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preliminary job announcement: PostDon on visual analytics and visual data science @ Univ Bonn / Fraunhofer IAIS
by Andrienko, Gennady 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Dear all, In a few days we are going to announce a 3-years PostDoc (preferably) or PhD position in our group in Germany, with research topics on sport analytics (football) and social media analysis. Details are in the attached preliminary job announcement. The key publication on the recent/ongoing work related to the project are: * Constructing Spaces and Times for Tactical Analysis in Football IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2019, vol. ?(?), pp.??? (accepted) https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2019.2952129 * Visual Analysis of Pressure in Football Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2017, vol. 31(6), pp.1793-1839 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10618-017-0513-2 * Coordinate Transformations for Characterization and Cluster Analysis of Spatial Configurations in Football ECML PKDD 2016, Part III, LNAI 9853, pp.27-31 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46131-1_6 If you are interested, contact me via email asap. Best wishes, Gennady

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Open position for Chair in Design Informatics, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
by benjamin bach 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

Dear Colleagues, Applications are invited from world-leading researchers for the recently established Chair in Design Informatics in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. The holder of the Chair will serve as co-director of the Centre of Design Informatics (https://www.designinformatics.org) a joint venture between the School of Informatics and the Edinburgh College of Art. This is a full-time open-ended appointment at the rank of professor. The Chair's research profile will combine expertise in one of the subfields of informatics with a track record of teaching, research, and leadership in design. Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to • Health care informatics • Human-computer interaction and human-data interaction • Visualization and computer graphics • Privacy and security, internet of things • Human-centric AI and social informatics • Language, speech, vision, multimodal computing, and robotics Closing date: March 4, 2020, 5pm GMT Web-1: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.disp… Web-2: https://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/news-events/stories/2019/informatics-searc… <https://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/news-events/stories/2019/informatics-searc…> Further information below. Please circulate widely and let Prof. Frank Keller (keller(a)inf.ed.ac.uk) know if you have any questions. Best Regards, Benjamin Bach ------------------ Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Design Informatics and Visualization School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh http://benjbach.me <http://benjbach.me/> https://visualinteractivedata.github.io <https://visualinteractivedata.github.io/> *************************************** All applications must contain the following supporting documents: • Teaching statement • Research statement • Full CV (resume) and publication list Feedback will only be provided to interviewed candidates. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Prof Frank Keller (keller(a)inf.ed.ac.uk) Visits to Edinburgh and to the School of Informatics will be arranged for short-listed candidates, in advance of the interview date. The role is grade UE10 and attracts an annual salary on the Professorial scale. The closing date is 4 March 2020 at 5pm GMT. Further Information Design informatics develops concepts, systems, and devices that allow humans to interact better with technology and data, and with each other. It combines design thinking with computational and data-driven methodologies in areas such as internet of things, security and privacy, robotics, speech and language, visualisation and graphics, computational social science, and cognitive science. Design informatics is at the core of innovation in the 21st century, creating technology that makes our lives safer, cleaner, healthier, fairer, and more productive. The Centre for Design Informatics is a collaboration between the School of Informatics and the Edinburgh College of Art. It brings together faculty from both Schools and is located in the newly built Bayes Centre and in InSpace, which hosts lab space and public engagement facilities. Over the last five years, Design Informatics in Edinburgh has established a distinctive profile, attracted considerable funding from research councils, government, and industry, and built a substantial cohort of master's and PhD students. We are now seeking a world-leading researcher who will take Design Informatics to the next level. They will act as co-director of the Centre of Design Informatics, provide research leadership, spearhead funding initiatives, and develop design informatics teaching. They are also expected to play a significant outreach role, through public engagement and industry contacts. The successful candidate will have a vision for how to develop design informatics both as a field and within the Edinburgh ecosystem, which includes initiatives such as the Bayes Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, the Edinburgh Futures Institute, and the Edinburgh City Region Deal, which focuses on data-driven innovation. As well as providing research leadership in and beyond the Centre for Design Informatics, the Chair will contribute to postgraduate teaching, undergraduate courses, curriculum development and the supervision of PhD students. The Chair will be based in the School of Informatics, but will work with designers, data scientists, technologists and researchers across the University, and with external public and private sector partners. The Chair's research profile will combine expertise in one of the subfields of informatics with a track record of teaching, research, and leadership in design. Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Health care informatics • Human-computer interaction and human-data interaction • Visualization and computer graphics • Privacy and security, internet of things • Human-centric AI and social informatics • Language, speech, vision, multimodal computing, and robotics The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh is one of the largest in Europe, with more than 120 academic staff and a total of over 500 post-doctoral researchers, research students and support staff. Informatics at Edinburgh rated highest on Research Power in the most recent Research Excellence Framework. The School has strong links with industry, with dedicated business incubator space and well-established enterprise and business development programmes. The School of Informatics has recently established the Bayes Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, which provide a locus for fruitful multi-disciplinary work, including a range of companies collocated in it. The School holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance the representation of women in science, mathematics, engineering and technology. We are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions actively promoting LGBT equality.

