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IEEE VGTC Chair Election Begins on April 15, 2015: Check your VGTC membership
by Christopher Collins 29 Mar '15

29 Mar '15

Forwarding on behalf of Huamin Qu huamin(a)cse.ust.hk<mailto:huamin@cse.ust.hk>: Dear all, The Visualization and Computer Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) is electing its new chair and you are invited to cast your vote. The election period will begin on April 15, 2015 and will remain open for 15 days until April 30. The new Chair's term will run from May 1, 2015 through April 30, 2017. The main elections page at http://vgtc.org/content/vgtc-2015-chair-elections will link to the voting once the elections open, and contains all of the information below. Following a 3-month community-wide solicitation period the VGTC chair nomination committee composed of the VGTC directors, after careful deliberation, nominated the following two candidates to serve as the next VGTC chair: Mark Livingston (please see bio and statement at http://vgtc.org/content/vgtc-chair-candidate-mark-livingston) Claudio Silva (please see bio and statement at http://vgtc.org/content/vgtc-chair-candidate-cl%C3%A1udio-silva) Please note that in order to vote in the VGTC elections, you must be a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the VGTC. Since the IEEE has only this year eliminated its recurrent practice of asking for annual renewal of VGTC membership, you are strongly encouraged to explicitly check your VGTC membership to ensure that you are properly enrolled before April 15, when the election will begin. All enrolled members will receive an email on specific information on how to vote. To check your membership, please log in at https://www.ieee.org/profile/membershipandsubscription/showMembershipsAndSu… and see if you have the following two items listed under Memberships and marked as active: "IEEE Computer Society Membership" and "Visualization and Graphics, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on" Note that VGTC membership is completely free for IEEE CS members. The cost of IEEE CS membership is $56 (or between $8 and $13 if you are a student, depending on where you live) if you are already an IEEE member, or $125 if you are not an IEEE member. The cost of IEEE membership ranges from $80 to $193 for professional members, or from $27 to $37 for students, depending on where you live. You can join IEEE here: http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/join You can join IEEE CS here: https://www.ieee.org/membership-catalog/productdetail/showProductDetailPage… You can join the VGTC for free here: https://www.ieee.org/membership-catalog/productdetail/showProductDetailPage… The VGTC sponsors or co-sponsors several major conferences in the field of Visualization and Computer Graphics -- VIS, VR, ISMAR, 3DUI, Pacific Vis, EuroVis. You probably have attended one more of these in the past and hopefully will attend them in the future. The VGTC's mission is to facilitate a vibrant community for researchers and practitioners in this field and to encourage new talent to join in. The VGTC recognizes technical achievements at all levels through a set of annual awards, ranging from career to technical to dissertation awards. Its community website http://vgtc.org offers archives of a growing set of conferences, videos of the talks, and much more. You are very much invited and encouraged to participate in the discussion forums that have been established for each paper. Best, Huamin Qu Secretary of the VGTC Executive Committee

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Open PhD and MS positions in Visual Analytics, Sabanci University, Istanbul
by Selim Balcisoy 28 Mar '15

28 Mar '15

We have two fully-funded PhD and MS scholarships in Computer Graphics Laboratory, Sabanci University, Istanbul. The project is funded by TUBITAK (Turkish NSF) and will focus on the following topics: - Physical visualizations and tangible interaction models - Spatial augmented reality More information on the lab: http://graphics.sabanciuniv.edu Please apply directly to Sabanci University before May 8, 2105. Online application link: http://www.sabanciuniv.edu/en/admission-requirements-for-graduate-school-of… Keywords: Physical Visualizations, Spatio-temporal data, Big Data Analytics, Augmented Reality, HCI -- Selim Balcısoy Sabancı University Orhanlı Tuzla Istanbul - Turkey voice: +90 216 4839569 fax: +90 216 4839550 email: balcisoy(a)sabanciuniv.edu url: graphics.sabanciuniv.edu linkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/selim-balcisoy/2/122/985

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EuroVis 2015 - REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
by Meghan Haley 25 Mar '15

25 Mar '15

******** EUROVIS 2015 -- REGISTRATION IS OPEN! ******** EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization May 25th to 29th, 2015 Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy http://www.eurovis2015.it EuroVis 2015, hosted by CRS4 in Italy, is the 17th 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. Since 2014 EuroVis is a conference. EuroVis2015 will take place from May 25th to May 29th in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. May 25th-26th will be dedicated to co-located events, while the main conference will open on Tuesday, May 26th and close on Friday, May 29th. The conference opening with the paper fast forward will be on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 26th. This year's co-located events are: EGPGV, the Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization EuroVA, the sixth international Eurovis workshop on Visual Analytics EnvirVis, the EuroVis workshop on Visualization in Environmental Sciences EuroRVVV, the third international EuroVis Workshop on Reproducibility, Verification, and Validation in Visualization *** REGISTRATION === REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Please note: the discounted === 'Early-bird' rates are available until April 30th. === After that date full conference rates will apply. === Discounted rates are available for students, EG members, and IEEE members. === Co-located events only, Conference only, and Full Week registration options are available === See http://www.eurovis2015.it/for-attendees/registration/ for details. *** FURTHER INFORMATION Full details on the conference, co-located events and program can be found through the conference web site at: http://www.eurovis2015.it/ Travel to Cagliari is very easy, with a number of options available. Details on travel options can be found here: http://www.eurovis2015.it/for-attendees/travel Conference Chair (chair-ev2015(a)crs4.it) Enrico Gobbetti, CRS4, Italy Local Organization (local-ev2015(a)crs4.it) Fabio Bettio, CRS4, Italy Enrico Gobbetti, CRS4, Italy Secretariat (secretariat-ev2015(a)crs4.it) Katia Brigaglia, CRS4, Italy Cinzia Sardu, CRS4, Italy

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2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR) at JCDL 2015
by Mutschke, Peter 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

CALL FOR PAPERS Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR) Workshop at JCDL 2015 June 24 or June 25 (tba.) 2015, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA Submission page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kmir2015 (submission instructions see below) Workshop page: http://www.gesis.org/en/events/conferences/kmir2015/ (coming up Monday) Conference page: http://www.jcdl2015.org Abstract: Knowledge maps are promising tools for visualizing the structure of large-scale information spaces, but still far away from being applicable for searching. The workshop aims at bringing together experts in IR and knowledge mapping in order to discuss the potential of interactive knowledge maps for information seeking purposes. Motivation, Goals, Objectives, Outcome The success of an information system depends mainly on its ability to properly support interaction between users and information. Current information systems, however, show as a particular point of failure the vagueness between user search terms and the knowledge orders of the information space in question (Mayr et al. 2008, Mutschke et al. 2011). Studies in interactive information seeking behavior have confirmed that the ability to browse an information space and observe similarities and dissimilarities between information objects is crucial for accidental encountering and the creative use of information (Nicholas et al. 2004, Westerman et al. 2005). This is in particular true for heterogeneous information spaces within the open web. Some kind of guided searching therefore becomes more and more important in order to precisely discover information without knowing the right search terms. Yet, this seems to remain the weakest point of interactive information systems (Ford 2000, Foster 2004, Tang 2007). Knowledge mapping encompasses all attempts to use visualizations to gain insights into the structure and evolution of large-scale information spaces. Knowledge maps can take the form of network visualizations, treemaps or specific, map like arrangements of search results (cf. Börner et al. 2003, Shiffrin/Börner 2004, Börner 2010, Klavans/Boyack 2010, Skupin et al. 2013, Sahal et al. 2013, Boyack/Klavans 2013). As an activity performed in very different disciplines - and often independent from each other - it stands in line with the dominance of the visual in our culture (Manovich 2009). Knowledge maps of digital library collections are promising navigation tools through knowledge spaces but - to the best of our knowledge - still far away from being applicable for searching digital libraries. Most maps are made for special purposes, are static, and usually not interactive (Akdag Salah et al. 2012). In interactive information systems the use of visual elements to enhance information seeking and discovery is a recurring research issue. However, not much of the experiences made in knowledge mapping have ever been implemented in online interfaces to digital libraries and collections (Börner/Chen 2001), nor is there a stable and continuous knowledge exchange between the "map makers" on the one hand and the Information Retrieval (IR) specialists on the other hand. Thus, there is also a lack of models that properly combine insights of the two strands, which are driven by quite different epistemic perspectives. Our workshop aims at bringing together these two communities: experts in IR reflecting on visual enhanced search interfaces and experts in knowledge mapping reflecting on visualizations of the content of a collection that might also present - visually - a context for a search term. The intention of the workshop is to raise awareness of the potential of interactive knowledge maps for information seeking purposes and to create a common ground for experiments aiming at the incorporation of knowledge maps into IR models at the level of the user interface. The major focus of the workshop is on the question of how knowledge maps can be utilized for scholarly information seeking in large information spaces. Our interests include interactive IR, information seeking behavior, knowledge mapping, science modelling, information visualization, and digital libraries. The workshop is closely related to the COST action KNOWeSCAPE (Analyzing the dynamics of information and knowledge landscapes: http://knowescape.org/<http://www.gesis.org/http:/>) which aims at implementing new navigation and search strategies based on insights of the complex nature of knowledge spaces as well as visualization principles for knowledge maps. The proposed workshop can tie up to the success of the first international workshop on "Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR)", held as part of the DL 2014 in London (see http://www.gesis.org/en/events/events-archive/conferences/kmir2014/ or workshop proceedings: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1311) The long-term research goal is to develop and evaluate new approaches for combining knowledge mapping and IR. More specifically, we address questions such as: * What are appropriate interactive knowledge maps for IR systems * How can knowledge maps be utilized for information seeking purposes? * How to locate an information need on a knowledge map? * How can (visually enhanced) search interfaces to knowledge maps look like? * How can interaction with knowledge maps be transformed into IR tasks? * Can knowledge maps improve searching in large, in particular heterogeneous, cross-language, cross-domain information spaces? * And the other way around: Can insights from IR also improve knowledge mapping itself? The availability of new IR test collections that contain citation and bibliographic information like the iSearch collection (see Lykke et al. 2010) or the ACL collection (Ritchie et al. 2006) could deliver an interesting playground for developing or evaluating combined models of IR and knowledge mapping for scholarly searching. Topical Outline To support the previously described goals the workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Knowledge maps for digital libraries * Knowledge orders of information spaces * Information seeking behaviour * Information discovery * Interactive IR systems * Human-computer IR * Knowledge Visualization in IR * Visual interfaces to information systems * Browsing and navigating information spaces * Task based user modelling, interaction and personalization * Evaluation of interactive IR systems. Types of Submissions * Full Papers (6 to 8 pages): Full papers, describing advanced or completed work * Short Papers (4 pages): Position papers or work in progress * Poster and Demonstrations (2 pages): Poster and Presentation of systems or prototypes All submissions must be written in English following the Springer LNCS Author Guidelines (http://www.springer.com/lncs) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kmir2015. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. At least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program. Important Dates * Submission deadline: May 3, 2015 * Notification of acceptance: May 24, 2015 * Workshop: June 24 or June 25 (tba.), 2015 Output Printed proceedings will be distributed to all attendees. In addition, workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - This way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long term preservation). Program Committee * Alkim Almila Akdag Salah, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) * Nicholas J. Belkin, Rutgers University (USA) * Edward A. Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (USA) * Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) * Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science (Denmark) * Claus-Peter Klas, University of Hagen (Germany) * Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science (Denmark) * Vivien Petras, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany) * André Skupin, San Diego State University (USA) * Catherine L. Smith, Kent State University (USA) * Howard D. White, Drexel University (USA) Organizers * Peter Mutschke (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany) * Andrea Scharnhorst (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) / Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), Amsterdam / The Hague, The Netherlands) * Philipp Mayr (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany) * Preben Hansen (University of Stockholm, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Sweden) * Aida Slavic (UDC Consortium, The Hague, The Netherlands) Kind regards, Peter Mutschke --- Acting Head of Department Dep. Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences (WTS) GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 Köln Tel.: +49(0)221 / 47694 -500 Fax: +49(0)221 / 47694 -8500 Mail: peter.mutschke(a)gesis.org<mailto:peter.mutschke@gesis.org> www.gesis.org<http://www.gesis.org/>

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Correction: Reminder: IEEE VIS (InfoVis / VAST / SciVis): Abstract due TOMORROW (Mandatory)
by Jian Chen 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

Please note that the abstract submission is mandatory and is due* tomorrow (March 21st)!* Please follow the link below for submission information. 26th IEEE Scientific Visualization Conference (SciVis) CFP: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/scivis-papers 21st IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis) CFP: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/infovis-papers 10th IEEE Visual Analytics Science & Technology Conference (VAST) CFP: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/vast-papers Paper abstracts submission (mandatory): March 21, 2015 Paper submission: March 31, 2015 Contact: papers(a)ieeevis.org <infovis_papers(a)ieeevis.org> For the full conference, please visit us: IEEE VIS 2015 http://ieeevis.org/ 25 - 30 October, 2015 Chicago, Illinois, USA Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ieeevis (spread the news) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis (please ‘like’ us) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-VIS-4469236?home=&gid=4469236&trk=anet… Thanks, -- Jian ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Prof. CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen

