The Women in Theory (WIT) Workshop is intended for graduate and exceptional undergraduate students in the area of theory of computer science. The workshop will feature technical talks and tutorials by senior and junior women in the field, as well as social events and activities. The motivation for the workshop is twofold. The first goal is to deliver an invigorating educational program; the second is to bring together theory women students from different departments and foster a sense of kinship and camaraderie.

The 8th WIT workshop will take place at  Simons Institute at Berkeley, Jun 3 – 6, 2025.

Confirmed Speakers:  Shuchi Chawla (UT Austin), Rachel Cummings (Columbia U.), Laura Kray (UC Berkeley), Lydia Liu (Princeton U.),  Tal Malkin (Columbia U.), Ronitt Rubinfeld (MIT), Mary Wootters (Stanford U.)   Sara Ahmadian (Google), Kshipra Bhawalkar Lane (Google), Lynn Chua (Google), Apoorva Deshpande (Google), Yangsibo Huang (Google), Isabelle Stanton (Google)

Organizers: Tal Rabin (UPenn & AWS), Lisa Zhang (Bell Labs), Shubhangi Saraf (U. Toronto), and Elette Boyle (Reichman University (IDC) and NTT Research)
Local Host Institution:  Simons Institute at Berkeley.
Local Arrangements: Venkat Guruswami, Amy Ambrose (Simons)
Contact us: womenintheory2025@gmail.com.

To apply to the workshop, please follow the instructions on this form.

Important dates:
Applications due: January 31, 2025
Notification due: March 14, 2025
Student rump session title/pdf slides due: June 2, 2025
Workshop: June 3-6, 2025

Further information:
Workshop program
Logistics
Previous workshops: WIT 2008, video from 2008, WIT 2010, lecture notes from 2010, WIT 2012, WIT 2014, WIT 2016, WIT 2018, WIT 2022.

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