[Infovis] IEEE VIS 2015 CFP: Tutorials and Workshops

[Jian Chen]

IEEE VIS 2015

http://ieeevis.org

Call for Tutorials:
http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/tutorials
Call for Workshops:
http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/workshops

Deadline: April 30 2015

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Tutorials:
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Tutorials are intended to cover a wide selection of topics related to IEEE
VIS 2015 and provide background on new tools and application domains
necessary for research in data and information visualization and visual
analytics. Tutorial attendees come from diverse backgrounds, including
volume visualization and rendering, information visualization, geographic
visualization, visual analytics, high performance computing, and scientific
application communities.

We are soliciting half-day tutorial proposals in the areas of visualization
systems, mathematical foundations, methods, and application areas. We
welcome course proposals that introduce emerging technologies to the
visualization community, as well as proposals on more traditional
visualization topics. Topics can include--but are not limited to--any of
those listed in the calls for papers for VAST, InfoVis, and SciVis.
Tutorials with an application focus are also encouraged.

TUTORIAL DETAIL

Proposals will be evaluated on the basis of the tutorial's importance and
suitability for presentation in a tutorial format, the past experience and
qualifications of the instructors, the overall balance in the tutorial
program, and the likely attendance of the tutorial.

All tutorial proposals should include:

   - The level of the tutorial (beginning, intermediate, or advanced)
   - An abstract of the tutorial topic
   - A description of the tutorial's organization including time allocation
   and outline for major course topics (500 word minimum)
   - The background and contact information for each instructor.

Proposals should not exceed two (maximum three) pages, and should be
submitted via PCS <http://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/>. Please note
the formatting
guidelines <http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html> when
preparing your submission.

Feel free to address any questions concerning submission, format, and
content to tutorials(at)ieeevis.org.


*IMPORTANT DATES*
Deadline: April 30, 2015

CHAIRS

Natalia Andrienko, Fraunhofer IAIS and City University London
Joao Comba, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Shixia Liu, Tsinghua University

For more information, email tutorials(at)ieeevis.org

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Workshops
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We solicit workshops related to all areas of visualization including
information visualization and visual analytics. The workshops venue at IEEE
VIS provides an informal setting for participants to discuss advanced
technical topics in visualization, involve experts in the field,
disseminate work in progress, and promote new ideas.

Workshops should:

   - emphasize emerging ideas, concepts, or technologies that are currently
   too nascent or too interdisciplinary for a full symposium, or
   - bring together experts on a subject to create a report, white-paper,
   or proposal requiring interactive work sessions that is of potential
   interest to a substantial segment of the visualization community.

A distinction that separates workshops from tutorials and symposia is that
the information flow for a workshop should not be directed solely from the
presenters to the audience. Rather, workshops should engage the
participation of all attendees. *Workshops at IEEE VIS are open to all
registered attendees* and 'invitation only' workshops will not be approved.

Papers submitted and presented as part of this workshop will not be
published in the proceedings of the conference. Depending on interest and
actual time schedule of each workshop, it may be possible to include
workshop material on the USB drive for dissemination to venue attendees. If
you wish to have your materials considered for printed publication, please
submit the paper to the main conference or the related symposia.

Workshops complement the main program of the conference; as such, workshops
and panels will be chosen this year to encourage a diversity of topics.

Proposals should include:

   - title
   - contact details of the organizers
   - brief description of organizers' background, related publications and
   research
   - goals, technical scope, the mission, or proposed focus
   - planned activities
   - length (full or half day)
   - statement of the organization and development of the list of
   participants (intended size, detailed selection procedures and timeline for
   finalizing workshop presenters)
   - requested facilities (room setup as a round table, lecture theater, or
   in a panel format)
   - intended result & impact of the workshop results.

The proposal should not exceed four pages. Please visit
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html  for formatting guidelines. The
proposal should be submitted via PCS here
<http://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/>.

The workshops will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

   - the potential for inspiring people, being influential, and opening new
   lines of research,
   - the ability to attract people and make them excited about it,
   - the appropriateness with IEEE VIS topics,
   - the qualification of the organizers,
   - the feasibility of the proposed plan (financial, time plan, etc.), and
   - the coherence of the proposed topic.


If the proposed workshop is a follow-up on a previous workshop, please
include a discussion of the results and impact of the previous workshop.
The aim of workshops is to include a variety of topics, thus repeat
submissions will be judged in part by the success of the previous workshop.
Workshop success will be measured subjectively, but popularity, research
impact, visibility and attendee feedback will all be taken into account.

In addition the workshop chairs will try to balance the proposed topics in
order to support the diversity of topics within the IEEE VIS venue.


*IMPORTANT DATES*
Proposal Submission: April 30, 2015

Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2015

*CHAIRS*

Markus Hadwiger, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Nathalie Henry Riche, Microsoft Research Redmond
Ross Maciejewski, Arizona State Universtity

For further information, please email workshops(at)ieeevis.org.


Best regards,
 - Jian
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Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Prof.
CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore County
http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen