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Call for Papers: Graph Drawing and Network Visualization GD 2018
by Andreas Kerren 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

Sorry if you have received multiple copies of this email =========================================================================== Call for Papers GD 2018 26th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization September 26-28, 2018 - Barcelona, Spain http://dccg.upc.edu/gd2018/ =========================================================================== PDF version: http://bit.ly/gd18-cfp =========================================================================== Graph Drawing is concerned with the geometric representation of graphs and constitutes the algorithmic core of Network Visualization. Graph Drawing and Network Visualization are motivated by applications where it is crucial to visually analyze and interact with relational datasets. Examples of such application areas include data science, social sciences, web computing, information systems, biology, geography, business intelligence, information security, or software engineering. GD has been the main annual event in this area for more than 20 years. Its focus is on combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of graph drawing as well as the design of network visualization systems and interfaces. GD 2018 will take place September 26-28, 2018 at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. Researchers and practitioners working on any aspects of graph drawing and network visualization are invited to contribute papers and posters and to participate in the symposium and the graph drawing contest. PAPERS ------------ We invite authors to submit papers describing original research of theoretical or practical significance to graph drawing and network visualization. Regular papers must be submitted explicitly to one of two distinct tracks. Papers submitted to one track will not compete with papers submitted to the other track. All papers in all tracks will undergo single-blind reviewing. Track 1: Combinatorial and algorithmic aspects --------------------------------------------------------------- This track is mainly devoted to fundamental graph drawing advances, such as combinatorial aspects and algorithm design. The range of topics for this track includes (but is not limited to): * Design and analysis of graph drawing algorithms * Geometric graph theory * Geometric computing * Planarity and topological graph theory * Optimization on graphs Track 2: Experimental, applied, and network visualization aspects --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This track is mainly devoted to the practical aspects of graph drawing, such as the development of network visualization systems and interfaces in different application areas. The range of topics for this track includes (but is not limited to): * Visualization of graphs and networks in real world applications, including big data * Engineering of network visualization algorithms and systems * Experimental results in graph theory and algorithms * Benchmarks and experimental studies of network visualization systems and user interfaces * Cognitive studies on graph drawing readability and user interaction * Interfaces and methods for interacting with graphs Authors of applied papers will have the opportunity to show a demo of their software/system during the poster session. Short papers ----------------- In addition to the above two tracks, there will be a separate category for short papers, describing theoretical or applied contributions of shorter length. Papers in this category will be assigned a shorter time for presentation during the conference. Submission format ------------------------- All submissions must be formatted using the LaTeX style file for the conference series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) provided by Springer. The default margins and fonts must not be modified; in particular, the use of packages such as times.sty or mathptmx.sty is not allowed. Submissions that do not comply with this format risk rejection without consideration of their merits. The length of regular papers is limited to 12 pages (excluding references), while the length of short papers is limited to 6 pages (excluding references). The claims of the paper should be fully substantiated. If this information does not fit within the page limits, the authors should include it in a clearly marked appendix, whose length is not constrained and which the reviewers may read at their own discretion. Authors must submit the complete paper (including the appendix) by the deadline. Minor updates will be allowed for 2 days following the deadline. All submissions will be handled through EasyChair at the web site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gd18 POSTERS -------------- Submissions of posters on graph drawing, network visualization, and