We are happy to announce the 6th biennial CRA Career Mentoring Workshop. The workshop provides career advice and mentoring activities for senior graduate students, post docs, assistant professors, and individuals just starting as industrial researchers in computer science. The workshop is structured as a series of panels interleaved with opportunities to network with senior researchers and representatives from the NSF, DARPA, and NIH.

Confirmed Panels: Planning Your Research Career, Career Networking, Teaching, Mentoring and Managing Students, Preparing a Tenure Dossier, Time Management and Family Life, Advice from Early Career Faculty, and Writing Grant Proposals.

Confirmed Speakers: Jan Cuny (NSF), Mary Fernandez (AT&T Labs Research), Kathleen Fisher (AT&T Labs Research), Dan Grossman (University of Washington), Laura Haas (IBM Almaden), Susanne Hambrusch (Purdue), Mary Jean Harrold (Georgia Tech), Kim Hazelwood (University of Virginia), Jeff Hollingsworth (University of Maryland), Chad Jenkins (Brown), Margaret Martonosi (Princeton), J Moore (University of Texas at Austin), Dave Patterson (UC Berkeley), Bobby Schnabel (Indiana University), Mary Lou Soffa (University of Virginia), Valerie Taylor (Texas A&M), and Terry Yoo (NIH).

Here is a link to the agenda. Please remember this agenda is tentative and may change prior to the workshop.

There will be a registration fee to cover the cost of the workshop. Limited funding is available for advanced graduate students and faculty from minority serving institutions or minority faculty. You may apply for the funding on the application.

Anyone may apply, but there are a limited number of spaces in the workshop.

Applications were due by December 15, 2009. The application period is now closed.