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Post-doc job offer at INRIA / Bordeaux, France
by Guy Melançon 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Please accept our apologies for cross-posting / Forward to all potentially interested colleagues or students ------------------------------ INRIA, the national institute for research in computer science and control, operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry, is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in information and communication science and technology (ICST). INRIA is offering a 1 year post-doc position in Bordeaux, France in the area of "Interactive and Visual Graph Mining". You can find more information on INRIA's web site www.inria.fr (follow the link Work & Training or go directly to the URL www-futurs.inria.fr/emplois/fiches_post_doc/Fiche_Melancon_Ang.html ). ------------------------------ Post-doc job offer art INRIA / Bordeaux, France Interactive and Visual Graph Mining. Applications to strategic and competitive watch, and to social network analysis. By nature, strategic watch as well as social network analysis (in a wider sense) mix data from various sources. The goal is then to be able to discern relevant signals in massive information in order to anticipate tendencies or events that can be critical to organizations. In these contexts, interactive and visual graph mining is a fruitful approach requiring the development of techniques astutely combining dynamic graphical representations with interactive mining. The project will evolve in collaboration with the members of the Visualization of Massive Data research theme of the MABioVis team at LaBRI (Université Bordeaux I). Its focus will primarily be the study of social networks (close to the on-going ANR project SPANGEO SPAtial Network in GEOgraphy) and strategic watch (ANR RNTL grant proposal). Other application domains include biology and bio-informatics, where various data sources are combined (proteomics, clinical data, bibliographical data) in order to help biologists gain perspective and iteratively refine their research strategies. Mining large and complex graphs to identify sub-communities requires developing ideas emerging from graphical statistics, combinatorial analysis (graphs), classification and clustering, often with the necessity to integrate specific domain knowledge. Interacting on graphical representations (and on the underlying data), and visually detecting structural patterns provide insights that sometimes cannot be captured by classical statistical analysis. When dealing with dynamic data, visually identified components or specific data elements can be put under surveillance to follow their evolution and help diagnose or decide of actions to take. The Bordeaux team develops a software framework (Tulip www.tulip-software.org) for the visualization and manipulation of graphs, capable of dealing with large graphs, and targeted at computing and navigating graph hierarchies. Required skills Skills are required in visual mining (graphical representations and interaction), but also in combinatorics and/or statistics (with an emphasis on clustering/classification). The candidate must hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science and have clearly shown her/his abilities to conduct research at an international level. Techniques developed within the team are naturally experimented with Tulip before going into future releases. We seek persons having programming experience, to compute and/or experiment with graphs, and also to acquire and/or extract data. For more information, contact: GUY MELANÇON (Guy.Melancon(a)lirmm.fr) Tél. +33 467 41 85 43 MAYLIS DELEST (Maylis.Delest(a)labri.fr) Tél. +33 540 00 60 82 LaBRI UMR 5800 (Université Bordeaux I) www.labri.fr

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David E Hanna/chaska/BII is out of the office.
by dehanna＠beckman.com 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

I will be out of the office starting 06/30/2006 and will not return until 12/31/2006. I have moved to DSL in Webster TX. Please contact S Tupy for any Instrument Technical Operations issues. ======================================================================================================================== This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of Beckman Coulter, Inc. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message. ========================================================================================================================

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Preliminary Call for Papers: Asia Pacific Symposium on Visualisation (APVIS) 2007
by Richard Webber 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

============================================ Preliminary Call for Papers Asia Pacific Symposium on Visualisation 5-7 February, 2007 Sydney, Australia http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~visual/apvis2007/ ============================================ APVIS2007 is the sixth symposium (formerly known as Invis.au) for visualisation researchers in the Asia-Pacific region. Authors are invited to submit papers describing original and unpublished research or practical applications in any area of Information Visualisation or Scientific Visualisation. * Scope Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to: - Theoretic foundations of visualisation - Usability and human-factors - Visual models and representations - Visual knowledge discovery - Visual data mining - Visual analytics - Interaction techniques - Scientific visualisation - Information visualisation - Graph drawing algorithms - Visualisation of large data sets - Visualisation of time-varying data - Visualisation in bioinformatics - Visualisation in social network analysis - Software visualisation - Case studies - Real-world systems * Important Dates Submission of draft papers 8 September, 2006 Notification of acceptance 3 November, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers 17 November, 2006 Symposium 5-7 February, 2007 * Publication Submitted papers will be refereed and the accepted submissions will be in the official proceedings of the symposium. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. After the symposium, selected papers will be published in a special issue of Information Visualization. * Symposium Chair - Seokhee Hong (National ICT Australia Ltd. and University of Sydney, Australia) * Program Committee - Seokhee Hong (National ICT Australia Ltd. and University of Sydney, Australia), co-chair - Kwan-Liu Ma (University of California Davis, USA), co-chair - Ulrik Brandes (University of Konstanz, Germany) - Wei Chen (Zhejiang University, China) - Ed Chi (PARC, USA) - Jean-Daniel Fekete (INRIA, France) - Issei Fujishiro (Tohoku University, Japan) - John Grundy (University of Auckland, New Zealand) - Helwig Hauser (VRVis Research Center, Austria) - Mao Lin Huang (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) - T. J. Jankun-Kelly (Mississippi State University, USA) - Hideki Koike (University of Electro-Communications, Japan) - Koji Koyamada (Kyoto University, Japan) - Wei Lai (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) - Kim Marriott (Monash University, Australia) - Stephen North (AT&T Research, USA) - Kozo Sugiyama (JAIST, Japan) - Vincent Tam (University of Hong Kong, China) - Jiro Tanaka (University of Tsukuba, Japan) - Bruce Thomas (University of South Australia, Australia) - Melanie Tory (University of Victoria, Canada) - Rudi Vernik (Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia) - Martin Wattenberg (IBM Watson Research Center, USA) - Jarke van Wijk (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) - Pak Chung Wong (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA) - Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) * Organising Committee - Seokhee Hong (National ICT Australia Ltd. and University of Sydney, Australia), chair - Xiaoyan Fu (National ICT Australia Ltd.) - Barbara Munday (National ICT Australia Ltd.) - Richard Webber (National ICT Australia Ltd.) - Kai Xu (National ICT Australia Ltd.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email and any attachments may be confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You should not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both messages. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised amendment. This notice should not be removed.

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