related areas are solicited. The poster session will provide a forum for the communication of late-breaking research results (which may also appear elsewhere) to the GD community. Authors of posters should prepare an abstract (up to 2 pages in the LNCS style) that must be submitted together with the poster itself. CONTEST -------------- Details about the traditional Graph Drawing Contest held at the conference are provided on the conference web site at http://graphdrawing.de/contest2018/contest.html PUBLICATION -------------------- All accepted papers (including the two-page poster abstracts) will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Twelve pages (excluding references) will be allocated for regular papers and six pages (excluding references) for short papers. The copyright to these proceedings will be held by Springer. The LNCS proceedings will be made freely accessible to the GD community upon publication and openly accessible to anyone after four years. Authors will be required to submit their accepted papers to the arXiv repository, in order to provide immediate and unrestricted open access to them. The self-archived arXiv papers shall consist of the LNCS proceedings version (identical, except for possibly changed references to the appendix resp. the arXiv version) plus an optional clearly marked appendix. This appendix could contain a long version of the entire paper or proofs that have been omitted from the main text. Subsequent submissions of different versions of the paper to the arXiv (known as arXiv ``replacements'') are allowed. Upon submission of the camera-ready version of an accepted paper, the authors will be required to specify the arXiv identifier associated with the paper for inclusion in a conference index, which will be also published in the arXiv repository. Failure to comply with these guidelines will impede the publication of the paper. Each paper or poster must be presented at the conference by an author (barring unforeseen circumstances), otherwise the paper/poster will not be included in the proceedings. Should any visa restriction prevent an author from attending the conference and presenting a paper, he/she will be given ways to participate and give the talk via electronic means. Selected papers from both tracks will be invited for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA). The authors of the best paper in Track 2 will be invited to submit a substantially extended and enhanced version of their work to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). AWARDS ------------- For each of the two tracks, the Program Committee of GD 2018 will give a Best Paper Award. In addition, to recognize the effort of participants to present their work and to prepare their posters in a clear and elegant way, there will be a Best Presentation Award and a Best Poster Award voted on by the GD 2018 attendees. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- * Paper submission deadline: June 10 (23:59 PDT) Minor updates possible until June 12 (23:59 PDT) * Notification of paper acceptance: July 20 * Poster submission deadline: August 12 (23:59 PDT) * Notification of poster acceptance: August 24 * Final versions due: September 3 * Contest submission deadline: September 15 (23:59 PDT) * Symposium: September 26-28 INVITED SPEAKERS ----------------------------- Bojan Mohar, Simon Fraser University Alexandru Telea, University of Groningen PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------------------------- Patrizio Angelini, University of Tübingen Daniel Archambault, Swansea University David Auber, University of Bordeaux Therese Biedl, University of Waterloo (co-chair) Carla Binucci, University of Perugia Erin Chambers, Saint Louis University Steven Chaplick, University of Würzburg Giuseppe Di Battista, Roma Tre University Tim Dwyer, Monash University Radoslav Fulek, IST Austria Christophe Hurter, Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University (co-chair) Karsten Klein, University of Konstanz Guy Melançon, University of Bordeaux Debajyoti Mondal, University of Saskatchewan Petra Mutzel, TU Dortmund University Yoshio Okamoto, The University of Electro-Communications Sergey Pupyrev, Facebook Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow Marcus Schaefer, DePaul University Gerik Scheuermann, University of Leipzig Darren Strash, Colgate University Shigeo Takahashi, University of Aizu Tatiana Von Landesberger, TU Darmstadt Sue Whitesides, University of Victoria David R. Wood, Monash University Hsu-Chun Yen, National Taiwan University ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------------------------- Vera Sacristan, UPC Barcelona (co-chair) Rodrigro I. Silveira, UPC Barcelona (co-chair) CONTEST COMMITTEE --------------------------------- Will Devanny, UC Irvine Philipp Kindermann, FernUniversität in Hagen Maarten Löffler, Utrecht University (chair) Ignaz Rutter, TU Eindhoven

