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CfP: Workshop on Immersive Analytics: Exploring Future Interaction and Visualization Technologies for Data Analytics
by Benjamin 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

Hi Everyone, We invite contributions for the 2016 Workshop on Immersive Analytics: Web: http://immersiveanalytics.net Twitter: #immersive2016 Immersive Analytics are a new multidisciplinary initiative to explore future interaction technologies for data analytics. Immersive Analytics aims to bring together researchers in Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Virtual and Augmented Reality and Natural User Interfaces. The workshop is held as part of ACM ISS Interactive Spaces and Systems on November 6th, 2016 in Niagara Falls, Canada. http://iss2016.acm.org >> Why? Due to the recent advances in immersive technologies (VR, AR, large displays, tangible surfaces, etc.), we see new opportunities to using these technologies to analyze and explore data. Visual analytics is concerned with analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. This definition is agnostic of the actual interface devices employed by visual analysis systems. Nevertheless, the affordances of the display and input devices used for analyzing data strongly affect the experience of the users of such systems, and so, their degree of engagement and productivity. However, a systematic approach to developing visual analytic tools that move beyond the desktop is yet lacking. >> What? In this call, we are looking for innovative research, design, and view-points, mature or work-in-progress, that fall into or are related to the following topics: * Real-world VA/AR, * Collaboration, * Hybrid 2D/3D, * Affordances for Immersion, * Changing Technologies, * Application Areas, * Platforms and Toolkits. We call this new research thrust ''Immersive Analytics'', a topic that will explore the applicability and development of emerging user-interface technologies for creating more engaging experiences and seamless work-flows for data analysis applications. The type of contributions can include, but is not limited to the following: * Techniques: Interactions, visualizations, displays, devices, setups, ... * Applications and use cases: When, how, and why using immersive technologies. * Evaluations: Quantitative or qualitative evaluations on immersive techniques and setups. * Position papers</b>: Ideas, thoughts, viewpoints, critiques, on how to shape the field, how to do research, what are the methodologies, etc. Submissions can be of any length from 2 to 7 pages, in proportion to the contribution. >> How?: Paper Submission deadline: September 30th, 23:59 PDT Paper format: ACM CHI Extended Abstract Submission length: up to 7 pages Submission website: EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ia20160 Review Process: 3 peer reviews each. Single-blind mandatory, double-blind optional. Publication Format: Archival in ACM Digital Library Presentation: ~8 minutes at Workshop (including questions). Registration: Participants receive reduced registration to ISS. >> Who? Benjamin Bach (benj.bach(a)gmail.com) Monash University Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary Christopher Collins, University of Ontario Raimund Dachselt, Technische Universitaet Dresden Tim Dwyer, Monash University Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research Program Committee: announced shortly: check #immersive2016 Thanks for reading, Best Regards, Immersive2016 Organizing Team

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IEEE VIS Call for Participation: Registration, VAST Challenge, SciVis Contest , and more
by Jian Chen 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

=================== IEEE VIS 2016 http://ieeevis.org/ October 23 - 28, 2016 Baltimore, Maryland, USA Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ieeevis Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis LinkedIn: https://goo.gl/5qABWF There are eight items in the message: 1. IEEE VIS Registration is open (Early registration deadline: September 9, 2016) 2. IEEE VIS VAST Challenge CFP (Deadline: July 9, 2016) 3. IEEE VIS SciVis Contest CFP (Deadline: July 31, 2016) 4. IEEE VIS Student volunteer CFP (Deadline: August 1, 2016) 5. IEEE VisSec (Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security) (Deadline: August 1, 2016) 6. IEEE VDS (Visualization in Data Science) (Deadline: August 5, 2016) 7. IEEE BioVis posters (Deadline: August 26, 2016) 8. Other events (Accepted workshops and tutorials) ============ 1. IEEE VIS Registration ============ After ten years, we are excited to be returning to Baltimore, Maryland. Located on the mid-Atlantic coast, the city is easy to reach and has wonderful attractions as part of the Inner Harbor district near the conference hotel. We invite you to participate in IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis), IEEE Scientific Visualization (SciVis), and art program, along with the growing array of symposia that share our week. Bring your imagination, your data, your problems, your solutions, your research, insights, experience, and enthusiasm. Early registration deadline: September 9, 2016 ============ 2. VAST Challenge ============ http://vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2016 This year’s VAST Challenge returns to the island of Kronos for three mini-challenges to test the skills of designers and visual analytics groups alike. These challenges are open to participation by individuals and teams in industry, government, and academia. We encourage your submissions and look forward to seeing your innovative approaches to solving these challenges using visual analytics. Important Dates: Submission: July 12, 2016 Notification: August 17, 2016 Contact: vast-challenge(a)ieeevis.org ============ 3. SciVis Contest ============ http://www.uni-kl.de/sciviscontest/ Ensemble simulation can be used to examine aleatoric uncertainty in simulation models that contain stochastic effects. For this purpose, a simulation experiment is performed many times to generate an ensemble of realizations of model. The object of the 2016 Scientific Visualization Contests is the visualization of an ensemble of three-dimensional, transient fluid flows obtained through particle simulation with stochastic effects at multiple levels of resolution. Important Dates: Submission: July 31, 2016 Notification: August 31, 2016 Contact: Berk Geveci (berk.geveci(a)kitware.com) and Christoph Garth (garth(a)cs.uni-kl.de) ============ 4. Student volunteer ============ http://vissv.org/ The Student Volunteer Program is looking for reliable, hard working and enthusiastic student volunteers to help us create a great experience and a premier conference. Each year student volunteers provide essential support to the IEEE VIS Conference. Their enthusiastic participation enhances the conference experience for all the attendees. Student Volunteers benefit by observing first-hand the latest advances in visualization, hearing and meeting world-class as well as next-generation visualization professionals from around the world, and building a network of research colleagues. Important Dates: Application deadline: July 1 - August 1, 2016 ============ 5. VisSec (Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security) ============ http://vizsec.org/ The 13th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cybersecurity community through new and insightful visualization and analysis techniques. VizSec provides an excellent venue for fostering greater exchange and new collaborations on a broad range of security- and privacy-related topics. The purpose of VizSec is to explore effective and scalable visual interfaces for security domains such as network security, computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, privacy, user assisted attacks prevention, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, and penetration testing. Important Dates: Submission: August 1, 2016 Notification: September 5, 2016 ============ 6. VDS (Visualization in Data Science) ============ http://www.visualdatascience.org/2016/ Visualization is an integral part of data science, and essential to enable sophisticated analysis of data. VDS will bring together domain scientists and methods researchers (including data visualization, usability, data management, artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, programming environments, scalable software). Our goal is to bring together practitioners and researchers in data science and visualization to discuss common interests, talk about practical issues, and identify open research problems. Important Dates: Submission: August 5, 2016 Notification: August 26, 2016 Contact: contact(a)visualdatascience.org ============ 7. BioVis posters ============ http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/ The BioVis 2016 Posters track offers a venue to present and discuss new research in biological data visualization. Submissions take the form of a short (250-word) abstract with a supporting figure and are presented at the conference site as large format posters during a dedicated poster session. The BioVis workshop as a whole aims to promote interaction between the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities, and the BioVis poster session offers an interactive forum that encourages graphical presentation, demonstration, and active engagement with BioVis participants as well as all attendees of IEEE VIS. Important Dates: Submission: August 26, 2016 Notification: September 9, 2016 ============ 8. Other events ============ For Accepted VIS Workshops, please visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/overview-amp-topics/workshops For Accepted VIS Tutorials, please visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/overview-amp-topics/tutorials Best regards, — Jian (on behalf of IEEE VIS 2016 publicity) ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Asst. Prof. UMBC Innovation Fellow Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen

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Big Data is Complex. Don't Get Left Behind.
by H. Michelle Chen 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

In the May/June issue of Information Outlook, Peter Mulford of BTS points to the three W's framework as a tool to manage big data and turn it into insights. By asking who, what, and why, "the team will dramatically improve the odds of success by ensuring it is working on a problem the customer actually cares about." There's no doubt that big data is complex. Stay current in this rapidly growing field by earning a Certificate in Big Data <http://ischool.sjsu.edu/programs/certificate-big-data?utm_source=listservs&…> from the San Jose State University School of Information. As a student in this *fully online program*, you will learn how to: - Apply data mining techniques and applications to web mining utilizing open source data mining and Hadoop based tools; - Visualize and present abstract information in order to formulate data-driven business strategies; - Translate big data into insights that are essential to gaining a competitive advantage in the market. Gain these skills and more in just two semesters, with courses starting in August. *This is the last week to get your application in before the deadline of July 1, 2016*. Please visit our website <http://ischool.sjsu.edu/programs/big-data-certificate/admissions-process?ut…> for admissions requirements and link to the online application. If you have any questions, please email me at hsuanwei.chen(a)sjsu.edu. Best regards, Michelle Chen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, School of Information Program Coordinator, Certificate in Big Data San José State University One Washington Square, San José, CA 95192-0029 SJSU iSchool: ischool.sjsu.edu Certificate in Big Data: ischool.sjsu.edu/programs/certificate-big-data

