I received a request to call attention to the following, but will refrain from sharing it with the Theory of Computing blog aggregator since others have already done so (for example here).
In a challenge to my long-standing view of academic life as a hybrid of Herman Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game and Paul Erdős’ itinerant-scholar lifestyle, STOC 2018 will be the first STOC to provide subsidised, pooled childcare. (OK, this is not completely new. Dagstuhl has had this facility for some years, and the earliest example I can recall is the year 2000 British Colloquium on Theoretical Computer Science, although I don’t recall it being subsidised.)
On a related note, I was separately circulated an email advertising a TCS women event at STOC. Features include a panel of senior female researchers, a women’s lunch, and a research rump session. They have also secured funding to sponsor travel scholarships for women to attend STOC (see the web site); the organizers would like to see increase in women participation from outside of USA.
In a challenge to my long-standing view of academic life as a hybrid of Herman Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game and Paul Erdős’ itinerant-scholar lifestyle, STOC 2018 will be the first STOC to provide subsidised, pooled childcare. (OK, this is not completely new. Dagstuhl has had this facility for some years, and the earliest example I can recall is the year 2000 British Colloquium on Theoretical Computer Science, although I don’t recall it being subsidised.)
On a related note, I was separately circulated an email advertising a TCS women event at STOC. Features include a panel of senior female researchers, a women’s lunch, and a research rump session. They have also secured funding to sponsor travel scholarships for women to attend STOC (see the web site); the organizers would like to see increase in women participation from outside of USA.