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ETRA 2020: Call for Short Paper Submissions
by Daniel Weiskopf 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

*** 2020 ACM ETRA Call for Short Paper Submissions *** Submission Deadline: Feb 3, 2020 *** https://etra.acm.org/2020 The 2020 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) will be held in Stuttgart, Germany, June 2-5, 2020. ETRA will gather computer scientists, engineers, and behavioral scientists with the common goal of continuing to move eye tracking research forward. Under the motto "Bridging Communities", ACM ETRA 2020 aims to bring together eye tracking researchers from computer science, psychology, and cognitive science. Therefore, we encourage paper submissions from fields ranging from computer science to psychology and cognition. The full CFP is available online: https://etra.acm.org/2020/cfp.html Important dates for Short Papers (2-4 pages and any number of additional pages for references): * Feb 3, 2020: Paper submission * March 19, 2020: Reviews and notification * April 2, 2020: Camera ready deadline The accepted Short Papers will be published by ACM in the "ETRA Short Papers Proceedings". Eakta Jain (University of Florida), Ralph Radach (University of Wuppertal), Daniel Weiskopf (University of Stuttgart) - Technical Program Chairs, ACM ETRA 2020 -

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open position in HCI
by Claudio Silva 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

*Assistant Professor in Human-Computer Interaction and Music, Tenure Track* New York University’s Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL <https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/marl/>) and Interactive Digital Media (IDM <http://idm.engineering.nyu.edu/>) program are looking for scholars and innovators at the intersection of music, sound, human computer interaction and design. We are seeking applicants willing to help us push disciplinary boundaries and redefine the future of their fields through their research, teaching and outreach. Focus areas include but are not limited to sound and music in VR/MR/AR/XR, gestural and haptic control, interactive generative systems, human-robot interaction, data visualization and sonification, human-in-the-loop computing, and interfaces for people with special needs. This position is part of a significant expansion of both MARL and IDM, including multiple faculty hires and state of the art facilities. A doctoral degree in an applicable field is required. NYU values equity, diversity, and inclusion and especially encourages candidates from historically underrepresented groups to apply. Click Here to Apply For This Opening <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__apply.interfolio.com_7…> Application deadline is January 30, 2020.