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Reminder: IEEE VIS (InfoVis / VAST / SciVis): Abstract due today (Mandatory)
by Jian Chen 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

*Please note that the abstract submission is mandatory and is due today!* Please follow the link below for submission information. 26th IEEE Scientific Visualization Conference (SciVis) CFP: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/scivis-papers 21st IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis) CFP: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/infovis-papers 10th IEEE Visual Analytics Science & Technology Conference (VAST) CFP: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/vast-papers Paper abstracts submission (mandatory): March 21, 2015 Paper submission: March 31, 2015 Contact: papers(a)ieeevis.org <infovis_papers(a)ieeevis.org> For the full conference, please visit us: IEEE VIS 2015 http://ieeevis.org/ 25 - 30 October, 2015 Chicago, Illinois, USA Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ieeevis (spread the news) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis (please ‘like’ us) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-VIS-4469236?home=&gid=4469236&trk=anet… Thanks, -- Jian ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Prof. CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen

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PhD position in Visual Analytics at the University of Montpellier, France
by Arnaud Sallaberry 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

DATA MINING AND INFORMATION VISUALIZATION FOR FACILITATING THE MEDICAL ANALYSIS OF PATIENT MOVEMENT Applications are invited for a funded PhD studentship in Visual Analytics in the department of Computer Science at the University of Montpellier, France. http://www.lirmm.fr/~sallaberry/supervision/jobs/PhD-position.pdf Location: LIRMM Lab (http://www.lirmm.fr/lirmm_eng) Montpellier, France Supervisors: * Jerome Aze, Professor at LIRMM, University of Montpellier. * Arnaud Sallaberry, Assistant Professor at LIRMM, University Paul Valery Montpellier. Context: Recent technologies such as Kinect, Wiiboard, Tablet, Joypad, eye tracking devices, etc., enable to record patient's behavior. For medicine, analyzing this behavior is a key to establish efficient diagnostics and better design recovery good practices. To perform a strong diagnostic, data generated by recording devices (body movements, eye movements, etc.) has to be analyzed taking account of the patient background (health problem, personal information, etc.). In this context, therapists are confronted to large amount of heterogeneous data and their analyses require automatic methods. The difficulty lies not in generating but rather in sifting through this mass raw of data in order to discover patterns. This thesis focuses on designing data mining and information visualization techniques to create interfaces helping healthcare professionals to understand the data. Subject: A number of issues associated with the design of such interfaces will be examined in the context of this thesis in order to provide therapists with the tools necessary to perform their analyses. It is of utmost importance that these interfaces be as simple and intuitive as possible, as a misinterpretation of the data due to imperfect interface design could hamper the rehabilitation process. It is for this reason that an in-depth study of knowledge discovery methods must be undertaken by experts in data mining, information visualization and human-computer interaction, in close collaboration with therapists. How to apply: Interested candidates are requested to send an application by e-mail to Dr. Arnaud Sallaberry, (arnaud.sallaberry(a)lirmm.fr) and Pr. Jerome Aze (jerome.aze(a)lirmm.fr) with the subject field: '[PhD position] Visual Analytics'. The application should consist of a motivation letter, a curriculum vitae including major achievements, and two or more recommendation letters. Application deadline: May 1st, 2015 If you have any questions please contact Dr. Arnaud Sallaberry, (arnaud.sallaberry(a)lirmm.fr) and Pr. Jerome Aze (jerome.aze(a)lirmm.fr)

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Instructor needed to teach Information Visualization for the School of Information, San Jose State University
by H. Michelle Chen 14 Mar '15

14 Mar '15

I am looking for an instructor for Fall 2015 who would teach a class in Information Visualization for the School of Information at San Jose State University. Our programs are delivered in a 100% asynchronous online format so location is unimportant. Fall runs from August 20th to December 8th. The class will be taught as part of our interdisciplinary Advanced Certificate in Big Data. The students will be in a workplace renewal grant - engineers who are retooling. Here is information about the content. This course would focus on the state of the art in the field of information visualization. Topics may include (but are not limited to): the evolution of information visualization, the perceptual properties and design principles of information visualization, different data analysis methods using visualizations, hands-on applications of visualization software and techniques, interaction and interface design issues, and emerging trends such as social visualization and visual analytics. The ultimate goal of this course is to provide the students with a powerful tool to better process, analyze, and communicate information in the specific domain of their own interests. We use the Canvas Learning Management system. You will have an online training class with our Director for Online Learning. The class caps at 30. Salary for an instructor with a Ph.D degree is $6142; for a masters degree: $5149; payable at the end. If interested please send a resume and outline how your background and experience would work well for this topic to me at hsuanwei.chen(a)sjsu.edu. Thanks for considering it. Best, Michelle -- *Hsuanwei Michelle Chen, Ph.D.*Assistant Professor, School of Information San Jose State University One Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192 http://ischool.sjsu.edu/

