Earlier this academic year, CATCS started a project to collect the profiles of TCS candidates on the job market this academic year. Those profiles can now be found at this webpage (Updated link; here is the deprecated link.). The webpage offers a limited amount of search functionality, and we are continuing to improve the layout and add features.

If you are at an institution that is hiring in theory, please feel free to use this database and share it with your colleagues as appropriate.

If you are going on the job market and would like to fill out a profile, please use this form. We will periodically update the webpage adding newer profiles.

Many thanks to Nicole Immorlica, Jack Snoeyink, and Chris Umans for putting together the website, and to all those who contributed their profiles. Questions and comments may be emailed to Shuchi Chawla.

CATCS is piloting an effort this year to collect and disseminate profiles of junior theory researchers who are going on the job market during the 2019-20 academic year, complementing the job postings collected under the Jobs tab. The SIGecom community has run a similar effort very successfully for a number of years and we are following their lead. The goals are two-fold:

• Provide a platform to job-seekers to advertise their credentials.
• Provide an interface for institutions/individuals with open positions to find prospective candidates.

Candidates looking for theory jobs can fill out this form. The form asks for basic personal information, thesis title, graduation date (past or future), research/teaching interests, bibliographic information for three publications, and allows you to add links to publications and a brief CV.

The responses will be reviewed and, if approved, edited and posted on Theory Matters starting in Nov’19. There is no deadline, but for responses received after Nov 1 please allow two weeks for review before your profile appears on the website. Responses received by Dec 15 will have summaries published in the following issue of SIGACT News.