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ETVIS 2020: Call for Papers
by Kurzhals Kuno 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Dear colleagues, You are invited to submit relevant manuscripts for consideration in the * Fifth Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS 2020) * June 2-5, 2020, Stuttgart, Germany. For the third time in conjunction with the Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA): https://etra.acm.org/2020 All accepted papers will be published by ACM as part of the Short Paper Proceedings of ETRA 2020. The details are appended and also available at https://etra.acm.org/2020 under co-located events. Please feel free to contact us directly for any further enquiry. Best regards, Kuno Kurzhals (ETH Zurich) Sophie Stellmach (Microsoft Research) Vsevolod Peysakhovich (ISAE-SUPAERO) ??????? *********************************************************************** * Fifth Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS 2020) * * June 2-5, 2020, Stuttgart, Germany * * in conjunction with ACM ETRA 2020 * * https://etra.acm.org/2020 * *********************************************************************** * Contact: etvis2020(a)gmail.com * *********************************************************************** ________________ IMPORTANT DATES ________________ ● Submission Due: Feb 10, 2020 ● Notification: Mar 19, 2020 ● Camera Ready: Apr 2, 2020 All accepted papers will be published by ACM as part of the Short Paper Proceedings of ETRA 2020. ______ SCOPE ______ Technological advances in computer vision algorithms and sensor hardware have greatly reduced the implementational and financial costs of eye tracking. Thus, it is unsurprising to witness a significant increase in its use as a research tool in fields beyond the traditional domains of biological vision, psychology, and neuroscience, in particular, in visualization and human-computer interaction research. One of the key challenges lies in the analysis, interaction, and visualization of complex spatio-temporal datasets of gaze behavior, which is further complicated by complementary datasets such as semantic labels, user interactions and/or accompanying physiological sensor recordings. Ultimately, the research objective is to allow eye tracking data to be effectively interpreted in terms of the observer’s decision-making and cognitive processes. To achieve this, it is necessary to draw upon our current understanding of gaze-behavior across various and related fields, from vision and cognition to visualization. All together eye tracking is an important field to be understood, be it in the sense of data analysis and visualization, interaction, or user-based evaluation of visualization. _______ TOPICS _______ Manuscripts are solicited on the following topics with an emphasis on the relationship between eye tracking and visualization, including but not limited to the following: ? Visualization techniques for eye-movement data (inc. spatio-temporal visualization, evolution of gaze patterns, visual analysis of individual behavior, 2D vs. 3D representations of eye-movement data) ? Visual analytics of gaze behavior (inc. visual data mining, aggregation, clustering techniques, and metrics for eye-movement data) ? Eye-movement data provenance ? Standardized metrics for evaluating gaze interactions with visualization ? Cognitive models for gaze interactions with visualizations ? Novel methods for eye tracking in challenging visualization scenarios ? Uncertainty visualization of gaze data ? Interactive annotation of gaze and stimulus data ? Systems for the visual exploration of eye-movement data ? Eye-tracking studies that evaluate visualization or visual analytics ? Eye tracking in non-WIMP visualization environments, including mobile eye tracking, mobile devices, and large displays ? Visualization of eye-tracking data in mixed and virtual reality (3df & 6df, 360°) ? Visualization applications that rely on eye tracking as an input parameter ____________ SUBMISSIONS ____________ Authors are invited to submit original work complying with the ETRA SHORT PAPER format (up to 4 pages + references). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format to ETVIS through the ETRA submission system: https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=etra Also ensure that the Author Guidelines (https://www.siggraph.org//learn/instructions-authors for SIG sponsored events [sigconf]) are met prior to submission. ________ ORGANIZERS ________ ● Kuno Kurzhals, ETH Zurich, kunok[at]ethz.ch ● Sophie Stellmach, Microsoft Research, sostel[at]microsoft.com ● Vsevolod Peysakhovich, ISAE-SUPAERO, vsevolod.peysakhovich[at]isae-supaero.fr

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Smart Cities postdoctoral positions at NYU
by Claudio Silva 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

Description We seek applicants with a strong record of interdisciplinary work in developing and applying concepts and methods from science, technology, computing, engineering and applied mathematics in the service of urban communities across the globe. Successful applicants are expected to contribute to both methods and foundational knowledge in their core disciplines, as well as to novel data- and technology-driven applications for, e.g., improving the quality of city services; optimizing resource allocation and decision-making by local governments; securing smart urban infrastructure; addressing challenging urban problems including crime, environmental pollution and public health issues; and empowering urban citizens to better their communities and improve their quality of life. We encourage applications in a wide range of areas of specialization, including but not limited to: - Urban machine learning, data science, and AI - Data management, curation, integration, visualization, and analytics - Smart mobility and emerging transportation safety solutions - Cyber-security and privacy in smart cities and critical infrastructure - Urban Internet of Things - Improving city operations and governance through data and technology - Smart and connected health - Assistive devices for navigating urban environments as well as the intersection between these and other relevant areas of research in the smart cities and urban science domains. Successful applicants will be expected to both start new projects and collaborations, as well as engage in existing projects with sponsoring faculty. Smart Cities Postdoctoral Associates are full-time, non-tenured positions for two years, with annual appointments renewed based on satisfactory performance. The positions will be based at CUSP’s state of the art facility in Brooklyn. The starting salary is $75k/year with competitive benefits, plus funds for travel and professional development. The tentative start date is September 1, 2020. *Responsibilities:* Conduct groundbreaking research both independently and as part of interdisciplinary teams; contribute to existing projects under the supervision of sponsoring faculty, and start new projects and research collaborations as appropriate; participate in the development of funded research proposals; build bridges between CUSP and other Tandon/NYU labs, groups, and centers; publish in top venues in smart cities, urban science, and/or their fields of specialization; contribute to scholarly life at CUSP through the organization of seminars, mentoring of students and other service; and teach (or co-teach) one course per academic year. Qualifications Doctoral degree in a relevant field, and an active agenda of research and publication with a strong focus on smart cities, urban science, or other areas with potential for direct application to cities. A record of transitioning research into practice, particularly as applied to critical urban challenges, is desirable. Application Instructions Please submit your curriculum vitae and a brief statement of research interests (no longer than 4 pages) by *February 1st, 2020.* Applicants should also arrange to have three letters of recommendation (to be submitted by the reference writers) by this date. The statement of research interests should mention the names of one or more faculty members from CUSP, or from one of our affiliated research labs, groups, and partner centers, who would have substantial intellectual overlap with the applicant’s interests and likely program of research. Applications received by *February 1st, 2020* will receive full consideration. Any questions may be directed to Daniel Neill ( daniel.neill(a)nyu.edu) Equal Employment Opportunity Statement For people in the EU, click here for information on your privacy rights under GDPR: www.nyu.edu/it/gdpr New York University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. New York University is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its hiring and promotion process without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy or childbirth (or related medical condition), sexual orientation, partnership status, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital, parental or familial status, caregiver status, national origin, ethnicity, alienage or citizenship status, veteran or military status, age, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, domestic violence victim status, unemployment status, or any other legally protected basis. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, persons of minority sexual orientation or gender identity, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply for vacant positions at all levels.