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BioVis - CfP on Biological Data Visualization at ISMB, Chicago, USA - Deadline Soon!
by Fritz Lekschas 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

Call for Participation for Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) at ISMB, Chicago, USA. Full paper deadline is coming up soon. ========================= BioVis will be held as a one-day Community of Special Interest (COSI) event at ISMB 2018 July 6-10, 2018 Chicago, USA http://biovis.net/ https://twitter.com/biovis_net Full paper deadline: January 29, 2018 ========================= 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/2018/cfp_ismb/ and please take a look at the submission guidelines http://biovis.net/2018/submission_ismb/. IMPORTANT: During submission please select the general subject of your submissions, and then make sure to specify BioVis as the “TOPIC” of your submission to ensure your manuscript is assigned to our COSI. We are looking forward to your submissions and expect an exciting conference in Chicago! Best regards, Organization committee of BioVis 2018

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Final Call for Submissions: SetVR 2018 Workshop @ Diagrams 2018
by Yuri Sato 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

**************************************************************************** Final Call for Submissions: SetVR 2018 Workshop @ Diagrams 2018 SetVR 2018 International Workshop on Set Visualization and Reasoning 2018 https://sites.google.com/site/setvr2kn/current-workshop Conference dates: 18th--22nd June 2018 Location: Edinburgh, UK Deadline for submission: 5th February, 2018 **************************************************************************** SetVR 2018 will be the 6th meeting, with the first one held in 2004, previously called the Euler Diagrams Workshop. It aims to promote theoretical, empirical, applied research on visualization and diagrammatic reasoning, especially, about sets (set-theoretical and grouped data). SetVR 2018 welcomes submissions of types: full papers (16 pages) and short papers (8 pages; at least 5 pages). Accepted papers are expected to be published on-line by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) SetVR 2018 will run as part of Diagrams 2018 conference, which will be held from June 18th to 22nd in 2018, and is expected to occupy one day during this period. http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2018/ Organizers Yuri Sato (University of Brighton, UK) Zohreh Shams (University of Cambridge, UK) Program Committee Bilal Alsallakh (Bosch Research and Technology Center, USA) Jim Burton (University of Brighton, UK) Peter Chapman (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) Renata De Freitas (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil) Mateja Jamnik (University of Cambridge, UK) Sven Linker (University of Liverpool, UK) Luana Micallef (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Finland) Peter Rodgers (University of Kent, UK) Gem Stapleton (University of Brighton, UK) ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/computing/Pages/Email/spam.aspx

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CDVE2018 Call for Abstract - deadline approaching - Feb. 1, 2018
by cdve .org 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

*CDVE2018 Call for Abstracts - The 15th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering* The 15th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering - CDVE2018 will be held from October 21 - 24, 2018 in Hangzhou, China. You are welcome to submit papers to the conference. The conference proceedings of CDVE2018 will be published by the prestigious Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer and indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library. Selected papers will be invited to fully expand to be included in special issues of a couple SCI indexed journals. The topics of the paper should be within the scope of the conference. See the conference web page http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html <https://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecdve%2Eorg%2…> for detailed information. At least one keyword of your paper should be in the call of papers. All the papers should follow the LNCS format restrictively. The submission page is: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdve2018 <https://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eeasychair%2E…> The following form of paper should be submitted: Abstract(recommended): 1 page, with planned paper type: short paper or full paper; paper title; author information; keyword; and abstract text. *Abstract submission deadline: Feb. 1, 2018.* Full Papers - 8 pages, Full Paper submission deadline: April 20, 2018. Short papers - 4 pages, Short Paper submission deadline: May 10, 2018. Notification of acceptance of short and full paper June 10, 2018. Final camera ready paper due and registration for accepted paper authors: July 10, 2018 October 21 - 24, 2018: CDVE2018 conference in Hangzhou, China *Venue* Hangzhou is the most famous city in its natural scenery in China and the booming base of the China internet e-commerce miracle. We will visit the head quarter of the company Alibaba during the conference. You will enjoy it for sure! *Contact* All questions about submissions should be emailed to cdve2018(a)easychair.org -- The 15th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Oct. October 21 - 24,2018, Hangzhou, China Email: cdve2018(a)easychair.org Web: http://www.cdve.org

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IEEE VIS: Visualization Pioneers Group Reception
by Alan Keahey 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

The VPG Organizing Committee would like to invite you to attend the IEEE VGTC Visualization Pioneers Reception on the first Monday at VIS. The reception is open for all VPG members who have paid their dues for 2017-2018. To be eligible for VPG Membership, one needs to have made at least 20 years of contributions to the field. Your $50 Annual dues entitles you to a free reception dinner at VIS, as well as supporting other worthwhile VPG activities such as the Best Dissertation and Best Data Visualization Contest. We need to get a more accurate headcount for the reception soon, so please visit the website below to join VPG and pay your membership dues as soon as possible. https://www.payit2.com/collect-page/88271 <https://www.payit2.com/collect-page/88271> Reception Details (to be confirmed): Monday October 2, 6:00PM 1130 The Restaurant 455 North 3rd St. Suite 1130 Phoenix, AZ More information on the Vis Pioneers Group is here: http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/ <http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/> My apologies for the late notification of the event. Please confirm your membership as soon as possible. We look forward to seeing you at the reception! Best Regards, -Alan Keahey (VPG Chair) Bernice Rogowitz, Raghu Machiraju, Klaus Mueller (VPG OC)

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Reminder: Call for Macroscope Tools for the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science Exhibit (2018) - Deadline is 1/31/2018
by Katy Borner 17 Jan '18

17 Jan '18

Happy New Year 2018! Please do consider submitting your best interactive data visualizations to Macroscope Tools for the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science Exhibit (2018). Thanks & best regards, k On 12/1/2017 9:50 PM, Borner, Katy wrote: > > Dear all, > > we are seeking engaging, relevant, interactive data visualizations of > science and technology developments that help people make smarter > decisions in their personal and professional lives. The /Call for > Submissions/ has been posted at > scimaps.org/call<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscimaps.org%2Fcall&h=DAQGTzRBrAQ…> and > we welcome your help in spreading the word. This year’s submissions > are due by January 31, 2017. > > More information on maps and macroscopes included in the exhibit can > be found at http://scimaps.org/iteration; interviews with select map > and macroscope makers can be found at > http://scimaps.org/mapmakers.html. The exhibit currently features 100 > framed maps, 12 macroscopes, an award-winning short film, touch screen > interactives, and sculptural elements created by more than 230 leading > experts in the natural, physical, and social sciences, visual arts, > and the humanities. It has been displayed in various formats in 28 > countries on six continents and exhibit materials are available in > five languages. > > Thank you and kind regards, > > Dr. Katy Bӧrner & Lisel Record > > CNS, SICE > > Indiana University > > 1320 E. 10^th St. > > Bloomington, IN 47405 > > 812-856-7034 > > scimaps.org<http://www.scimaps.org/> > > *About the /Places & Spaces/ exhibition:*Drawing from across cultures > and across scholarly disciplines, /Places & Spaces: Mapping Science/ > demonstrates the power of maps to address vital questions about the > contours and content of human knowledge. An interdisciplinary and > international advisory board chose each one of the works in the > /Places & Spaces: Mapping Science/ exhibit as an outstanding example > of how visualization can bring patterns in scientific data into focus. > The exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science > Center at Indiana University. The exhibit has been on display at over > 350 venues in 28 countries on 6 continents. It showcases the work of > 239 mapmakers that hail from 17 different countries. For further > information, please visit our website at scimaps.org<http://scimaps.org>. > > ** > > *About the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (CNS):*CNS > is a research center at Indiana University’s School of Informatics, > Computing, and Engineering in Bloomington, Indiana > (http://cns.iu.edu/) For more than 20 years, CNS has played a leading > role in the field of data visualization, developing open source tools > for the creation of data visualizations, offering the IVMOOC, > co-organizing international workshops and conferences, and promoting > network science and visualization through international initiatives. > CNS’s research, teaching, and software development efforts benefit > from long-term collaborations with colleagues in academia, government, > and industry. > > -- > > Katy Borner > > Victor H. Yngve Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Information > Science > > Director, CI for Network Science Center, http://cns.iu.edu > > Curator, Mapping Science exhibit, http://scimaps.org > > ISE and ILS, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University > > Wells Library 021, 1320 E. Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA > > Phone: (812) 855-3256 Fax: -6166 > > *From:* Borner, Katy > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 21, 2017 10:58 PM > *To:* SOCNET(a)LISTS.UFL.EDU; SCISIP(a)LISTSERV.NSF.GOV; ASIS&T Special > Interest Group on Metrics <SIGMETRICS(a)listserv.utk.edu>; > sigmetrics(a)mail.asis.org; 'infovis(a)infovis.org' <infovis(a)infovis.org>; > 'POLNET-L(a)LISTSERV.SIU.EDU' <POLNET-L(a)LISTSERV.SIU.EDU>; > ieee_vis_open_positions(a)listserv.uni-tuebingen.de > *Subject:* New deadline: January 1st. NSF-NRT PhD Fellowship in > Complex Networks and Systems at IU > > Dear all, > > Please share the below Fellowship opportunity with interested students. > > Happy Thanksgiving everyone, > > k > > *From:* Rocha, Luis M. > *Sent:* Monday, November 20, 2017 11:34 AM > *Subject:* [CNS-NRT-Faculty] New deadline: January 1st. NSF-NRT PhD > Fellowship in Complex Networks and Systems > > *NEW DEADLINE: Applications Due January 1, 2018* > > Interdisciplinary Training in Complex Networks and Systems > > Understanding complex networked systems is key to solving some of the > most vexing problems confronting humankind, from discovering how > dynamic brain connections give rise to thoughts and behaviors, to > detecting and preventing the spread of misinformation or unhealthy > behaviors across a population. Graduate training, however, typically > occurs in one of two dimensions: experimental and observational > methods in a specific area such as biology and sociology, or in > general methodologies such as machine learning and data science. > > With more and more students seeking to gain sufficient expertise in > mathematical and