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IEEE VIS CFP
by Jian Chen 06 Mar '15

06 Mar '15

IEEE VIS 2015 http://ieeevis.org/ 25 - 30 October, 2015 Chicago, Illinois, USA Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ieeevis (spread the news) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis (please ‘like’ us) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-VIS-4469236?home=&gid=4469236&trk=anet… *** What you will find in this email: 1. Call for papers 2. Co-located symposia and workshops 3. Tutorials 4. Panels (!!! NEW !!!) 5. VAST and SciVis contest 6. Doctoral Colloquium 7. Art Program (!!! NEW !!!) 8. Location 9. Chairs Please note that some deadlines are much earlier than previous years. *** CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION IEEE VIS 2015 is the premier forum for advances in visualization. The event-packed week brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to explore their shared interests in tools, techniques, and technology. We invite you to participate in IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis), and IEEE Scientific Visualization (SciVis) by sharing your research, insights, experience, and enthusiasm. FULL PAPERS We solicit high quality papers in all areas related to all areas of visualization including information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics in three tracks. This year, the scientific visualization conference (SciVis), as well as The Visualization Analytics Science & Technology COnference will include both TVCG track and conference-only track. For more information, visit 26th IEEE Scientific Visualization Conference (SciVis) CFP: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/scivis-papers 21st IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis) CFP: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/infovis-papers 10th IEEE Visual Analytics Science & Technology Conference (VAST) CFP: http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/vast-papers Paper abstracts submission (mandatory): March 21, 2015 Paper submission: March 31, 2015 Contact: papers(a)ieeevis.org <infovis_papers(a)ieeevis.org> CO-LOCATED SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS - The 6th IEEE Sympoisum on Large-scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV): http://ldav.org - Data Science Symposium: TBD - Visualization for Cyber Security Workshop (VizSec): http://www.vizsec.org/ - VAST Challenge Workshop: http://www.vacommunity.org <http://www.vacommunity.org/tiki-index.php> (Contact: vast-challenge(a)ieeevis.org) WORKSHOPS We solicit workshops related to all areas of visualization including information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics. The workshops venue at IEEE VIS 2015 provides an informal setting for participants to discuss advanced technical topics in visualization, involve experts in the field, disseminate work in progress, and promote new ideas. Workshops should emphasize emerging ideas, concepts, or technologies that are currently too nascent or too interdisciplinary for a full symposium, or bring together experts on a subject to create a report, white-paper, or proposal requiring interactive work sessions that is of potential interest to a substantial segment of the visualization community. A distinction that separates workshops from tutorials is that the information flow for a workshop should not be directed solely from the presenters to the audience. Rather, workshops should engage the participation of all attendees. Workshops at IEEE VIS are open to all registered attendees and 'invitation only' workshops will not be approved. Submission deadline: April 30, 2015 Contact: workshops(a)ieeevis.org Workshop: VAST CHALLENGE The VAST Challenge provides realistic problems and datasets to showcase the effectiveness of tools and methods in the domain of visual analytics. The contest collects several entries of varying complexity, aimed at allowing students, researchers, practitioners, and industry to benchmark their tools in a replicated way. Submission deadline: TBD Contact: vast-challenge(a)ieeevis.org TUTORIALS Tutorials are intended to cover a wide selection of topics related to IEEE VIS 2015 and provide background on new tools and application domains necessary for research in data and information visualization and visual analytics. Tutorial attendees come from diverse backgrounds, including volume visualization and rendering, information visualization, geographic visualization, visual analytics, high performance computing, and scientific application communities. We are soliciting half-day tutorial proposals in the areas of visualization systems, mathematical foundations, methods, and application areas. We welcome course proposals that introduce emerging technologies to the visualization community, as well as proposals on more traditional visualization topics. Topics can include--but are not limited to--any of those listed in the calls for papers for VAST, InfoVis, and SciVis. Tutorials with an application focus are also encouraged. For more information, visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/tutorials. Submission deadline: April 30, 2015 (Please note the new date) Contact: tutorials(a)ieeevis.org PANELS Panels address important and/or controversial applications and issues in scientific and information visualization and visual analytics today. In particular, we invite topics in connection with interesting application fields. Panels bringing together potential users of visualization technology (e.g. practitioners and industry professionals) and leading researchers, or panels consisting of experts in fields that might teach us important concepts (e.g. perceptual psychology, visual design, color theory, user-interface design) are welcome. For more information, please visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/panels. Submission deadline: June 15, 2015 Contact: panels(a)ieeevis.org. SCIVIS CONTEST The 2015 IEEE Scientific Visualization Contest will be an official part of IEEE VIS 2015. Each year, the contest presents researchers from the visualization community an opportunity to transfer the latest developments in visualizing a challenging application scenario. For more information, visit http://darksky.slac.stanford.edu/scivis2015/. Submission deadline: TBD Contact: scivis_contest(a)ieeevis.org DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM The doctoral colloquium (DC) is a single-day invitation-only event taking place the day before IEEE VIS 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. For more information, visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/doctoral-colloquium. Submission deadline: May 10, 2015 Contact: doctoral_coll(a)ieeevis.org ART PROGRAM The theme for VISAP’15 is data Improvisations. Artists and visualization researchers share common goals: to make things visible which are normally difficult to see; and to enable reasoning about information that we might otherwise remain ignorant of. For more information, visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/arts-program. Submission deadline: June 15, 2015 Contact: art(a)ieeevis.org VIS 2015 LOCATION The conference venue, the Palmer House Hilton, is a historic hotel located in the heart of downtown Chicago, the third largest city in the United States and home to world-class architecture, museums, parks, and restaurants. VIS 2015 GENERAL CHAIRS Michael E. Papka, Argonne National Laboratory and Northern Illinois University Maxine Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago VIS 2015 PROGRAM CHAIRS Gautam Chaudhary, Alcon LenSx Inc. Terry Yoo, National Institutes of Health Contact: program(a)ieeevis.org VIS 2015 PAPER CHAIRS Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research (InfoVis) Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis (InfoVis) Melanie Tory, University of Victoria (InfoVis) James Ahrens, Los Alamos National Laboratory (SciVis) Huamin Qu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (SciVis) Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen (SciVis) Gennady Adrienko, Fraunhofer IAIS and City University London (VAST) Min Chen, Oxford University (VAST) Best regards, - Jian ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Prof. CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen