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2-year postdoc research fellowship in HCI/Infovis, Copenhagen
by Mikkel Rønne Jakobsen 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

A two-year position as postdoctoral research fellow is available at University of Copenhagen in the Human-Computer Interaction Group at Department of Computer Science (http://www.diku.dk) The candidate will join the BIOPRO team to design and evaluate novel interactive visualizations that help domain experts develop and combine mathematical models and statistical models with online sensor-data with the ultimate goal of optimizing bio-based production processes. We work with domain experts from leading bio-based manufacturing companies in Denmark and with leading university researchers in chemical engineering, chemometrics, and applied statistics. Applicants are welcome to develop their own directions of research within the above context, and will have the opportunity to design both for workstations and high-resolution wall displays. Applicants must have a PhD in computer science and must have research experience in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction or Information Visualization. Knowledge of bio-based processes is not required; knowledge of predictive modeling is a plus, but is not mandatory. The deadline for applications is August 5, 2016. The position is for two years with a starting date in October 2016. For more information and directions on submitting an application, go to: http://diku.dk/english/about/vacancies/postdoc-biopro-hcc/ For questions or if you are interested in applying, please contact Mikkel R. Jakobsen (mikkelrj(a)di.ku.dk, http://www.mikkelrj.dk)

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VINCI 2016 call for poster
by jie.li＠tju.edu.cn 24 Jun '16

24 Jun '16

VINCI 2016 : The 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction Dallas, Texas, USA, 24-26 September 2016 (vinci-conf.org) Submission deadline for poster abstracts is June 30, 2016 (23:59 in PST). You are invited to submit a 2-page ACM double-column format for poster presentation at VINCI '16. Detailed information on the electronic submission can be found on the conference web page. All accepted posters abstracts will be published by ACM Press in the VINCI '16 Proceedings (EI-indexed). The best poster presentation will be selected and awarded at the conference.

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CFP: Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities
by Christopher Collins 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

We invite contributions for the 2016 Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities: http://www.vis4dh.com This will be a one day workshop taking place as part of IEEE VIS 2016 in Baltimore, MD. http://ieeevis.org/ The purpose of this workshop is to propose new research directions in visualization for the digital humanities, to familiarize the visualization research community with the problems faced by digital humanities researchers, and to foster future collaboration between visualization and digital humanities research. Despite the growing popularity of digital methods for research in the humanities, digital humanists are underserved by academics in visualization, and under-represented in visualization conferences. This is due to a number of factors: 1. The differences in rhetorics of proof and discovery (and so differences in data culture and use) in the humanities as opposed to other, typically scientific or analytic fields where visualization research is commonly focused. 2. The difficulty of performing task analysis and evaluation for many humanities questions, that may have no ground truth. 3. In text visualization specifically, the difference between the needs of digital humanists (who perform close readings and critical engagements with texts) as opposed to more standard text visualization scenarios (e.g. text analytics on datasets for intelligence or social media analysis). Addressing these difficulties requires exposure of these data issues, interdisciplinary collaboration, and steering of future research directions. Submission This workshop is seeking work from scholars in both visualization and the humanities who use visualization as part of the process of analyzing and interrogating human culture. Submissions will present original research ideas or results as they relate to visualization for the digital humanities. Each submission should clearly state its specific contribution to this growing field of research. Submissions will take the form of short (2-4 page) papers, falling into one of three submission types: - Extended Abstracts: These submissions are meant to highlight emerging visualization research in the digital humanities. The intention of these shorter submissions is to provide a platform for feedback for work that is still in progress, rather than present completed projects. - Short Papers: These submissions are meant to summarize more mature work in visualization for the digital humanities, including case studies, system descriptions, and empirical results. Of special consideration are works that highlight the difficulties (and propose solutions) of designing visualizations for the digital humanities. Applied work from the digital humanities that is highly visual in nature would also be considered for acceptance. - Position Papers: These submissions are meant to present viewpoints and opinions on the interplay between visualization and the digital humanities. These positions should be informed by deep involvement and experience in one (or ideally, both) fields. Position papers should be thought-provoking but also well-supported. Authors of accepted short and position papers will be invited for a 9-minute research presentation (including 2 minutes for audience questions). Additionally, they will participate in a moderated panel discussion. Authors of accepted extended abstracts will give 5 minute "fast-forward" presentations. Submissions should be in two-column IEEE TVCG format. Latex and Word templates available at: http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html Submissions will be optionally double blind. Authors wishing to submit their work double blind should remove author information from the cover page of their submitted document, and take care to avoid identifying information in the submission itself (e.g., references to "our" work). Submissions should be submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vis4dh2016 by 30 July, 2016. Submissions should be in pdf format, and the submission email should clearly indicate the paper type: extended abstract, short paper, or position paper. Submissions should not exceed four pages. Topics The focus of this workshop is on applied visualization in the digital humanities, as well as highlighting domains in the digital humanities with unmet visualization challenges. These applications and domains include, but are not limited to: · Literature · Philology and Linguistics · Art and Art Criticism · Political Science · Performance (Music, Dance, Film, and Theatre) · Cultural and Historical Studies We are especially interested in a number of open questions in this space, including: · The impact of visual analytics systems on research in the digital humanities: - How can interactive visualizations support new questions, and new scales of research, in the DH community? - How can we encourage DH scholars to seek out visualizations, or collaboration with visualization researchers? · Characteristics of visualization for the digital humanities: - How does visualization with a DH focus differ from general research in the visualization community? How do their user groups differ? - How can we remove obstacles for humanities scholars wanting to use visual analytics approaches for their research? · How digital humanities research questions and tasks can push the frontier of visualization research: - What challenges are there for developing systems with novelty in both visualization and DH communities? - How do we evaluate visualizations where we lack ground truth data? Dates Submission Deadline: 30 July, 2016 Notification Deadline: 12 August, 2016 Camera Ready Submission Deadline: 26 August, 2016 IEEE VIS Conference: 23-28 October, 2016 Organizers Christopher Collins, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (contact: christopher.collins(a)uoit.ca) Michael Correll, University of Washington (contact: mcorrell(a)cs.wisc.edu) Mennatallah El-Assady, University of Konstanz Stefan Jänicke, University of Leipzig Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz David Wrisley, New York University Abu Dhabi / American University of Beirut Program Committee (partial) Markus John, University of Stuttgart Steffen Koch, University of Stuttgart Shejuti Silvia, University of Oklahoma Eric Alexander, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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2016 Workshop on Visualization in Practice: Open Source Visualization and Visual Analytics Software
by Oelke, Daniela 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