computational methods on top of domain-specific > laboratory and social analysis methodologies, a greater demand for > more efficient interdisciplinary training is emerging. The Indiana > University National Science Foundation Research Traineeship > <https://cns-nrt.indiana.edu/> (NRT) addresses this growing need with > an integrated dual PhD program that trains students to be > “bidisciplinary” in Complex Networks and Systems (CNS) and another > discipline of their choosing from the natural and social sciences. It > will seamlessly integrate traditional education with interdisciplinary > hands-on research in a culture of academic and human diversity. > > The training program capitalizes on the new Indiana University Network > Science Institute (IUNI) <https://iuni.iu.edu/>. The Institute's 165+ > faculty members will serve in interdisciplinary PhD program committees > to be co-chaired by research mentors from both CNS and the target > empirical domain. Project-driven, team-based research at IUNI will > seamlessly integrate academic education with interdisciplinary > hands-on scientific and industrial research. Trainees will learn to > connect the general-purpose, computational expertise of CNS to the > deep, domain-specific research methodologies of the natural, > behavioral, and social sciences thus bridging the gap between distinct > training cultures. They will be a new breed of STEM scientists that > escapes the silos of disciplinary training to address the complex > problems of the 21st century. > > *NEW DEADLINE: Applications Due January 1, 2018* > > ** > > For more information on how to apply please contact: > infograd(a)indiana.edu <mailto:infograd@indiana.edu>. For information > about research and academic components, please see our website > *https://cns-nrt.indiana.edu <https://cns-nrt.indiana.edu/>*, contact > the program director Prof. Luis M Rocha > <mailto:rocha@indiana.edu?subject=NSF-CNS-NRT%20Inquiry>, or other > members of the executive committee:** > > CNS-NRT Animated LogoExecutive Committee > > ·Luis M. Rocha <https://www.informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/>, Director > > ·Katy Börner <http://info.ils.indiana.edu/%7Ekaty/>, Evaluation > Committee Chair > > ·Bernice Pescosolido > <https://iuni.iu.edu/people/person/bernice-pescosolido>, Colloquia and > Outreach Committee Chair > > ·Armando Razo > <http://polisci.indiana.edu/faculty/profiles/arazo.shtml>, Education > and Training Committee Chair > > ·Olaf Sporns <http://psych.indiana.edu/faculty/osporns.php>, > Recruiting and Admissions Committee Chair > > ·Tara Holbrook > <https://www.soic.indiana.edu/all-people/profile.html?profile_id=230>, > Project Coordinator > > Research Themes > > Complex networks and systems > > Network neuroscience > > Social network science > > Health & health care > > Science of science > > Finance and economy networks > > Biological and chemical networks > > Many others > > Program Benefits > > $34,000 stipend on prestigious NSF Fellowship > > Tuition and health insurance > > Develop dual proficiency > > Interdisciplinary training > > Early integration in research via Indiana University Network Science > Institute (IUNI) > > National and international internships > > Academic and industrial professional development including travel support > > Diverse, collaborative cohorts > > Interaction with world-renowned external board members and speakers > > NSF fellow must be US citizens residents. IU fellowships and NRT > affiliates available for international students. > > ** > > *Academics* > > Dual PhD program in CNS and another domain such as Biology, Chemistry, > Cognitive Science, Economics, Psychological and Brain Sciences, > Sociology, Political Science, Physics, etc. Hands-on training in > general-purpose methodologies of CNS, computational and data science, > as well domain-specific methodologies of a chosen natural, behavioral, > or social science. > > ______________________________________________________ > > Luis Mateus Rocha, Professor of Informatics and Cognitive Science > > Director, NSF-NRT Interdisciplinary Training in Complex Networks and > Systems > > Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research > > School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering > > Indiana University, 919 E. 10th St > > Bloomington IN, 47408, USA > > http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha > > and > > Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal > > http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt/research/unit/76 > > ______________________________________________________ > > Any analytical approach to understanding simplicity always turns out > to be very complex. (Howard Pattee) > > ______________________________________________________ > -- Katy Borner Victor H. Yngve Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Information Science Director, CI for Network Science Center, http://cns.iu.edu Curator, Mapping Science exhibit, http://scimaps.org ISE and ILS, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Wells Library 021, 1320 E. Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA Phone: (812) 855-3256 Fax: -6166