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PhD studentship: Interactive Visualization of Biological Pathways (EE/DRFCOM7P/61931)
by Sara Johansson Fernstad 02 Mar '15

02 Mar '15

INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION OF BIOLOGICAL PATHWAYS Applications are invited for a funded PhD studentship in Information Visualization/Biological Data Visualization in the Department of Computer Science and Digital Technologies at Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=61931&LID=2315 ABOUT THE PROJECT Technological advances are constantly increasing the amount and complexity of data that are gathered in both scientific and industrial domains. Biology and biomedicine are examples of areas that in recent years have become increasingly data driven. Information Visualization techniques utilize interactive and visual representations to facilitate the understanding of structures and gaining of insights from large and complex data. Visualization may act as a link between complex biological data and the human interpreter and has, through this, become crucial for gaining insights from biological data. The growing interest in Biological Data Visualization is supported through initiatives such as VizBi (vizbi.org) BioVis (biovis.net) and BiVi (bivi.co). Biological networks, such as metabolic pathways, can be seminal tools in understanding biological functions and processes. However, such pathways are often large and complex, making them difficult to overview and interpret. The gaining of insights may be further obfuscated by the large number of pathways that can be related to a biological phenomena of interest, as well as by substantial amounts of meta-data that have the potential to further increase understanding of the biological process if included in the analysis. Building on the supervisory team’s previous work in multivariate data visualization, biological visualization and bioinformatics this project will address some of the challenges involved in gaining insights and understanding into biological processes, by developing novel interactive visualization methods for exploration of biological pathways. Particularly by investigating how common visual representations of pathways can be extended to facilitate the gaining of further insights into biological phenomena, while improving the usability of such representations and through this support human interpretation and understanding of complex biological phenomena. This project will suit a candidate who has experience of visualization/visual analytics, HCI, data mining and object oriented programming. APPLICATION AND ENQUIRIES Application deadline: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 For further details of the project and how to apply, see http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=61931&LID=2315 For further details about the University and Department, see https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/ https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-northumbria/visit-northumbria/life-i… https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/academic-departments/computer-scienc… Enquiries regarding this studentship should be made to: Dr Sara Johansson Fernstad, sara.fernstad(a)northumbria.ac.uk<mailto:sara.fernstad@northumbria.ac.uk>

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