*IEEE VIS 2018============http://ieeevis.org/ <http://ieeevis.org/>Oct 21-26 2018, Berlin, GermanyIEEE VIS 2018 is the premier forum for advances in visualization. The event-packed week brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to explore their shared interests in tools, techniques, and technology. We invite you to participate in IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis), and IEEE Scientific Visualization (SciVis) by sharing your research, insights, experience, and enthusiasm.We solicit Visualization in Data Science and Meetups submissions, and Posters for LDAV for IEEE VIS 2018 in Berlin, Germany. In addition, VISKids Child Care Grants submissions are now open, as is the conference and hotel registration!====================Diversity Scholarships====================IEEE VIS 2018 provides Diversity Scholarships, which are intended to support early career researchers from underrepresented groups in computer science to broaden participation. The Inclusivity and Diversity program (http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/inclusion-and-diversity/inclusivity <http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/inclusion-and-diversity/inclusivity>) provides grants to VIS attendees to pay for registration and other costs incurred while attending the VIS conference. Please contact inclusivity@ieeevis.org <inclusivity@ieeevis.org> for any questions regarding this program.====================VISKids Child Care Grants====================Submission deadline: September 4, 2018The VIS conference is excited to support our VISKids and young families! Grants of up to $500 per family are available for VIS attendees who are bringing small children to the conference or who incur extra expenses in leaving their children at home. If requests exceed available funding, or if additional funding becomes available, preference will be given to students and early career attendees who are presenting at the conference.For details and application instructions, visit: http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/inclusion-and-diversity/viskids-child-care... <http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/inclusion-and-diversity/viskids-child-care-grants>Contact: VISKids@ieeevis.org <VISKids@ieeevis.org> ====================Student Volunteers====================Congrats to Damla Çay for winning the IEEE VIS 2018 Student Volunteer T-Shirt Design Contest. Her design, BauVis, was the overwhelming selection in this year's contest, receiving nearly 70% of the total vote! Design title: BauVisAffiliation: Koç University, Istanbul, TurkeyStatement: Graphical abstraction is an essential part of visualization, as it is for the German Art School, Bauhaus. This design is inspired by the Poster for the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition in Weimar <https://www.bauhaus100.de/en/past/works/graphics-typography/plakat-zur-bauhaus-ausstellung-in-weimar-1923/>. The front side incorporates a composition of the word "VIS", with a hidden "18", to represent the year 2018. The back side has the initials "SV" and the VIS logo.We’re excited to see all our student volunteers sporting the shirt in October!====================LDAV Posters====================Poster Submission Deadline: August 24, 2018We invite you to submit to the IEEE LDAV 2018 Poster Program. Interested authors should submit a two-page abstract that either:(1) showcases successful stories of applying visualization to large-scale data intensive application, or(2) highlights recent such visualization work presented or published in another venue. Accepted poster abstracts will be included in the symposium proceedings.Modern large-scale scientific simulations, sensor networks, and experiments are generating enormous datasets. Managing and analyzing large datasets to generate insights is critical for a variety of disciplines including climate science, nuclear physics, security, materials design, transportation, and urban planning. The 8th IEEE Large Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) symposium, to be held in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2018, is specifically targeting methodological innovation, algorithmic foundations, and possible end-to-end solutions. The LDAV symposium will bring together domain scientists, data analysts, visualization researchers, and users to foster common ground for solving both near- and long-term problems.For details, visit http://ldav.org/ <http://ldav.org/>Contact: posters@ldav.org <posters@ldav.org>====================Meetups====================Rolling Submission: August 4, 2018 to October 20, 2018 Do you want to meet people who share the same interests with you, discuss a topic that you care about or that brings the visualization community forward, or share viewpoints and experiences to foster community building? If yes, don’t wait, and submit a meetup proposal! Meetups are an excellent forum to discuss a wide range of topics related to visualization. Be it to share your knowledge in an informal setting, to discuss methods and trends in visualization research, to provide information about the VIS organization, or to plan a social event, the possibilities are yours to imagine! Meetups are a public and open forum for everyone (the meetup organizers need to register at the conference). For details, visit http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/call-participation/meetups <http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/call-participation/meetups>Contact: meetups@ieeevis.org <meetups@ieeevis.org> ====================Conference and Hotel Registration====================Conference registration and Hotel registration is open!You may register to IEEE VIS 2018 now via the conference homepage ieeevis.org <http://ieeevis.org>.Note that- Early bird deadline for conference registration is September 7, 2018.- The current hotel room rates are guaranteed only until July 27, 2018. After this, hotel rooms at the conference hotel are subject to availability.http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/registration/conference-registration <http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/registration/conference-registration>http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/registration/hotel-information <http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/registration/hotel-information>==================== Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ieeevis <https://twitter.com/ieeevis>Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis <https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis> *