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Final Call for Submissions: Graduate Symposium at Diagrams 2018
by Atsushi Shimojima 17 Jan '18

17 Jan '18

**************************************************************************** Final Call for Submissions: Graduate Symposium Diagrams 2018 10th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2018/ Conference dates: 18th - 22nd June 2018 Location: Edinburgh, UK Co-located event: International Conference on Conceptual Structures 2018 http://blogs.napier.ac.uk/iccs/ **************************************************************************** Diagrams 2018 is the tenth conference in the biennial series that started in 2000, which provides a united forum for all areas concerned with the study of diagrams. The goal of the Diagrams 2018 Graduate Symposium is twofold. Firstly, the Symposium will provide senior graduate students and recent Masters and Doctoral graduates with the opportunity to present their research. Established researchers will provide feedback and comments on each of the presentations. Secondly, the Symposium will provide students with an opportunity to network with each other as future colleagues. In previous Diagrams Graduate Symposiums, lively and useful discussions have enabled students to receive suggestions about their on-going research and allowed more experienced participants to hear some fresh ideas and view some of the new trends in the field. Participants will be selected for the Graduate Symposium based on the submission of a 3-page report describing their research (see the Submission section). Submissions will be peer reviewed. Summaries of accepted submissions will be available online on the conference website (as an example, see Diagrams 2016 Graduate Symposium proceedings: http://www. diagrams-conference.org/2016/gradsymp.html) **************************************************************************** Submission Submissions that focus on any aspect of diagrams research are welcome. Topics of interest are the same as those given in the calls for papers for the three conference tracks: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2018/home/cfp/. Students who wish to present their work at the symposium must submit a 3-page report describing - the thesis topic, - the approach being taken, - the work that has been completed, - the expected contributions of the research, and - aspects of the work on which advice is desired. The report must be submitted in Springer LNCS format via the EasyChair system by 31st January 2018 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=diagrams2018 The submission should be prepared following the LNCS style guidelines, http://www.springer.com/lncs, and each student can only submit one report. **************************************************************************** Participation Expectations Graduate students whose Graduate Symposium submission is accepted are expected to participate in the Graduate Symposium as follows. Students who are not giving a presentation of a long or short paper, or an abstract, in the main conference will be expected to give a presentation at the Symposium and present a poster in the main conference. Students who are presenting a long or short paper, or an abstract, in the main conference, including either of the special tracks, will be expected to attend the Symposium and present a poster in the main conference. Students who are presenting a poster at the main conference, including either of the special tracks, will be expected to give a presentation at the Symposium. They do not need to prepare an additional poster for the main conference. All students who receive student funding from Diagrams 2018 will be required to attend the Graduate Symposium. **************************************************************************** Supervisor Support Students who submit to the graduate symposium must ask their main or lead supervisor to submit a short supporting statement, by email to Andrew Blake, a.l.blake(a)brighton.ac.uk. The supporting statement should confirm that the supervisor supports the student’s participation in the symposium and briefly explain why the student will benefit. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that their supervisor submits the supporting statement. **************************************************************************** Financial Support The organisers may be able to provide financial support for students attending the conference. If support is available then those eligible to apply for are expected to include: - students whose Graduate Symposium submission is accepted, - students presenting a paper, abstract or poster at the main conference who submit a Graduate Symposium report by the symposium submission deadline. Support is expected to range from free registration to additional travel support. All students who obtain funding from the Diagrams conference must participate in the Graduate Symposium as explained in the Participation Expectations. **************************************************************************** Important Dates For all submissions to the Graduate Symposium the following dates apply Submission deadline: 31st January 2018 Supervisor supporting statement: 7th February 2018 Notification of acceptance: 28th February 2018 Camera ready deadline: 21st March 2018

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Internship positions at Nokia Bell Labs Cambridge
by Daniele Quercia 10 Jan '18