***************************************************** 2016 Workshop on Visualization in Practice Call for Abstracts http://visinpractice.org/ ****************************************************** The 2016 Workshop on Visualization in Practice is an opportunity for visualization practitioners and researchers to meet and share experiences, insights, and ideas in applying the latest visualization and visual analytics research to real world problems. The focus of this year's workshop will be the design, development, distribution, and application of open source visualization and visual analytics software. The workshop will include an invited keynote, a session of talks, and a poster session in which live demonstrations of open source tools will be given. All accepted submissions will be given the opportunity to present in the poster/demonstration session. At the discretion of the conference organizers, approximately 12 submissions will also be selected to give an oral presentation during the talk session. The 2016 VIP workshop will be held in conjunction with IEEE VIS in Baltimore, Maryland during the week of October 23-28. Topics --------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Design of open source visualization or visual analytic systems and libraries - Demonstrations of new open source tools that address practical visualization problems - Critiques of existing open source visualization systems, informed by real-world usage, with suggestions for improvement - Retrospectives on the process of turning research prototypes into robust, open source software - Discussions of the state of the open source visualization ecosystem---how well do existing tools interoperate? where are there substantial gaps? - Best practices for using open source visualization tools and adopting them within organizations - Proposals for researcher-practitioner collaborations to address real-world visualization challenges We especially encourage submissions from practitioners who apply visualization and visual analytics to real-world problems in journalism, industry, national laboratories, government, non-profits, etc. Submission ---------------- We solicit submissions of extended abstracts of up to 2 pages, IEEE paper format guidelines (http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html) plus up to 12 additional figures (beyond those in the abstract) which cover the visual content you would include in your final poster or in a talk, if invited to give one. The images should be appended to the 2-page document (thus, your whole document may have more than 2 pages). You are invited to use captions in order to explain your images. To clarify, we count a Latex figure as one item regardless of how many sub-images it contains. Optionally, you may submit a video (MPEG, AVI, or Quicktime format, duration at most 5 minutes) showing your methods or processes in action. This will be most helpful for demonstrating the effectiveness of your approach. If you would like to have your video included in the conference USB stick, it should not exceed 100MB. Abstracts will be reviewed for their potential applicability to the VIP workshop audience and their potential positive impact on the broader open source visualization community. Additionally, they will be reviewed for timeliness, clarity, and overall quality of writing. Where applicable, the described open source software will also be reviewed for robustness, applicability, ease of access (e.g. github repository), licensing, documentation, and ease of running an initial demonstration. Submissions should provide clear directions to where the software can be downloaded. Note that research novelty is explicitly not a criteria for evaluation at the VIP workshop. All submissions for the 2016 Workshop on Visualization in Practice should be submitted via the Precision Conference System (link will be posted at http://visinpractice.org) Submissions must be received on or before July 29, 2016 to be considered. Questions about this workshop or requests for help with submission problems can also be sent to vip(a)ieeevis.org<mailto:vip@ieeevis.org>. In order to maintain interactive and exciting presentations and posters, we require that at least one presenter per accepted submission attend the workshop. Important Dates --------------------- Submission Deadline: July 29, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: August 26, 2016 Final Submission (Camera-ready): September 9, 2016 Workshop: October 24, 2016 Publication -------------- All submitted abstracts and the accompanying material will be published on the workshop's website and on the IEEE Vis conference USB stick. Organizers --------------- Bernd Hentschel - RWTH Aachen University Alan Keahey - IBM Daniela Oelke - Siemens AG Justin Talbot - Tableau Research

