[Infovis] WSOM+2019, Barcelona, Spain: LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

[Alfredo Vellido]

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LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *******

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WSOM+ 2019
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13th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector 
Quantization, Clustering and Data Visualization
Barcelona, Spain, 26-28 June 2019
https://wsom2019.cs.upc.edu
wsom2019 at easychair.org

Barcelona awaits your participation in the 13th WSOM+ conference!
Hosted by the Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence 
(IDEAI) Research Center at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC 
BarcelonaTech), WSOM+ 2019 aims to build on a successful string of 
editions that started more than two decades ago with WSOM’97 in Helsinki.
Program available @ https://wsom2019.cs.upc.edu/at-a-glance
WSOM+19 will include an AI-companies workshop on Thu afternoon (27th), 
where our sponsors will participate in a round table.
Meet us in the Barcelona summer!

*** REGISTRATION ***
The WSOM+2019 Registration System is available @ 
https://wsom2019.cs.upc.edu/registration

*** INVITED SPEAKERS ***
Paulo J.G. Lisboa, Head of Department of Applied Mathematics at 
Liverpool John Moores University, U.K.
"Unsupervised ML in Sports Analytics"

Tobias Schreck, Institute for Computer Graphics and Knowledge 
Visualization at the Faculty for Computer Science and Biomedical 
Engineering of TU Graz, Austria
"Visual Analytics Techniques for Data Exploration: Visual Cluster 
Analysis, Interactive Data Modeling, and User Guidance"

Aïda Valls, Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Universitat 
Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain.
"Ontology-based Clustering for Managing Semantic Data and its Use in 
Tourism Applications"

Alessandro Sperduti, Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, 
Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy.
"Self-organizing Maps for Structured Data: from Unsupervised to Deep 
Supervised Models"

*** SOCIAL EVENTS ***
A welcome cocktail by the beach to get in the mood, after the first day 
of the conference (June 26th). It will happen at the Barcelona 
Biomedical Research Park (PRBB, http://www.prbb.org)
Gala Dinner at Palau Requesens, a Gothic palace built on top of the 
ancient Roman walls of Barcino. Right at the heart of the old city and, 
you might say, at the heart of Catalan culture.
Guided tour of Barcelona city center.

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WSOM+ 2019
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Organizing Committee
Alfredo Vellido, Chair (IDEAI, UPC BarcelonaTech)
Karina Gibert (IDEAI, UPC BarcelonaTech)
Cecilio Angulo (IDEAI, UPC BarcelonaTech)
José David Martín (Universitat de València)

Steering Committee:
Teuvo Kohonen (Honorary Chairman, Finland)
Marie Cottrell (France)
Pablo Estevez (Chile)
Timo Honkela (Finland)
Jean Charles Lamirel (France)
Thomas Martinetz (Germany)
Erzsebet Merenyi (USA)
Madalina Olteanu (France)
Michel Verleysen (Belgium)
Thomas Villmann (Germany)
Takeshi Yamakawa (Japan)
Hujun Yin (UK)

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