10 Jan '18

Dear all, The Social Dynamics team at Bell Labs Cambridge (UK) is looking for summer interns to work on the following internship projects (also available on http://researchswinger.org/hiring.html) 1. You are what You Eat - Study food consumption data and their relationship with people well-being. Enrolled in PhD in Computational Social Science or related fields. Experience with Python, machine learning, network analysis. 2. The Social Life of Cities - Investigate how the urban space shapes our social relationships. Enrolled in PhD in Computational Social Science or related fields. Experience with Python, GIS tools, network analysis. 3. The Health of the City - Analyse fine-grained health data at city scale over time. Enrolled in PhD in Computational Social Science. Experience with Python, machine learning, time-series analysis, large-scale data analysis. 4. Your New Quantified Self - Study multiple signals from quantified-self devices. Enrolled in PhD in Computational Social Science or related fields. Experience with Python and machine learning 5. "This is not gonna help you" - Build web apps to collect psychological perceptions of people. BSc or above in Computer Science. Experience with frontend (HTML5, Javascript, D3) and backend (Django, SQL) development, design of simple Facebook apps. Interest in Computational Social Science. 6. Visual AI - Creating new beautiful and elegant techniques to display and visualize the results of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models. Experience with web design and frontend development (HTML5, Javascript, D3) To learn more about our research, please check our sites - researchswinger.org, lajello.com, and goodcitylife.org If you would like to apply, please send me your CV by *January 20th*. I would be happy to answer any question. Please feel free to forward this call to anybody who might be interested. cheers, - daniele

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26.WSCG conference - Call for Papers - EXTENDED - (includes GraVisMa & HCI-Europe confs.)
by Vaclav Skala 03 Jan '18

03 Jan '18

>> Call for Papers and Conferences Announcement >> WSCG 2018, GraVisMa 2018, HCI-Europe 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------- WSCG 2018 (held annually since 1992) 26. Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2018 http://www.wscg.eu – main page of WSCG http://www.wscg.cz – WSCG 2018 page When: May 28 – June 1, 2018 Where: Primavera Congress Center, Pilsen (the City of Beer), close to Prague Czech Republic approx. 70 mins. from the Prague Airport by public transport Includes special workshop (common for WSCG and GraVisMa) on: Radial Basis Function: Theory and Application in Physical Sciences and Mathematics Computational (including scientific computing, ODE, PDE, interpolation, approximation, graphics, vision, visualization etc.) > Proposals for workshops and special session are welcome. Important dates: --------------------- WSCG 2018 26. Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2018 http://www.WSCG.eu Submission: February 27, 2018 (EXTENDED) GraVisMa 2018 5. Conference on Computer Graphics, Computer Vision and Mathematics Computational and Applied http://www.GraVisMa.eu Submission: March 20, 2018 (Extended) HCI-Europe 2018 3. Conference on Human Computer Interaction 2018 https://www.hci-europe.eu Submission: March 20, 2018 (Extended) Proceedings will be published in Computer Science Research Notes (ISSN 2464-4617). The best selected papers will be published in the Journal of WSCG (ISSN 1213-6972). Recent publications available via http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm - repository since 1992. Organizer & Chair --------------------- prof. Vaclav Skala c/o University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univerzitni 8 CZ 30614 Plzen, Czech Republic http://www.VaclavSkala.eu Announcement sent via: infovis(a)infovis.org --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Faculty Positions at NYU in Data Science (VIS included) (Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Level)
by Enrico Bertini 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Hi all, NYU is hiring in Data Science at all professorship levels (assistant, associate and full). Candidates working in visualization (especially those with a strong background in data science) are very welcome. One call is for a positions across the Center of Data Science ( https://cds.nyu.edu) and Tandon School of Engineering ( http://engineering.nyu.edu) and one for Tandon only. New faculty can join the "Visualization Imaging and Data Analysis (VIDA)" lab, which already hosts three vis-oriented faculty members (Claudio Silva, Juliana Freire and Enrico Bertini). New York and NYU have a very vibrant data science and visualization community with endless opportunities for impactful research and collaboration across NYU schools (medicine, biology, media/journalism, art, urban science, finance, neuroscience, education, etc.), public organizations and businesses. To apply you can follow these links: - Associate/Full Professor, Data Science: https://apply. interfolio.com/47433 - Data Science Assistant/Associate Faculty (CSE/CDS): https://apply. interfolio.com/47451 For more information feel free to contact me (enrico.bertini(a)nyu.edu) and/or Claudio Silva (csilva(a)nyu.edu) We'd be happy to provide more information to interested candidates from the visualization community. All the best! -- Enrico Bertini, Assistant Professor Dep. of Computer Science and Engineering NYU Tandon School of Engineering 2 Metrotech Center, 11201 Brooklyn, NY (10th floor) Phone: +1 646 997 3731 <(646)%20997-3731>

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