PL Mentoring Workshop (PLMW)SPLASH 2018
The SPLASH 2018 Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop is aimed at advanced undergraduates and first year graduate students. The workshop aims to attract students to research careers in programming languages and software engineering, to de-mystify the graduate school experience, and to offer first-hand perspectives on graduate study from recent Ph.D. graduates, young scholars, and senior researchers. Applicants from groups underrepresented in computing are especially welcome.
The workshop program will focus on important skills for beginning researchers and will offer mentoring opportunities with senior researchers attending the conference. Guy Steele will be the workshop keynote speaker; additional confirmed speakers include: Marsha Chechik, Kathleen Fisher, Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishnamruthi, Mayur Naik, Julia Rubin, and Frank Tip plus a panel of newly graduated Ph.D.s in PL/SE. Panelists will include Michael Carbin, Shiyi Wei, Sarah Nadi and Ben Lerner. Topics to be discussed include:
- How to network effectively at a conference? How to find your cohort? How to find a mentor and what to look for?
- What communication skills are essential for a research career? To give a good presentation? A good poster session talk? To write an outstanding paper?
- How do people pick their research area of interest or your advisor/mentor?
- What are the new, emerging areas in PL/SE?
- What are the differences between a research career in industry and in academia?
- What are the important work/life issues researchers deal with?
- How did PL/SE researchers successfully navigate their training experiences?
Travel support for PLMW is made possible by generous contributions from the National Science Foundation from ACM SIGPLAN and from Google.
Talks
Mentoring Application
To ensure that students can benefit from the entire, full-day program, this workshop is not open, (i.e., you can not decide on your own to attend). All students who are interested in attending must apply to do so — and will also be eligible to receive travel support to attend the workshop. We will support students’ travel to the workshop and to SPLASH (from Tuesday-Friday) including airfare, hotel, and conference registration.
Mon 5 NovDisplayed time zone: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey change
08:45 - 10:00 | |||
08:45 75mTalk | Explicit Direct Instruction in Programming EducationKEYNOTE Keynotes | ||
Tue 6 NovDisplayed time zone: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey change
07:30 - 08:45 | |||
07:30 75m | Mentoring Breakfast PLMW | ||
08:45 - 10:00 | |||
08:45 15m | Welcome and Introduction PLMW Barbara Ryder Virginia Tech File Attached | ||
09:00 60mTalk | 50 Years of Programming and Language DesignKEYNOTE Keynotes Guy L. Steele Jr. Oracle Labs File Attached | ||
10:30 - 12:00 | |||
10:30 30mTalk | The story of Arjun Guha, or: the arc of a research project PLMW Shriram Krishnamurthi Brown University, USA | ||
11:00 30mTalk | From academia to industry and back again PLMW Julia Rubin University of British Columbia File Attached | ||
11:30 30mTalk | Work/Life Balance PLMW Kathleen Fisher Tufts University, USA File Attached | ||
13:00 - 14:00 | |||
13:00 60m | Panel: Industrial and Academic Research PLMW Kathleen Fisher Tufts University, USA, Mayur Naik University of Pennsylvania, Julia Rubin University of British Columbia, Frank Tip Northeastern University | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | |||
14:00 30mTalk | Navigating the process of doing a rewarding Ph.D. PLMW Mayur Naik University of Pennsylvania | ||
14:30 30mTalk | Interaction: the Key to Joining a Research Community PLMW Kathi Fisler Brown University File Attached | ||
15:00 30mTalk | Advice on your advisor PLMW Marsha Chechik University of Toronto File Attached | ||
16:00 - 21:00 | |||
16:00 30mTalk | How to Select Good Research Topics? PLMW Frank Tip Northeastern University File Attached | ||
16:30 60m | Panel of Recent Ph.Ds PLMW Michael Carbin Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Benjamin Lerner Northeastern University, Sarah Nadi University of Alberta, Shiyi Wei The University of Texas at Dallas | ||
17:30 15m | Discussion and Concluding Remarks PLMW File Attached | ||
18:00 3h | End-of-Workshop Dinner at The Brahmin American (All PLMW attendees, speakers, panelists and mentors are invited) PLMW | ||
Wed 7 NovDisplayed time zone: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey change
08:30 - 10:00 | |||
08:30 90mTalk | A new modularity for softwareKEYNOTE Keynotes Daniel Jackson MIT | ||
Thu 8 NovDisplayed time zone: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey change
08:30 - 10:00 | |||
08:30 90mTalk | Beauty is the Promise of HappinessKEYNOTE Keynotes Jenny Quillien Embodied Making Institute | ||
17:30 - 18:30 | |||
17:30 60mTalk | In Defense of "Little Code"KEYNOTE Keynotes Kathi Fisler Brown University | ||
Fri 9 NovDisplayed time zone: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey change
08:30 - 10:00 | |||
08:30 90mTalk | Distributed AbstractionsKEYNOTE Keynotes Barbara Liskov MIT | ||
14:45 - 15:45 | |||
14:45 60mTalk | Reasoning about Security of Amazon Web ServicesKEYNOTE Keynotes Byron Cook Amazon | ||
| Tue 4 Sep 2018 Notification |
| Fri 3 Aug 2018 Mentorship Application Due |
Michael Carbin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
Marsha Chechik
University of Toronto
Canada
Kathleen Fisher
Tufts University, USA
United States
Kathi Fisler
Brown University
United States
Shriram Krishnamurthi
Brown University, USA
Benjamin Lerner
Northeastern University
United States
Sarah Nadi
University of Alberta
Canada
Mayur Naik
University of Pennsylvania
Julia Rubin
University of British Columbia
Canada
Guy L. Steele Jr.
Oracle Labs
United States
Frank Tip
Northeastern University
United States
Shiyi Wei
The University of Texas at Dallas