[Apologies if you receive this more than once] IEEE PacificVis 2013 Sydney, Australia, February 26 to March 1, 2013 http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/it/~pvis2013 ----------------------------------------------- The 6th PacificVis (Pacific Visualization) will be held in Sydney, Australia during February 26 to March 1, 2013. As part of PacificVis, workshop/tutorial sessions will be held on February 26, with the Symposium starting from February 27. Information Technology currently faces the challenges of Big Data. Human understanding of massive data sets can be enhanced with visualization. PacificVis is an IEEE sponsored international visualization symposium held in the Asia-Pacific region, with the objective to foster greater exchange between visualization researchers and practitioners, and to draw more researchers in the Asia-Pacific region to enter this rapidly growing area of research. Program at a Glance (Preliminary) --------------------------------- http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/it/~pvis2013/program/programataglance Day 1 Tuesday, 26 February 09:00 - Registration 09:30 - 12:00 Tutorial I, Graph Drawing Karsten Klein, The University of Sydney Michael Newton, NewtonGreen Technologies 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 16:30 PacificVAST The PacificVAST2013 program will consist of a series of invited presentations. Workshop Chair: Seok-Hee Hong, The University of Sydney 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break 17:00 - 19:00 Reception Day 2 Wednesday, 27 February 08:30 - Registration 08:45 - 09:00 Open Session 09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speech I, Graph Animation Giuseppe Di Battista, Università Roma Tre 10:00 - 10:20 Coffee Break 10:20 - 11:40 Session 1, Text & Map Visualization(4 papers @ 20min) 11:40 - 12:00 Poster Fast Forward 12:00 - 13:40 Lunch 13:40 - 15:00 Session 2, Big Data Visualisation (4 papers @ 20min) 15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break 15:20 - 16:40 Session 3, Volume Rendering (4 papers @ 20min) 17:00 - 19:00 Poster Session Day 3 Thursday, 28 February 08:30 - Registration 09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speech II, Interdisciplinary Vis Donna Cox, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) 10:00 - 10:20 Coffee Break 10:20 - 12:00 Session 4, Visualization in Medicine and Natural Sciences (5 papers @ 20min) 12:00 - 13:40 Lunch 13:40 - 15:00 Session 5, Time-varying and Multivariate Visualization (4 papers @ 20min) 15:00 - 15:40 Coffee Break 15:40 - 17:00 Session 6, Visual Analytics (4 papers @ 20min) 18:00 - 20:00 Banquet Day 4 Friday, 1 March 09:00 - 10:20 Session 7, Tree and Graph Visualization (4 papers @ 20min) 10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break 10:50 - 12:30 Session 8, Vector and Tensor Fields Visualization (5 papers @ 20min) 12:30 - 13:00 Closing Session and Best Paper Award Contact Email: pvis2013@it.usyd.edu.au Symposium Co-Chairs: Peter Eades, The University of Sydney Hans Hagen, University of Kaiserslautern Program Co-Chairs: Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary Wei Chen, Zhejiang University Seokhee Hong, University of Sydney Poster Co-Chairs Shixia Liu, Microsoft Research Asia Quang Vinh Nguyen, University of Western Sydney Shigeo Takahashi, University of Tokyo Publicity Chair: Jinman Kim, The University of Sydney Organizing Chair: Karsten Klein, The University of Sydney Steering Committee: Issei Fujishiro, Keio University Seokhee Hong, University of Sydney Arie Kaufman, Stony Brook University Kwan-Liu Ma (Chair), University of California, Davis Huamin Qu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology