2013-04-08: Grad Cohort Workshop (CRA-W) 2013
On April 5-6, I was pleased to have the opportunity to meet and network with many successful senior women as well as graduate students from other universities in CRA-W Graduate Cohort , which was held in Boston, MA. Grad Cohort, which began in 2004, aims to increase the ranks of senior women in computing by building and mentoring nationwide communities of women through their graduate studies. Grad Cohort accepts women students in their first, second, or third year of graduate school in computer science and engineering. They provide sessions for each of the three years. Since I am now in my third year of my computer science Ph.D., I attended third year sessions, which I'm going to talk about in the rest of the blog post. The workshop included a mix of formal presentations and informal discussions. In the first day's afternoon, there was a Poster Session for participants to talk about their research. I presented a poster entitled " Access Patterns for Robots and Humans...