[Infovis] GD 2024 -- 2nd Call for Participation

[Martin Nöllenburg]

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2nd Call for Participation

GD 2024

32nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization

September 18-20, 2024 -- Vienna, Austria
https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2024/

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TL;DR

- Early registration deadline approaching on Tuesday, August 20, 2024
- Booking period of reserved hotel rooms in Motel One Wien Westbahnhof ending on August 21, 2024

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The 32nd edition of the International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2024) will take place at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, on September 18-20, 2024, with a reception on the evening of September 17. 

The pre-conference PhD school takes place September 16-17, 2024.

The conference will also feature a poster session, a software exhibition, the traditional Graph Drawing Contest, and keynote talks from distinguished invited speakers:

- Otfried Cheong - SCALGO, Denmark
- Monika Henzinger - Institute of Science and Technology Austria


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TENTATIVE PROGRAM

The tentative program and the list of accepted papers are available here:

https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2024/pages/program/


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REGISTRATION

**The early registration phase ends on Tuesday, August 20 (23:59 CEST).**
Instructions on how to register can be found at https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2024/pages/registration/.

The conference fees are:

Student Early (until August 20): 260 Euro
Full Early (until August 20): 360 Euro

Student Late (from August 21): 350 Euro
Full Late (from August 21): 450 Euro

On-site registration will not be possible.

The conference fee includes the welcome reception (17/09), coffee breaks, three lunches (18/09, 19/09, 20/09), the social dinner (19/09), and the LIPIcs publication fees.


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PHD SCHOOL

A pre-conference PhD school (https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2024/pages/school/) on Graph Drawing will take place at the conference venue on September 16-17, 2024. The PhD school early registration fee is 50 Euro (until August 20) and the late registration fee is 70 Euro (from August 21). Registration includes the participation at the lectures and coffee breaks. Registration for the PhD school is via the same registration link as for the main conference and can be booked individually or combined with the main conference.

The PhD School speakers are

- Thekla Hamm - TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Philipp Kindermann - Trier University, Germany
- Tamara Mchedlidze - Utrecht University, Netherlands
- Manfred Scheucher - TU Berlin, Germany


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ACCOMMODATION

Vienna has a large variety of accommodation options from hotels at all levels to AirBnB apartments or hostels. We list several suitable hotels/hostels on the webpage https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2024/pages/travel_accomodation/#accommodation  

**We have reserved a number of single/double rooms in Motel One Wien Westbahnhof, which are still available for booking until August 21.** See the above webpage on instructions of how to book them as long as availability lasts.

Generally we recommend booking at your earliest convenience since September is usually a month with high visitor numbers in Vienna.


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TRAVEL

Vienna can be easily reached by rail, air, bus, and car, see the travel page for some recommendations: https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2024/pages/travel_accomodation/

If you decide to travel by plane, notice that there is a special discount code for booking with the Lufthansa Group (Austrian, Lufthansa, Eurowings, Swiss, Brussels Airlines) as a GD24 travel partner. See the above webpage for the booking URL.



We look forward to seeing you in Vienna soon!

Stefan Felsner and Karsten Klein
PC chairs of GD 2024

Robert Ganian and Martin Nöllenburg
Local chairs of GD 2024