Fourth Networking Networking Women Workshop - N2Women: Broadening Participation

In conjunction with ACM SIGCOMM 2014 conference, on August 17, Chicago, USA.

The main goal of N2 Women is to foster connections among the under-represented women in computer networking and related research fields. In the 4th N2Women Workshop, we welcome under-represented men who share the same research interests, attend the same conferences, and often face the same career hurdles and obstacles to join us!

Registration

http://tinyurl.com/n2women2014Registration

Technical Program

• 8:30am – 8:45am Opening

  Session Chair: Sami Rollins, Katia Jaffrès-Runser

• 8:50am – 9:30am Keynote #1

  Session Chair: Sami Rollins

• Leading Innovation in the Network and Your Career

  Deb Agarwal, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California

• 9:35am – 10:35am Mentoring Session #1 - Job Searching

  Session Chair: Klara Nahrstedt

• 10:40am - 11:00am Break

• 11:00am - 12:00am Panel #1: From Student to PI - Becoming an Independent Researcher

  Session Chair: Katia Jaffrès-Runser

• Panelists: Aruna Balasubramanian, Fabian Bustamante, Ramón Cáceres, Sonia Fahmy

• 12:00am - 1:30pm Lunch

• 1:30pm - 2:10pm Keynote #2

  Session Chair: Katia Jaffrès-Runser

• Cellular Networks as Sensors

  Ramón Cáceres, AT&T

• 2:15pm - 3:15pm Panel #2 : Taking on Professional Service and Leadership Roles.

  Session Chair: Sami Rollins

• Panelists: Klara Nahrstedt, Graciela Perera, Joel Branch, Deb Agarwal

• 3:15pm - 3:30pm Break

• 3:30pm - 4:30pm Poster session

  Session Chair: Claire Goursaud

• 4:30pm - 5:30pm Mentoring Session #2 - Career Development

  Session Chair: Renata Cruz Teixeira

Program

Keynote Speakers

We are pleased to announce this year’s keynote speakers:

Deb Agarwal Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Ramón Cáceres Lead Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs

Panel: From Student to PI - Becoming an Independent Researcher

Aruna Balasubramanian University of Washington

Fabian Bustamante Northwestern University

Ramón Cáceres Lead Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs

Sonia Fahmy Purdue University

Panel: Taking on Professional Service and Leadership Roles

Klara Nahrstedt UIUC

Graciela Perera Northeastern Illinois University

Joel Branch IBM

Deb Agarwal Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Mentoring Program

N2 Women will have a mentor/mentee program. We would like to extend mentoring throughout the week for the students who are staying for SIGCOMM. In this case, we are hoping to find mentors who can host mentees with similar research interests during the main SIGCOMM conference and workshops. If you are a SIGCOMM regular attendee and a senior researcher, please consider volunteering as a mentor. If you are interested in helping out, please email one of the mentoring session organizers below:

• Amy Csizmar Dalal
• Chen-Nee Chuah
• Te-Yuan Huang

Call for Posters

Posters are solicited for research related to any aspect of networking and communications. All researchers in the networking and communications fields are welcome to submit their work for presentation at this workshop. Each poster abstract will be reviewed by members of the TPC. Posters will not be published and hence can be under submission for other conferences or workshops. Two posters will be selected to receive a best poster award generously sponsored by Hewlett Packard Laboratories. Travel grants are available for selected students.

Download the Call for Posters

Submission

Each submission should be formatted as an extended abstract, describing the research to be presented in the poster. The length of the extended abstract should be at most TWO pages (formatted into the US letter size of 8.5 × 11 inches with fonts no smaller than 10 point size), including all figures and references. The extended abstract must include the names, affiliations and email addresses of all authors and should be submitted as a single PDF file to EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=n2w2014

Travel Grant

N2Women is pleased to provide travel grants to broaden the participation in our workshop. Applicants for the travel award should apply using the following link: http://form.jotformeu.com/form/41174051814346

Download the Call for Travel Grants

Important Dates

• May 26, 2014

  Abstract submission deadline

• June 9, 2014

  Acceptance notification

• May 26, 2014

  Student travel grant applications due

• June 16, 2014

  Student travel grant notification

• August 17, 2014

  Workshop date

For more information, please contact the Workshop Chairs: n2women-workshop@acm.org

Organizers

• Workshop Co-Chairs

• Sami Rollins

• Katia Jaffres-Runser

• Committee

• Claire Goursaud

  Poster Chair

• Aline Viana

  Industrial Fundraising and Grants Selection

• Maria Kazandjieva

  Web/Publicity Chair

• Chen-Nee Chuah

  Mentorship Co-chair

• Te-Yuan Huang

  Mentorship Co-chair

• Amy Csizmar Dalal

  Mentorship Co-chair

• Steering Committee

• Tracy Camp

• Wendi Heinzelman

Support

This workshop is possible thanks to the generous support of CRA-W/CDC, NSF, HP Labs, Inria, ALU France, SIGCOMM, SIGMOBILE, and Google.