1. To organize a meeting, email N2Women-Info@acm.org for assistance
2. An easy step-by-step plan on how to organize an N2 Women meeting: click 
here
3. Lessons learned from past event organizers: click here
4. Example sign-up sheet [.doc]: click here 

N2 Women Event Calendar

  • 2nd N2Women Workshop 2012
    • Date: March 25, 2012
    • Location: Miami, co-located with IEEE Infocom 2012
    • Academic keynote speaker: Dr. Ellen W. Zegura (Professor and Chair, School of Computer Science, Georgia Tech)
    • Industry keynote speaker: Dr. Helen J. Wang (Microsoft Research).
      Eliza amphitheater room, SenSys 2011 Venue
    • Organizers: Robin Kravets, Violet Syrotiuk, Damla Turgut, Tracy Camp and Wendi Heinzelman 
  • Globecom 2011
    • Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2011
    • Time: 12:00AM - 1:30PM
    • Location:Meeting Room 344B, Hilton Americas, Houston, Globecom 2011
    • Panelists: Prof. Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University), Dr.Fernando Mujica (Director, System Architecture Lab, Texas Instruments), and Prof. Wendi Heinzelman (University of Rochester). Prof. Sarah Kate Wilson (Santa Clara University) will be moderating
    • Topics:
      - Academic vs. industry research: How to choose which one is right for you?
      - How to prepare as a graduate student for a research career in academia/industry?
      - How to network and market your research to different audiences?
    • Organizer: Aakanksha Chowdhery (achowdhery@ieee.org)
    • Advisor: Wendi Heinzelman
    • RSVP: Please RSVP by filling out the form at http://goo.gl/x9g2F,but you are welcome to attend even if you do not RSVP.  For more information, contact Aakanksha Chowdhery (achowdhery@ieee.org).
    • Flyer: http://goo.gl/41JzZ
  • Sensys 2011
    • Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2011
    • Time: 12:00AM - 1:30PM
    • Location: Eliza amphitheater room, SenSys 2011 Venue
    • Panelists: Jaeyeon Jung, Magdalena Balazinska, Matt Welsh
      Topics:
      • What grad school did not teach you.
      • How to get your papers into top venues?
      • How to best land top jobs in industry/academia?
    • Organizer: Soudeh Ghorbani (soudeh.ghorbani@gmail.com
    • Advisor: Dr. Geethapriya Thamilarasu, SUNY Institute of Technology
    • Flyer (pdf) 
  • Mobicom 2011
    • Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011
    • Time: 12:00AM - 1:30PM
    • Location: Room St. Kitts
    • Guest speaker: Dr. Romit Roy Choudhury - In Search of a Recipe for Creative Research 
    • Panelists: Dr. Lili Qiu, Dr. Yingying Chen,  Dr. Aruna Balasubramanian 
    • Topics
      - Seven habits of highly effective researchers
      - Motivation, driving force, and rewards of conducting good research in the networking field
      - How to cultivate the culture of a successful strong research group 
    • Organizer: Mikie Han, please RSVP ( hanmi2@gmail.com)
    •  Presentations: Creative Research, Random Thoughts
  • SIGCOMM 2011
    • Date: Tuesday, August 16, 2011
    • Time: 12:30-14:00
    • Location: Queens Quay 2, Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto
    • Panelists: Dr. Jelena Mirkovic, Dr. Sharon Goldberg, Dr. Renata Cruz Teixeira, Dr. Christophe Diot
    • Organizer:  Ouldooz Baghban Karimi
    • Advisor:  Dr. Jaudelice de Oliveira
    • Flyer (pdf) 
  • MOBISYS 2011 
    • Date: Thursday, June 30, 2011
    • Time: 12:45-14:00
    • Location: DoubleTree Hotel
    • Guest speaker: Dr. Aruna Balasubramanian, University of Washington