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IEEE VIS BELIV workshop deadline extension: June 19, 2016
by Jian Chen 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

BELIV 2016 - Beyond Time and Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualization http://www.beliv.org We invite contributions to BELIV 2016, the international workshop on evaluation in visualization. Established scientific methods like controlled experiments and standard metrics like time and error continue to be the workhorse of evaluation in visualization.Yet, there is a growing need for the visualization community to develop dedicated evaluation approaches and metrics for evaluation at all stages of the development life cycle that address specific needs in visualization. The goal of the workshop is to continue the discussion and spread the word on alternative and novel evaluation methods and methodologies for visualization. Important dates: Paper submission: June 19, 2016 (new deadline) First notification: July 10, 2016 Revisions: July 20, 2016 Final notification: Aug 5, 2016 Camera-ready copy: Aug 31, 2016 Contact: beliv.workshop(a)gmail.com Best regards, -- Jian (on behalf of IEEE VIS publicity) ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor UMBC Innovation Fellow Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen

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VINCI 2016 call for poster
by jie.li＠tju.edu.cn 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

VINCI 2016 : The 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction Dallas, Texas, USA, 24-26 September 2016 (vinci-conf.org) Submission deadline for poster abstracts is June 30, 2016 (23:59 in PST). You are invited to submit a 2-page ACM double-column format for poster presentation at VINCI '16. Detailed information on the electronic submission can be found on the conference web page. All accepted posters abstracts will be published by ACM Press in the VINCI '16 Proceedings (EI-indexed). The best poster presentation will be selected and awarded at the conference.

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Call for Nominations - IEEE VGTC Doctoral Dissertation Award
by Wong, Pak C 11 Jun '16

11 Jun '16

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS The IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/bestthesis/ DEADLINE: July 31, 2016 IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) sponsors the annual Best Doctoral Dissertation Award program to recognize outstanding academic research and development in visualization and visual analytics. The dissertations must address a topic relevant to visualization or visual analytics. The competition will be administrated by the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG) under the auspices of IEEE VGTC. The IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually at the IEEE VPG Reception held at the IEEE VIS conference. ELIGIBILITY All English language dissertations that have been successfully defended between July 31 two years before the award and July 31 of the year of the competition are eligible (e.g. between July 31, 2014 and July 31, 2016 are eligible for the 2016 competition). SUBMISSION LIMITATION There is no limitation on the number of nominations that may be made by a university. SUBMISSION DEADLINE Nomination packets must be received by 5pm PDT on July 31, 2016. SELECTION PROCEDURE Five IEEE VPG members will form a review committee to thoroughly review and assess the dissertation submissions. The committee will judge the dissertations based on their intellectual merit, technical depth, and presentation quality. The selection committee will recommend the winning dissertation to the IEEE VGTC chair by October 1. AWARDS The winner of the IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award will receive not only a monetary prize of $500 provided by IEEE VGTC, but also a chance to describe the impact of the winning dissertation in an invited article that may be published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A). Professor Jim Foley of Georgia Tech and the editor of the CG&A Dissertation Impact Department will make the final determination about whether the article will be published. The CG&A Dissertation Impact Department recognizes the best and brightest dissertation work nominated by different visualization, computer graphics, and virtual reality technical communities from around the world. SUBMISSION DETAILS The student's advisor should email the nomination package to vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org. The package must include: 1. A nomination letter written by the student's advisor, which includes: * the name, email address, and phone number of the advisor, * the name and email address of the candidate, and * a one-page summary of the significance of the dissertation (references to papers should be provided on an extra sheet) 2. A copy of the dissertation. Optional additional letters of recommendation can be attached to the submission.

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