Resources from our Workshops

ALT 2021 Mentorship Workshop

  • Interacting with your research community by Pravesh Kothari [slides]
  • Guiding principles for communicating/participating in science by Rafael Frongillo [slides]
  • Networking in academia by Jake Abernathy [slides]
  • Networking in academia by Jamie Morgenstern [slides]

COLT 2021 Mentorship Workshop

  • Thoughts on PhD applications by Pravesh Kothari [slides]
  • Applying for grad schools and fellowships by Kevin Jamieson [slides]
  • How to apply for academic jobs by Cynthia Rush [slides]
  • How to write statements of purpose by Boaz Barak [slides]
  • How to write statements of purpose for PhD & Fellowship Applications by Yisong Yue [slides]
  • Writing a research statement for the academic job market by Rocco Servedio [slides]

ALT 2022 Mentorship Workshop

  • Reviewing principles by Nicole Immorlica [slides] [notes]
  • How I read research papers by Aaditya Ramdas [slides]
  • How to read a paper by Sam Hopkins [slides]
  • How to review by Csaba Szepesvári [slides]
  • Foundations and applications of differential privacy by Rachel Cummings [video]
  • Exploration in Markov decision processes by Akshay Krishnamurthy [video]
  • How to deal with changing data distributions by Jamie Morgenstern [video]
  • Concentration inequalities by Clément Canonne [video] [slides]

Fall 2022 Mentorship Workshop

  • How to start your research journey by Stefanie Jegelka [slides]
  • Starting your research journey by Behnam Neyshabur [slides]
  • How to expand your research profile by Emma Pierson [slides] [video]
  • How to expand Your research profile by Jacob Steinhardt [slides] [video]

Fall 2023 Mentorship Workshop

  • How to give a research talk by Sanjoy Dasgupta [slides]

Resources from the Community

  • Checklist for PhD students by Aaditya Ramdas [link]
  • Women in Machine Learning Theory (WiML-T) Mentoring Program [link]
  • List of Master's Programs with TCS Research Opportunities by Aviad Rubinstein and Matt Weinberg [link]