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[Final CFP] Big Data Visual Exploration & Analytics workshop (BigVis 2020) @ EDBT 2020 Copenhagen
by Nikos Bikakis 27 Dec '19

27 Dec '19

Call for Papers BigVis 2020: 3rd International Workshop on Big Data Visual Exploration and Analytics https://bigvis.imsi.athenarc.gr/bigvis2020 March 30, 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark Held in conjunction with the 23rd Intl. Conference on Extending Database Technology & 23rd Intl. Conference on Database Theory (EDBT/ICDT 2020) Information Visualization is nowadays one of the cornerstones of Data Science, turning the abundance of Big Data being produced through modern systems into actionable knowledge. Indeed, the Big Data era has realized the availability of voluminous datasets that are dynamic, noisy and heterogeneous in nature. Transforming a data-curious user into someone who can access and analyze that data is even more burdensome now for a great number of users with little or no support and expertise on the data processing part. Thus, the area of data visualization, visual exploration and analysis has gained great attention recently, calling for joint action from different research areas from the HCI, Computer graphics and Data management and mining communities. In this respect, several traditional problems from these communities such as efficient data storage, querying & indexing for enabling visual analytics, new ways for visual presentation of massive data, efficient interaction and personalization techniques that can fit to different user needs are revisited. The modern exploration and visualization systems should nowadays offer scalable techniques to efficiently handle billion objects datasets, limiting the visual response in a few milliseconds along with mechanisms for information abstraction, sampling and summarization for addressing problems related to visual information over-plotting. Further, they must encourage user comprehension offering customization capabilities to different user-defined exploration scenarios and preferences according to the analysis needs. Overall, the challenge is to offer self-service visual analytics, i.e. enable data scientists and business analysts to visually gain value and insights out of the d! ata as repidly as possible, minimizing the role of IT-expert in the loop. The BigVis workshop aims at addressing the above challenges and issues by providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss, exchange, and disseminate their work. BigVis attempts to attract attention from the research areas of Data Management & Mining, Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction and highlight novel works that bridge together these communities. Workshop Topics ------------------------------------ In the context of visual exploration and analytics, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Visualization, exploration & analytics techniques for various data types; e.g., stream, spatial, high-dimensional, graph - Human-in-the-loop processing - Human-centered databases - Data modeling, storage, indexing, caching, prefetching & query processing for interactive applications - Interactive machine learning - Interactive data mining - User-oriented visualization; e.g., recommendation, assistance, personalization - Visualization & knowledge; e.g., storytelling - Progressive analytics - In-situ visual exploration & analytics - Novel interface & interaction paradigms - Visual representation techniques; e.g., aggregation, sampling, multi-level, filtering - Scalable visual operations; e.g., zooming, panning, linking, brushing - Scientific visualization; e.g., volume visualization - Analytics in the fields of scholarly data, digital libraries, multimedia, scientific data, social data, etc. - Immersive visualization - Interactive computer graphics - Setting-oriented visualization; e.g., display resolution/size, smart phones, visualization over networks - High performance, distributed & parallel techniques - Visualization hardware & acceleration techniques - Linked Data & ontologies visualization - Benchmarks for data visualization & analytics - Case & user studies - Systems & tools Submissions ------------------------------------ Regular/Short Research papers [up to 8/4 pages] Work-in-progress papers [up to 4 pages] Vision papers [up to 4 pages] System papers and Demos [up to 4 pages] Important Dates ------------------------------------ Submission: January 5, 2020 Notification: January 24, 2020 Camera-ready: January 29, 2020 Workshop: March 30, 2020 Organizing Committee ------------------------------------ David Auber, University Bordeaux, France Nikos Bikakis, University of Ioannina, Greece Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA George Papastefanatos, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Mohamed Sharaf, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Special Issue ------------------------------------ Extended versions of the best papers of BigVis 2020 will be invited for submission in the Special Issue "Interactive Big Data Visualization and Analytics" of the "Big Data Research Journal", Elsevier (IF: 2.95) Program Committee ------------------------------------ James Abello, Rutgers Univ, USA Demosthenes Akoumianakis, Hellenic Mediterranean Univ, Greece Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer, Germany Rick Cole, Tableau Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR & Univ of Calabria, Italy Danyel Fisher, Honeycomb.io Steffen Frey, Univ of Stuttgart, Germany Giorgos Giannopoulos, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Parke Godfrey, Univ of York, Canada Michael Gubanov, Univ of Texas at San Antonio, USA Silu Huang, Microsoft Christophe Hurter, Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile, France Vana Kalogeraki, Athens Univ of Economics & Business, Greece Eser Kandogan, IBM James Klosowski, AT&T Research Manolis Koubarakis, University of Athens, Greece Zhicheng Liu, Adobe Steffen Lohmann, Fraunhofer, Germany Ioana Manolescu, INRIA & Ecole Polytechnique, France Marios Meimaris, ATHENA Research Center, Greece Silvia Miksch, Vienna Univ of Technology, Austria Davide Mottin, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany Martin Nöllenburg, Vienna Univ of Technology, Austria Olga Papaemmanouil, Brandeis Univ, USA Paul Parsons, Purdue Univ, USA Laura Po, Unimore, Italy Giuseppe Polese, Univ of Salerno, Italy Alexander Rind, St. Pölten Univ of Applied Sciences, Austria Gerik Scheuermann, Univ of Leipzig, Germany Hans-Jörg Schulz, Aarhus Univ, Denmark Heidrun Schumann, Univ of Rostock, Germany Michael Sedlmair, Univ of Stuttgart, Germany Thibault Sellam, Columbia Univ, USA Bettina Speckmann, Eindhoven Univ of Technology, Netherlands Kostas Stefanidis, Univ of Tampere, Finland Cagatay Turkay, Univ of Warwick, UK Panos Vassiliadis, Univ of Ioannina, Greece Junpeng Wang, Visa Research Chaoli Wang, Univ of Notre Dame, USA Panpan Xu, Bosch Research Kai Xu, Middlesex Univ, UK Hongfeng Yu, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

