporting students
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   Work-life balance, service, and teaching


The workshop will conclude with a slot for one-on-one mentoring sessions.

RTFM at PLDI’24 organizers:

Amal Ahmed <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/home/amal/__;!!IBzWLUs!UIz0cIpd-y_l68PSwXRd7keM1vQIJsu0u8d1lgD1hujG5NYdDjI3vgU4xNzLNWIT13stqhQMpobg-yKFcLf9TajD7R46$ > (Northeastern
University)

Derek Dreyer <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://people.mpi-sws.org/*dreyer/__;fg!!IBzWLUs!UIz0cIpd-y_l68PSwXRd7keM1vQIJsu0u8d1lgD1hujG5NYdDjI3vgU4xNzLNWIT13stqhQMpobg-yKFcLf9TRgdS8Wo$ > (MPI-SWS)

Ilya Sergey <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ilyasergey.net/__;!!IBzWLUs!UIz0cIpd-y_l68PSwXRd7keM1vQIJsu0u8d1lgD1hujG5NYdDjI3vgU4xNzLNWIT13stqhQMpobg-yKFcLf9TbbP7YgS$ > (NUS)
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