    • Organizer: Yue Liu, University of Michigan
    • Advisor: Prof. Sami Rollins, University of San Francisco 
  • SECON 2011 
    • Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2011
    • Time: 12:00-13:15
    • Location: Sundance/Solitude and Bryce room
    • Guest speaker: Lili Qiu and Jim Kurose (Jim's slides as pdf)
    • Organizer: Farhana Ashraf, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Advisor: Professor Lili Qiu, University of Texas at Austi n
  • Infocom 2011 
  • Sensys 2010
  • MobiCom/MobiHoc  2010
    • N2 Women Workshop 
    • Date: September 20, 2010 
    • Information: web page
  • SIGCOMM 2010
    • Time: 12:30-2:00
    • Location: 20th floor, Le Méridien, New Delhi, India
    • Organizers: Minlan Yu (Princeton University) and Sue Moon (KAIST)
    • Panelists: Sharon Goldberg (Boston University), Radia Perlman (Intel), Renata Teixeira (CNRS and UPMC Paris Universitas), Xiaowei Yang (Duke University)
    Date: Sept. 1st, 2010
  • ICDCS 2010
    • Date: June 23, 2010 
    • Time: 18:30 - 10:30 
    • Location: Room G2b 
    • Organizer: Devu Manikantan Shila dmanikan@iit.edu
  • IEEE SECON 2010 
  • WoWMoM 2010 
    • Date: June 15, 2010  
    • Time: 17:00 - 18:00 
    • Location: Hyatt Regency Montreal, 1255 Jeanne-Mance, Montreal, Canada  
    • Speaker: Prof. Lata Narayanan, from the Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). 
    • RSVP: by email michela.papandrea@supsi.ch 
    • Organizers: Michela Papandrea (University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, SUPSI) and Silvia Giordano (University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, SUPSI)  
  • MobiSys 2010
    • Date: June 16, 2010 
    • Time: 12:30 - 2pm 
    • Discussions in groups 
    • Organizer:Pegah Sattari psattari@uci.edu (please RSVP)
  • NSDI 2010
    • Informal Lunch Discussion on Impact in Research and in Mentorship  
    • Date: April 29, 2010  
    • Time: 12 am  
    • Organizers: Maria Kazandjieva, Stanford
  • CPS Week 2010
    • Date: April 13, 2010  
    • Time: 15:00 - 16:30  
    • Location: Room E31, KTH, Stockholm 
    • Organizers: Ozlem Durmaz Incel
  • PerCom 2010
    • Date: April 1st, 2010 
    • Time: 6pm 
    • Speaker: Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California at Irvine, USA 
    • Organizers: Dr. Franca Delmastro, IIT-CNR Pisa, Italy and Prof. Daniela Nicklas, University of Oldenburg, Germany
  • IEEE Infocom 2010
    • Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 
    • Time:  12:30-2:00pm 
    • Room: Palm II Room, Hyatt Regency Mission Bay 
    • Location: San Diego, California 
    • RSVP: For more information and RSVP, please contact klevanti@cmu.edu 
    • Organizers:  Kyriaki Levanti (CMU), Prof. Tara Javidi (UCSD), Prof. Mooi Choo Chuah (Lehigh University) 
  • ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiOpp 2010
    • Date: February 22, 2010 
    • Time: 6:30-7:30 pm 
    • Room: to be defined 
    • Location: IIT Institute @CNR Research Area, via G. Moruzzi 1,Pisa, Italy 
    • Speaker: Prof. Ellen  W. Zegura (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) will speak about, "On Juggling...". 
    • Organizer: Laura Galluccio (University of Catania, Italy)  
  • Globecom 2009
    • Date: Monday, November 30, 2009  
    • Time: 5:30-6:30 PM  
    • Location: Ilima Boardroom, located in the Kalia Executive Conference Center  
    • Speaker: Dr. Radia Perlman will speak about, "Finding a path in an imperfect world". 