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Call for interns | NASA Science and Robotics Visualization
by Scott Davidoff 24 Dec '19

24 Dec '19

Come visualize planetary science and robotics data with the NASA JPL / Caltech / Art Center visualization internship, a multi-disciplinary program for computer scientists, designers and artists. Students will develop creative interactive visualization tools for scientific research/engineering groups selected from a broad set of areas at JPL and Caltech. Working in multidisciplinary teams, students will use methods from User-Centered Design, computing, 3D graphics and interaction design to visualize real data sets that support active scientific research. They will receive mentorship in visualization, computing and design from program co-organizers Hillary Mushkin (Caltech), Scott Davidoff (JPL) and Maggie Hendrie (Art Center) as well as Santiago Lombeyda (Caltech). Students will work closely with scientific or engineering researchers to understand their research and data, identify their visualization needs and determine the relevance of design iterations to their research and data. This should be a good opportunity for students interested in data visualization techniques and real world problems who want to gain experience crossing disciplinary boundaries WHEN June 15 - August 20, 2019 (to be confirmed) WHERE Pasadena, California PAY $6.3K undergrad, $8.3K grad ELIGIBILITY Applicants must be continuing students. Students graduating before fall 2020 are not eligible to apply. STUDENTS MUST BE US CITIZENS OR PERMANENT RESIDENTS. GPA must be >= 3.0 APPLICATIONS | via email to datavis(a)caltech.edu <mailto:datavis@caltech.edu>; including CV (+Portfolio if relevant) and answers to the following: 1. Why do you want to work in visualization? 2. What visualization experience do you have? 3. What example of visualization do you particularly find inspiring and why? or what example of visualization do you find misleading or ineffective and how would you propose fixing it? DEADLINE | Accepting applications now, until the positions are filled. Questions? Email datavis(a)caltech.edu <mailto:datavis@caltech.edu> Scott Davidoff Senior Manager, Human Interfaces NASA Jet Propulsion Lab datavis.caltech.edu <http://datavis.caltech.edu/>

