***Call for Participation VisWeek 2012 Doctoral Colloquium***
With apologies for cross-posting
We solicit submissions to the doctoral colloquium (DC) for VisWeek
2012. The DC is a single-day invitation-only event at the beginning
of IEEE VisWeek where Ph.D. students in any visualization
field---preferably those at the proposal defense stage or
equivalent---present their proposed dissertation work and receive
feedback from leading senior visualization researchers. We invite
contributions from the scientific visualization, information
visualization, and visual analytics student communities.
More specifically, DC submissions can cover a wide selection of
topics related to VisWeek, including but not limited to
* Visual data mining
* Perception in visualization
* Design aspects of visualization
* High-dimensional visualization
* Data management and knowledge representation
* Large data visualization
* Analytical reasoning and sensemaking
* GPGPU methods in visualization
* Usability testing and evaluation
* Mathematics and statistics
* Principles and foundations of visualization
* Relevant application areas (climate, chemistry, hydrology, CFD,
medicine, genomics/proteomics, molecular biology, etc.)
The colloquium will allow students to discuss their research
directions in a supportive atmosphere with a panel of distinguished
leaders and with their peers. Students can expect helpful feedback
and fresh perspectives on their research topics and possible career
paths, and will have the opportunity to interact closely with expert
researchers in their field. The colloquium will support
community-building by connecting beginning and advanced researchers.
**Format**
The colloquium will likely consist of four sessions of student
presentations including in-depth discussion with the expert
panelists and the audience. A lunch is also planned that will give
student participants the opportunity to interact one-on-one with
panelists.
NOTE: Past doctoral colloquia have partially funded student
participants for their travel and conference registration. We hope
to be able to fund participants for the 2012 DC as well.
**Submissions**
The deadline for DC submissions is June 27, 2012.
Applicants to the Doctoral Colloquium should submit:
* A four-page summary of their thesis research, including the
problem being addressed, methodology and plan of research, and a
description of the progress to date.
* An email from the student's advisor recommending the student for
participation in the colloquium, emailed directly to
doctoral_coll(a)visweek.org.
* (Optional) A draft poster in PDF format (see below).
Student submissions should be emailed to doctoral_coll(a)visweek.org.
Formatting guidelines and LaTeX/Word templates can be found at
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html.
Student submissions will be peer-reviewed and selections will be
made on the basis of their contribution to the colloquium's goals,
strength of research direction, and the advisor's assessment.
Accepted submissions will be printed for colloquium participants.
**Poster Presentations**
Accepted participants of the Doctoral Colloquium will also be
allowed to present their work as a poster that will be displayed
together with the regular poster program. Please consider including
a draft poster with your DC submission. Participants may be asked
to refine their posters and summaries based upon reviewer feedback.
The poster session chairs will have a final say in accepting all
poster submissions, even for DC participants.
The posters themselves have no predefined formatting, but dimensions
may not exceed A0 paper size (841mm x 1189mm / 33.1" x 46.8").
Participants are responsible for bringing a hardcopy poster for
display during VisWeek. They should be available at the poster to
discuss their work during the scheduled evening poster session(s).
**Doctoral Colloquium Chairs**
Niklas Elmqvist, Purdue University
Christopher G. Healey, North Carolina State University
Leland Wilkinson, Systat Software
Contact: doctoral_coll(a)visweek.org
Dear colleagues,
Are you already planing your trip to BioVis (http://www.biovis.net) in Seattle this October? If not, then this a good time to get started. BioVis will take place on October 14th and 15th as part of the IEEE VisWeek conference.
DEADLINES
Poster and contest entries are due on June 27th. For details about the contest see below.
KEYNOTE
Our program is quickly taking shape and we are happy to announce that Christof Koch, CTO of the Allen Institute of Brain Science and Professor of Biology and Engineering at Caltech will be the BioVis 2012 keynote speaker. He will speak about the computational and informatics challenges of "MindScope", a large-scale effort to synthesize genomic, anatomical, physiological and theoretical knowledge into a description of the wiring scheme of the cortex, at both the structural and the functional levels.
CONTEST
We are excited to introduce our second annual data visualization challenge. Like last year's contest, this contest draws its inspiration from biological expression Quantitative Trait Locus (eQTL) data analysis. In 2011 we looked at how this data, which essentially catalogs how (potentially millions of) genotypic differences in an individual, cooperate to produce (potentially tens of thousands of) gene expression differences. While obviously a grand challenge, and pressing need for the biological and medical fields, the real payoff for this data comes from being able to use easily accessible sources of this data for an individual, for example blood, or saliva, to make predictions about difficult to access organs, such as brain or heart, where the immense regulatory network contains both similarities and differences.
To address this need, our 2102 challenge builds on the successes of 2011 and addresses differential eQTL - analysis of the differences between eQTL regulatory networks in different tissues, and the corresponding challenge of conveying the biological meaning contained in immense volumes of metadata, regarding these differences.
We invite contest contributions, big and small, to either the needs of visualizing and presenting the eQTL difference data, or the metadata, or any sub-aspect of these challenging problems. These are significant unsolved needs in the biological and life-sciences communities, and every contribution, will make a positive impact in this exciting and emerging field. There are two phases of competition and one has a choice of participating in either phase.
For more information, please see http://www.biovis.net/contest. The contest entries are due June 27, 2012.
We are looking forward to seeing you this October,
Jessie Kennedy, Raghu Machiraju and Nils Gehlenborg
BioVis 2012 General Chairs
contact(a)biovis.net
