Paper submission deadline for SPIE 2012 Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) has been extended to Monday, Aug 1, 2011. For the best VDA conference papers that are led by a student author, the conference will offer a modest monetary award sponsored by U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Visualization and Analytics Center (NVAC). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers SPIE 2012 Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis January 22-23, 2012 Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Burlingame, CA http://vda-conference.org Important Dates =============== Paper Submission Deadline: August 1, 2011 Notification: September 12, 2011 Final Manuscripts: November 14, 2011 Keynote Speakers: * Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University * Tom Malzbender, HP Labs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) 2012 covers all research and development and application aspects of data visualization and, more recently, visual analytics. Since the first VDA conference was held in 1994, the annual event has grown steadily into a major venue for visualization researchers and practitioners from around the world to present their work and share their experience every year. We invite you to participate by submitting your original research as full paper or a poster. Both paper and poster submissions will be peer reviewed. The average paper acceptance rate of recent VDA conferences was about 50%. Papers presented at this conference will be published in a bound proceedings published by IS&T/SPIE. Papers and posters are solicited on all topics of data visualization, including: * Internet imaging, medical imaging, image processing * Biomedical visualization and applications * Internet, web, and security visualizations * Analysis techniques and data mining * Data exploration using classical and novel approaches * Databases and visualization * High-performance computing and parallel rendering * Tools and applications exemplified by case studies * Virtual environments and data visualization * Information and scientific visualization * Volume and flow visualization * Interaction paradigms and human factors Authors of the best papers will be invited to revise and extend their work for publication in a special issue of the journal Information Visualization. Questions regarding paper submission or conference participation should be directed to the conference chairs: * Pak Chung Wong (pak.wong@pnnl.gov), Pacific Northwest National Lab * David L. Kao (david.l.kao@nasa.gov), NASA Ames Research Center * Ming C. Hao (ming_hao@hp.com), Hewlett-Packard Labs * Chaomei Chen (Chaomei.Chen@cis.drexel.edu), Drexel University ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steering Committee ================== * Umeshwar Dayal, Hewlett Packard Laboratories * Robert Erbacher, Northwest Security Institute Conference Chairs ================= * Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * David Kao, NASA Ames Research Center * Ming C. Hao, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories * Chaomei Chen, Drexel University Conference Co-Chairs ==================== * Robert Kosara, University of North Carolina Charlotte * Mark A. Livingston, Naval Research Laboratory * Jinah Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Program Committee ================= * Madjid Allili, Bishop's University * Loretta Auvil, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign * Guoning Chen, University of Utah * Yi-Jen Chiang, Polytechnic Institute of NYU * Paul Craig, Napier University * Marian Dörk, University of Calgary * Sussan Einakian, University of Alabama in Huntsville * Carsten Görg, Georgia Institute of Technology * Matti T. Grohn, CSC-Scientific Computing * Halldor Janetzko, University of Konstanz * Ming Jiang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * Alark Joshi, Boise State University * Dan Keefe, University of Minnesota * Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz * Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research * Bob Lewis, Washington State University * Peter Lindstrom, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * Lars Linsen, Jacobs University, Bremen * Zhanping Liu, University of Pennsylvania * Lucille T. Nowell, U.S. Department of Energy * Harald Obermaier, University of Kaiserslautern * Renato Pajarola, University of Zürich * Donald A. Pelligrino, Jr., Drexel University * William Pike, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * Aaron J. Quigley, University of St. Andrews * Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Computer Graphics and E-Learning * Tobias Schreck, University of Konstanz * Christopher D. Shaw, Simon Fraser University * Han-Wei Shen, The Ohio State University * Mike Sips, German Research Center for Geoscience * Kalpathi R. Subramanian, University of North Carolina at Charlotte * Yinlong Sun, Purdue University * Soon Tee Teoh, San Jose State University * Matthew O. Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute * Yingcai Xiao, University of Akron * Ciaxia Zhang, Google, Inc. * Jian Zhang, Drexel University * Song Zhang, Mississippi State University