1. CATCS Report STOC 2018 Business Meeting
Shuchi Chawla

2. What is CATCS?
“Committee for the Advancement of Theoretical Computer Science” Mission: to interface between the TCS community and funding agencies, the public, and other research communities --- promoting TCS and fostering communication.

3. Current Members
Boaz Barak Shuchi Chawla (chair starting Sept 1) Ken Clarkson Nicole Immorlica Anna Karlin Michael Mitzenmacher
Ryan O’Donnell Dana Randall Tim Roughgarden (outgoing chair) Alexander Russell David Shmoys Chris Umans David Woodruff

4. Blog: https://thmatters.wordpress.com/

5. TCS Jobs Site: https://cstheory-jobs.org

6. TCS Events: https://cstheory-events.org/

7. Sample CAREER proposals

8. Current & upcoming efforts (1)
Recruiting people to serve at NSF & other funding agencies
especially urgent: AF Program Director rotator position
Come talk to one of us if you are potentially interested!
Serving on panels also very important
Engaging with NSF, Simons Foundation, Simons Institute, DIMACS, DARPA, AAAS, CCC

9. Current & upcoming efforts (2)
Recently completed:
TCS awards list (nominate someone!) (David Woodruff)
In case you missed it:
Writing tips for general science journals like Science/Nature/PNAS (Ryan O’Donnell)
Improving TCS entries on Wikipedia (Shuchi Chawla)
Future:
advice document for non-NSF funding
examples of TCS technology transfer
We welcome your suggestions!