    • Organizer: Juliana Freitag Borin (University of Campinas)
  • SenSys 2009
    • Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009  
    • Time: 12:30-13:30  
    • Location: Conference site, details to follow  
    • Organizer: Anna Förster (University of Lugano) and Professor Polly Huang (National Taiwan University)
  • MobiCom 2009
    • Date: Thursday September 24, 2009  
    • Time: 12:30pm - 1:30 pm  
    • Location: Next to conference lunch room  
    • Organizers: Maria Gorlatova (Columbia University) and Professor Mingyan Liu (University of Michigan)
  • SIGCOMM 2009
    • Date: Tuesday August 18, 2009  
    • Time: 12:30 PM  
    • Location: Salon 7 Room, Catalonia Barcelona Plaza, Barcelona, Spain  
    • Panel: "Entangled in Networks? Different Paths and Visions in Networking Research: Insights (and Tales)" presented by Meeyoung Cha, Anja Feldmann, Sue Moon, and Dina Papagiannaki  
    • Organizers: Doris Schiöberg (Berlin Institute of Technology) and Professor Dina Papagiannaki (Intel Research and Carnegie Mellon University)
  • ICCCN 2009
    • Date: August 3  
    • Time: 12:15-1:15  
    • Location: Sonoma Room, San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco  
    • Lunch: Meet in the Sonoma room and then head to the hotel cafe for lunch  
    • Organizer: Geethapriya Thamilarasu (University at Buffalo)
  • ICDCS 2009
    • Date: June 24, 2009  
    • Time: after the last session, before the reception  
    • Organizers: Amy Chen (University of Florida)
  • MobiSys 2009
  • ICC 2009: ComsSoc WICE and N2Women Joint Meeting
    • Date: Wednesday June 17, 2009  
    • Time: 16:00-18:00  
    • Location: Seminar #7/Convention Center (same location as the ICC conference)  
    • Panel: Life and career in academia vs. industry  
    • Organizers: Marjan Baghaie (University of Southern California) and Professor Mary Ann Ingram (GA Tech)
  • DCOSS 2009
    • Date: June 8, 2009  
    • Time: Lunch  
    • Location: Marriott, Marina Del Rey, CA  
    • Organizer: Sharanya Eswaran (Pennsylvania State University)
  • IWSCN 2009 & CISIM 2009
    • Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009  
    • Time: 6:30 - 10:00 PM  
    • Location: EE Building, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway  
    • Guest Speaker: Professor Anna Brunstrom from Karlstad University, Sweden  
    • Organizers: Professor Svein J. Knapskog (Mozhgan Tavakolifard)
  • MobiHoc 2009
    • Date: Wednesday May 20, 2009  
    • Time: 7:30-8:30 A.M.  
    • Location: Harrah's Hotel New Orleans  
    • Speaker: Dr. Jun-Hong Cui, University of Connecticut  
    • Organizers: Han Cai (North Carolina State University) and Professor Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino)
  • INFOCOM 2009
    • Date: Tuesday April 21, 2009  
    • Time: 6:00-7:00 P.M.  
    • Location: Sheraton Rio Hotel and Resort, Vidigal A/B  
    • Panel Speakers: Professor Robin Kravets (UIUC), Professor Qian Zhang (Hongkong University of Science & Technology), Dr. Reneta Teixeira (CNRS Researcher France) and Prof Mooi Choo Chuah (Lehigh University) 
    • Sponsor: Many thanks to INFOCOM 2009 for sponsoring this event!  
    • RSVP: For more information and to RSVP, please email Sofia Pediaditaki   
    • Organizers: Sofia Pediaditaki (University of Edinburgh) and Professor Mooi Choo Chuah (Lehigh University)
  • IEEE GLOBECOM 2008
    • Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008  
    • Time: 7:15 - 8:00 AM  
    • Location: Chequers Room, 2nd Floor  
    • RSVP: For more information or to RSVP, contact Michele Nogueira (Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6) or Professor Mary Ann Ingram (Georgia Tech)
  • IEEE MILCOM 2008
    • Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008  
    • Time: Discussion Meeting (10:45-11:45 AM) & Lunch (12:00-1:30 PM)  
    • Location: Room 6B Upper Level (Discussion Meeting) & Exhibit Hall B (Lunch)  
    • RSVP: contact Elisa Rondini (University College London)
  • ACM SenSys 2008
    • Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008  
    • Time: 7:30 - 8:30 AM  
    • Location: Sheraton Raleigh Hotel  
    • Guest Speaker: Professor Nirupama Bulusu, Portland State University and Professor Polly Huang, National Taiwan University  
    • RSVP: contact Elisa Rondini (University College London) or Professor Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)
  • ACM MobiCom 2008
    • Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008  
    • Time: 12:15-1:30 PM  
    • Location: Conference Hotel  
    • Panel: "Academia or Industry: Making an Informed Choice"  
    • Panelists:
      • Dr. Sarah Kate Wilson, Santa Clara University  
      • Dr. Lili Qiu, University of Texas, Austin  
      • Dr. Robin Kravets, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign  
      • Dr. Sujata Banerjee, HP Labs, Palo Alto
    • RSVP: For more information or to RSVP, contact Ramya Raghavendra (U.C. Santa Barbara) or Professor Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mine).