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BioVis - CfP for Symposium on Biological Data Visualization at ISMB, Montréal, Canada
by Fritz Lekschas 23 Dec '19

23 Dec '19

========================= Call for Participation for Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) ========================= BioVis will be held as a one-day Community of Special Interest (COSI) event at ISMB 2020 July 12-16, 2020 Montréal, Canada http://biovis.net/ <http://biovis.net/> https://twitter.com/biovis_net <https://twitter.com/biovis_net> ========================= We invite submissions of contributions to the BioVis Symposium in various formats on all aspects of data visualization in biology, from molecular to cell, tissue, organism and population biology. For detailed information including submission instructions please refer to the full CfP at http://biovis.net/2020/cfp_ismb <http://biovis.net/2020/cfp_ismb> 1. ISMB Proceedings ---------------------------- Novel, unpublished work can be submitted as a paper to the ISMB Proceedings. Accepted submissions will be published in the OUP Journal Bioinformatics (http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/ <http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/>, impact factor 7.3) and presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: January 30, 2020 2. Talks ---------------------------- Participants are encouraged to submit short abstracts highlighting previously published work, or long abstracts discussing unpublished work. Accepted talks will be presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: Early April, 2020 3. Posters and demos ---------------------------- We invite participants to submit work in progress and preliminary results, previously published work from other venues, and visualization challenges to be presented as a poster or interactive demo. A selection of these will be invited to give a short talk during the conference. Submission Deadline: Early April, 2020 Best regards, Organization committee of BioVis 2020

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Open Position: Independent Junior Research Group Leader in Computer Science for the Cluster of Excellence IntCDC (f/m/d)
by Daniel Weiskopf 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

The Cluster of Excellence EXC 2120 on "Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture" (IntCDC) at the University of Stuttgart invites applications for the position of a *** Independent Junior Research Group Leader in Computer Science for the Cluster of Excellence IntCDC (f/m/d) *** EXC 2120 was newly established in 2019, with an initial funding period of seven years. A Cluster of Excellence is the most significant and substantial grant funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). For the first time, a Cluster of Excellence has been awarded to the field of architecture, bringing together a world-leading interdisciplinary team of researchers from seven faculties of the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. To complement our research activities, we are seeking a highly motivated young scientist with an outstanding early-career track record and substantial international research experience in fields related to the aims of the cluster. A successful candidate should have a PhD degree in computer science or a similar area, and profound experience in one or more of the following or related topics: * Human-computer interaction or human-robot interaction, in particular, for digital fabrication * Augmented reality and mixed reality, especially, in the context of engineering domains * Visualization and visual analytics, machine learning for visual data science * Computer vision or robot perception * Computational approaches for architecture and the building industry A successful candidate will combine above computer science research with the application-oriented research on methods that support digitization in architecture and the building industry. This research-focused position will lead a new Independent Junior Research Group within Research Unit IV (Computer Science and Robotics) of the Cluster of Excellence IntCDC. The establishment of a competitive research program is expected. The Research Group is expected to collaborate actively with the IntCDC partners at the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. The Research Group is funded for up to three years, including the Group Leader position (TV-L E14), funds for PhD projects, as well as startup and annual budgets. The Research Group will be embedded into the Visualization Research Center (VISUS) at the University of Stuttgart and benefit from the support structures of VISUS and IntCDC, including access to several specific labs. * More information on the Cluster of Excellence IntCDC: https://www.intcdc.uni-stuttgart.de/ * More information on VISUS: https://www.visus.uni-stuttgart.de/ Please send your application (cover and motivation letter, academic CV, list of publications, description of past and future research activities (approximately three pages), degree certificates and transcripts of records from Bachelor/Master/PhD degrees) in a single PDF file (up to 10 MB) to jobs(a)visus.uni-stuttgart.de. Three reference letters should be submitted by the referees directly to jobs(a)visus.uni-stuttgart.de. The closing date for applications is February 7, 2020. Inquiries should be sent to daniel.weiskopf(a)visus.uni-stuttgart.de. The University of Stuttgart is an equal opportunity employer. Applications by women are strongly encouraged. Severely challenged persons will be given preference in case of equal qualifications. The University of Stuttgart has established a Dual Career Program to offer assistance to partners of those moving to Stuttgart. For more information, please visit the website https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/universitaet/arbeitgeber/dualcareer/. Information on how the University protects personal data in accordance with Article 13 of the GDPR can be found via the following link: https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/privacy-notice/job-application/.

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