*************************************************************** * * Call for Participation - Visual Analytics Education Workshop * *************************************************************** On Monday August 30, in conjunction with the Visual Analytics Community Consortium meeting (http://nvac.pnl.gov/meeting_2010/), we are holding a one-day workshop on visual analytics education at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. This workshop is intended to bring together those currently teaching courses closely related to visual analytics and those who are interested in doing so. The workshop is free. The goals of this workshop are to share lessons learned and best practices in teaching visual analytics, and to develop an example curriculum that will be vetted with the broader academic community. The workshop will feature interactive presentations by several people who have developed or taught visual analytics related courses. It also will include breakouts and group discussions on particular topics related to visual analytics education. We anticipate that topics such as course content and topics, assignments, teaching style, multi-course curricula, and many others will be discussed. This workshop is being organized by a group including Richard Fujimoto, Guy Lebanon, Haesun Park, and John Stasko from Georgia Tech; David Ebert, Marti Burns, and Tim Collins from Purdue; Georges Grinstein from U. Massachusetts-Lowell; and Richard May and Kris Cook from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. It is a joint effort of the FODAVA, NVAC, VACCINE, and CCICADA Centers. What you'll get from participating: a chance to talk to your colleagues about your experiences, learn from their experiences, and work together to develop and refine ideas for visual analytics education, courses, and curricula. =============================================== Important Dates =============================================== * Friday August 13, 2010 - Registration deadline While the workshop is free, we do require that participants register by the deadline for our planning purposes. To register, please send an email to nvac.consortium@pnl.gov with the names, email addresses, and affiliations of attendees. ================================================ For More Information ================================================ More information about the workshop can be found at the website: http://nvac.pnl.gov/meeting_2010/workshop.stm. For hotel and travel information, please see the VAC Consortium Meeting website: http://nvac.pnl.gov/meeting_2010/.