DCS hosts an informal group of female graduate students, post-docs, and faculty from the Computer Science Department at UofT. We have monthly lunches, and a mailing list you may wish to join if you are not already on it. Contact us here to be added to the list.
*DCS' Women in Computer Science are pleased to be co-sponsoring the 2011 Ontario Celebration of Women In Computing.*
Meetings
During our monthly lunches, we socialize and hang out together, but often we pick a topic of interest and discuss it among ourselves, or invite someone to talk about an interesting topic or idea.
Some of the topics we've discussed in the past:
- Mentoring
- Reports from students about their experience at Grace Hopper/CRA-W grad cohort
- A day in the life of a female faculty member
- Attracting women into computer science
- Female scholar retention
- Tips for attending conferences
Resources
1. Women in CS conferences and workshops
• Grace Hopper Celebration - A Conference for Women in Computing *See the DCS Women at Grace Hopper Page
• Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)'s Women in Computing page
• CRA-W Workshops for: graduate students, junior faculty, and more; the grad cohort
• WiML - Workshop for Women in Machine Learning
• SOSP Diversity Workshop
2. Scholarships for Women in CS
• Google Canada's Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
• L'Oréal Canada For Women in Science Research Excellence Fellowships
• Microsoft Research Graduate Women's Scholarship Program
• Delta Kappa Gamma World Scholarship
• Travel Scholarship: ACM-W Scholarships for Attendance at Research Conferences
• Anita Borg Foundation Pass-It-On Awards Program
• Scholarships for Women
3. Additional stuff
• Wikipedia: Women in Computing
• NY Times (Nov 2008): The Forces Driving Women Out of Computer Science
• the Varsity: "Female profs reduce gender gap, study finds"
• University of Toronto - Status of Women Office - offers various workshops and events; Status of Women Office blog
• Study: "The Shortage of Female Computer Science Faculty at Stanford University"
• Article: "Are Student Evaluations of Teaching Fair?"
• Toronto Geek Girl Dinners
• DCS Women in Computer Science Archive Site
• Google Grad CS Forum
Some of Our Department's Faculty Members
GRAD STUDENT PROFILES
Shirin Sohrabi Araghi
Ph.D. Candidate
Ph.D. Graduate