  • IEEE PIMRC 2008
    • Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008  
    • Time: 7:30 - 8:30 AM  
    • Location: REDACTION 3  
    • Guest speaker: Professor Muriel Medard, MIT, "How to get there from here - one perspective"  
    • To RSVP, email Professor Aawatif Hayar   
    • Organizers: Professor Aawatif Hayar (Eurecom Mobile Communications) and Dr. Michelle Wetterwald (Eurecom Mobile Communications)
  • ACM SIGCOMM 2008
    • Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008  
    • Time: 12:10 - 1:40 PM  
    • Location: Grand Hyatt Regency (conference hotel), Brewett Suite  
    • Panel: Career challenges for women and how to overcome the challenges  
    • To RSVP, please email Nurcan Tezcan   
    • Organizers: Nurcan Tezcan (North Carolina State University) and Professor Lan Wang (University of Memphis)
  • IEEE ICDCS 2008
    • Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008  
    • Time: 12:30 - 1:30 PM  
    • Location: Banquet Hall (where conference lunch will be held) --- attendees of the event should look for reserved tables in a corner of the Banquet Hall  
    • For more information and to RSVP email zhujinghua@hit.edu.cn  
    • Organizers: Chunyu Ai (Georgia State University), Jinghua Zhu (Harbin Institute of Technology) and Professor Yingshu Li (Georgia State University)
  • ACM MobiSys 2008
    • Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008  
    • Time: 11:30 (Lunch)  
    • Location: Mountain View Room  
    • Speaker: Dr. Maria Ebling, Senior Manager, Responsive Enterprise Solutions, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center  
    • Organizers: Arta Doci (Colorado School of Mines), Ece Gelal (University of California, Riverside) and Professor Carla Ellis (Duke University)
  • IEEE SECON 2008
    • Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008  
    • Time: 12:00 - 1:30 PM  
    • Location: Terra Room, Crowne Plaza, San Francisco International Airport  
    • RSVP: For more information and to RSVP, email Ozlem Durmaz 
    • Organizers: Ozlem Durmaz (University of Twente, Netherlands) and Dr. Sujata Banerjee (HP Labs)
  • ACM MobiHoc 2008
    • Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2008  
    • Time: 12:00 - 1:30 PM  
    • Location: Renaissance Kowloon Hotel  
    • Speaker: Professor Yingshu Li, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University  
    • RSVP: For more information and to RSVP email n2womenmobihoc@gmail.com   
    • Organizers: Nur Aini (National Taiwan U. of Science of Technology), Professor Jianping Wang (City University of Hong Kong) and Professor Susan Cheng (George Washington University)
  • IEEE ICC 2008
    • Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008  
    • Time: 12:30 - 2:00 PM  
    • Location: Banquet Hall (where conference lunch will be held)--attendees of the meeting should look for reserved tables in a corner of the Banquet Hall  
    • Organizers: Chao Wang (University of Wisconsin) and Professor Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines)
  • IEEE INFOCOM 2008 Luncheon
    • Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008  
    • Time: 12:20 PM  
    • Cost: Free (buffet lunch included with conference registration)  
    • RSVP: By April 4, 2008 to Xia Zhou   
    • Organizers: Xia Zhou (U.C. Santa Barbara) and Professor Elizabeth Belding (U.C. Santa Barbara)
  • IEEE Globecom 2007 Luncheon
    • Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2007  
    • Time: 12:10 PM  
    • Place: The Capital Cafe in the Hilton Washington  
    • Cost: Cost of lunch  
    • RSVP: Sign up at the registration desk AND email Professor Wenye Wang   
    • Organizer: Professor Wenye Wang (North Carolina State University)
  • ACM MobiCom/MobiHoc 2007 Breakfast
    • Date: September 12, 2007  
    • Time: 7:15 AM  
    • Place: Hilton Montreal Bonaventure, Room TBD  
    • Cost: Free (continental breakfast included with conference registration)  
    • RSVP: Sign up at the registration desk-- please register ONLY IF you plan to attend the breakfast  
    • Organizer: Professor Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines)
  • IEEE SECON 2007 Breakfast
    • Date: June 20, 2007  
    • Time: 7:30 AM  
    • Place: San Diego Marriott Mission Valley  
    • Cost: Free, thanks to generous support from Motorola  
    • RSVP: by June 18, 2007 to Wendi Heinzelman   
    • The breakfast will feature a talk entitled, "Career key learning's from a female engineer" by Dr. Vida Ilderem, Vice President of Motorola's Embedded Systems Research Lab. Dr. Ilderem will discuss key learnings from her own career including advice for being a mentor or finding one for yourself, planning for your career, continuing/advancing education, and the value of networking.  
