October 2015 - Infovis

2015 IEEE Visualization Conference Connects Latest in Research to Real World Practice
by Jian Chen 13 Oct '15

13 Oct '15

*IEEE VIS 2015*: http://ieeevis.org October 25-30 2015, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ieeevis (preview videos will be posted each day) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-VIS-4469236?home=&gid=4469236&trk=anet… <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-VIS-4469236?home=&gid=4469236&trk=anet…> CHICAGO, 12 October 2015 – Over a thousand data visualization specialists are expected at the 2015 IEEE Visualization (VIS) conference in Chicago this month. For one week starting October 25, VIS will host the largest annual gathering of academics, practitioners, and researchers focused on making every variety of dataset visually understandable. After its successful meeting in Paris last year, the international VIS conference is returning to the United States, where organizers hope to attract a record number of young practitioners seeking opportunities to meet and mingle with the senior members and leaders in their field. This year’s program includes several returning events aimed at encouraging such interactions, such as the Doctoral Colloquium and Digital Compass activities, along with a new industry-targeted Practitioner Event. “This conference is the best opportunity all year for the data visualization community to see and share the latest advancements, tools, and techniques,” said Michael E. Papka, VIS 2015 co-chair. “From the academic to the applied, VIS has something to offer everybody working in the field today.” VIS 2015 papers talks and panels are organized into three tracks: *Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), Information Visualization (InfoVis)*, and* Scientific Visualization (SciVis). *These main track offerings and a three-day exhibition begin on Tuesday October 27. Three co-located symposiums are held on the first two days of VIS 2015: *Visualization in Data Science (VDS)*, *Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV)*, and *Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec)*. The VIS offerings on Sunday October 25 and Monday October 26 also include eight workshops and nine tutorials. The VIS 2015 Arts Program features a papers track and a two-week public art exhibition at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC’s) LeRoy Neiman Center, which is located across the street from the conference venue, the Palmer House Hilton, in Chicago’s downtown Loop district. IEEE VIS is sponsored by IEEE’s Computer Society. Additional support comes from academic, industry, and government research organizations. To register and learn more about the conference program, visit our website at http://ieeevis.org, follow us on Twitter <http://twitter.com/ieeevis>, like our Facebook page <http://www.facebook.com/ieeevis>, or visit our LinkedIn page <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-VIS-4469236?home=&gid=4469236&trk=anet…> . CONTACT: Laura Wolf (Argonne National Laboratory) IEEE Visualization 2015 Coordinating Chair info(a)ieeevis.org Best regards, - Jian ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Prof. CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen/index.html

1 0

Summer internships for PhD students
by Yifan Hu 12 Oct '15

12 Oct '15

Yahoo Labs is looking for outstanding PhD interns for Summer 2016! Candidates must have a strong background and implementation skill in visualization and data mining. The candidates will have the opportunity to work with web-scale data to research and to solve real world problem. See http://bit.ly/1jk5dAX for more details. ___________________________________________________ Yifan HuYahoo Labs

1 0

EuroVis 2016 CFP
by Meghan Haley 11 Oct '15

11 Oct '15

******** EUROVIS 2016 ******** EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization June 6-10, 2016 Groningen, The Netherlands http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/ <http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/> EuroVis 2016, hosted by the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, is the 18th annual visualization gathering organized by the Eurographics Working Group on Data Visualization and supported by the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (IEEE VGTC). EuroVis has been a Eurographics and IEEE co-supported international visualization symposium held in Europe annually since 1999. EuroVis has been a conference since 2014. Authors are invited to submit original work presenting fundamental research, practice and experience, or novel applications in all areas of visualization and related topics. EuroVis full papers are published as a special issue of Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), the International Journal of the Eurographics Association, using a two-stage review process. Also, State-of-the-Art Reports (STARs) will undergo a two-stage review process and for the first time all accepted STARs will be published in Computer Graphics Forum. EuroVis Short Papers will be electronically archived in the Eurographics Digital Library and are fully citable publications. ** Important dates (http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/ForSubmitters/ImportantDates <http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/ForSubmitters/ImportantDates>): Full Paper Abstracts: Friday 4 December 2015 Full Papers: Friday 11 December 2015 STAR sketch: Friday 11 December 2015 STAR invitation to submit: Wednesday 23 December 2015 Full STARs: Sunday 14 February 2016 Short Papers: Friday 19 February 2016 Posters: Friday 8 April 2016 Please note that an abstract submission is required one week before the full papers deadline to assist the papers chairs in allocating reviewers and ensure that the review process runs to time. Also, for STARs a short sketch is required that will be reviewed for suitability and relevance by the STAR chairs. ** Committees (http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/Organization <http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/Organization>): General Chair Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen, the Netherlands Papers Chairs Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California at Davis, USA Giuseppe Santucci, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Jarke van Wijk, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands STARs Chairs Ross Maciejewski, Arizona State University, USA Timo Ropinski, Ulm University, Germany Anna Vilanova, TU Delft, the Netherlands Short Papers Chairs Enrico Bertini, New York University, USA Niklas Elmqvist, University of Maryland, USA Thomas Wischgoll, Wright University, USA Posters Chairs Tobias Isenberg, INRIA, France Filip Sadlo, University of Heidelberg, Germany

1 0

Call for Papers: Diagrams 2016 (9th Int'l Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams)
by Stephanie Schwartz 08 Oct '15

08 Oct '15

Call for Papers: Diagrams 2016 Ninth International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2016 diagrams2016(a)diagrams-conference.org<mailto:diagrams2016@diagrams-conference.org> 7th to 10th August, 2016 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA * CALL FOR PAPERS * Diagrams is an international interdisciplinary conference series, covering all aspects of research on the theory and application of diagrams. In 2016 it will be held near Philadelphia at the ACE Conference Center in Lafayette, Pennsylvania, USA. Diagrams 2016 will run from 7th of August 2016 to the 10th of August 2016. It will be co-located with Spatial Cognition 2016<http://sites.temple.edu/sc16/> (2-5 August) and Cognitive Science 2016<http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference_future.html> (10-13 August). Diagrams is the only conference series that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams, including architecture, artificial intelligence, biology, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. The conference attracts a large number of researchers from almost all these related fields, positioning Diagrams as the major international event in the area. Diagrams 2016 is the ninth conference in the bi-annual series that started in 2000. Diagrams 2016 will include presentations of refereed papers, posters, tutorials, workshop sessions, and a graduate symposium. We invite submissions that focus on any aspect of diagrams research, as follows: - long research papers (15 pages) - short research papers (7 pages) - posters (3 pages) - tutorial proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - workshop proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - graduate symposium submissions (3 pages; see the conference web page for full details) All submissions will be fully peer reviewed. The proceedings, which will include accepted long and short papers and posters, will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, http://www.springer.com/lncs. Submissions will be administered via Easychair with details following on the conference web site. Full details on the preparation of submissions can be found on the conference web site. Conference topics include, but are not limited to: - applications of diagrams - computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagrams - design of diagrammatic notations - diagram understanding by humans or machines - diagram aesthetics and layout - educational uses of diagrams - evaluation of diagrammatic notations - graphical communication and literacy - heterogeneous notations involving diagrams - history of diagrammatic notations - information visualization using diagrams - nature of diagrams and diagramming - novel technologies for diagram use - psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension or production of diagrams - software to support the use of diagrams - usability and human-computer interaction issues concerning diagrams * Submission Dates * Abstract submissions: 4 January 2016 Paper and poster submissions: 11 January 2016 Workshop proposal submissions: 18 January 2016 Tutorial proposal submissions: 18 January 2016 Initial Paper Notification (for rebuttal): 19 February 2016 Final Paper Notification: 14 March 2016 Graduate symposium submissions: 21 March 2016 Conference dates: 7 to 10 August 2016 * Organising Committee * General Chair: Stephanie Schwartz (Millersville University, USA) Program Chairs: Mateja Jamnik (The University of Cambridge, UK), Yuri Uesaka (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Local Chair: Richard Burns (West Chester University, USA) Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Aidan Delaney (The University of Brighton, UK) Graduate Symposium Chair: Luana Micallef (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland)

1 0

Postdoctoral Research Position in Interactive Text Visualization
by Dr Christopher Eric Weaver PhD 07 Oct '15

07 Oct '15

The Digital Latin Library project at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a post-doctoral research position in interactive text visualization. The DLL project is led by Drs. Sam Huskey (Classics), June Abbas (Library & Information Science), and Chris Weaver (Computer Science). Dr. Weaver will serve as primary mentor. We seek a post-doctoral researcher with a background in information visualization, visual analytics, and/or human computer interaction. The ideal candidate will have a PhD and an excellent research track record in a relevant field such as computer science, data science, information science, or digital humanities. Substantial experience with user-centered design and rigorous evaluation of interactive visualization tools is essential. Experience with implementation of interactive visualization tools is also highly desired. Duties and responsibilities will include planning and execution of funded research projects, supervision of graduate and undergraduate research assistants, writing and presentation of research results in academic journals and at scientific conferences, and active participation in a large, collaborative research project. Teaching opportunities may be available if desired. This is a full time, non-tenure position, with renewal dependent upon performance and availability of funds. Support for the position is currently available through the end of June 2017. To apply, send your application, including CV and references, to weaver(a)cs.ou.edu. Please include a one-page statement of your research motivation and interests. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer. Protected veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

1 0