    • Organizer: Professor Wendi Heinzelman (University of Rochester)
  • ACM/USENIX MobiSys 2007 Breakfast
    • Date: June 13, 2007  
    • Time: 7:30 AM  
    • Place: Ritz Carlton, San Juan Hotel, Spa, and Casino  
    • Cost: Free, thanks to generous support from Microsoft  
    • RSVP: by June 10, 2007 to Cecilia Mascolo   
    • The breakfast will feature a talk by Margaret Martonosi, Professor Dept. of Electrical Eng. and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University  
    • Organizer: Professor Cecilia Mascolo (University College of London)
  • IEEE INFOCOM 2007 Breakfast
    • Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2007  
    • Time: 8:00 AM  
    • Place: Hilton Anchorage, 500 West Third Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska  
    • Cost: Free, thanks to generous support from the IEEE INFOCOM 2007 Organizing Committee  
    • RSVP: to Yingying Chen or Cristina Nita-Rotaru   
    • Organizers: Professor Yingying Chen (Rutgers University) and Professor Christina Nita-Rotaru (Purdue University)
  • ACM SenSys 2006 Breakfast
    • Date: Thursday, November 2, 2006  
    • Time: 7:30 AM  
    • Place: Thyme on the Creek in the Millenium Harvest House Hotel, 1345 28th Street, Boulder, Colorado  
    • Cost: $9 for continental breakfast, $12 for full buffet  
    • RSVP: Sign up at the registration desk-- please register ONLY IF you plan to attend the breakfast  
    • Organizers: Professor Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines) and Professor Niki Trigoni (University of London)
  • Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
    • Date: Thursday, October 5th, 2006  
    • Time: 7:30am - 8:30am  
    • Format: Reserved tables at GHC's general breakfast
      Pick up your breakfast in the Atlas foyer and then walk past the Anita Borg Institute booth to the Grand foyer, and then outside to the Lion Fountain Court. 
       
    • Cost: Free (breakfast included with conference registration)  
    • RSVP: not necessary  
    • Organizer: Professor Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines)
  • ACM MobiCom 2006 Luncheon
    • Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2006  
    • Time: 11:45am - 1:30pm  
    • Format: Reserved tables at MobiCom general lunch  
    • Cost: Free (lunch included with conference registration)  
    • RSVP: Sign up at the registration desk  
    • Organizer: Professor Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines)
  • IEEE SECON 2006 Luncheon 
    • Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2006  
    • Time: 12:30-2:00 P.M.  
    • Cost: Free for IEEE SECON main conference attendees, $25 for others  
    • RSVP: by September 20, 2006 to Wendi Heinzelman (wheinzel@ece.rochester.edu)  
    • Organizer: Professor Wendi Heinzelman (University of Rochester)
  • ACM MobiHoc 2006 Breakfast 
    • Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2006  
    • Time: 7:30-8:30 A.M.  
    • Cost: Free (thanks to support from MobiHoc and SIGMOBILE)  
    • Organizers: Professor Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines), Professor Laura Galluccio (University of Catania) and Professor Wendi Heinzelman (University of Rochester)

 

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