<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</div><div><br></div><div>PacificVis 2011: The 4th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium</div><div><br></div><div>Hong Kong, China</div><div>March 1-4, 2011</div><div><br></div><div>Conference Co-Chairs</div><div>Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart</div><div>Wenping Wang, The University of Hong Kong</div><div><br></div><div>Organizers</div><div>Yi-King Choi, The University of Hong Kong</div><div>Pedro Sander, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology</div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>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. The former name of PacificVis was APVIS (Asia-Pacific Symposium on Information Visualization). This new venue has an expanded scope to include all areas of visualization, and a sponsorship to allow us to achieve a more wide-spread impact.</div><div><br></div><div>The 4th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis 2011) will be held in Hong Kong, a splendid mixture of tradition and modernity as well as a center of business in the world.</div><div><br></div><div>[Early registration deadline: Feb 11, 2011]</div><div><br></div><div>On-line registration is now available at</div><div><a href="http://i.cs.hku.hk/%7Epvis2011/attending/registration.html">http://i.cs.hku.hk/~pvis2011/attending/registration.html</a> </div><div><br></div><div>and the conference program can be found at</div><div><a href="http://i.cs.hku.hk/%7Epvis2011/attending/program.html">http://i.cs.hku.hk/~pvis2011/attending/program.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------</div><div>HIGHLIGHTS</div><div>-------------------</div><div>* 3 Keynote speeches</div><div>* 26 technical papers</div><div>* 19 poster papers</div><div>* 1 panel discussion</div><div>* 2 tutorials</div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------------</div><div>KEYNOTE SPEAKERS</div><div>-----------------------------------</div><div>* Arie Kaufman, Stony Brook University, USA</div><div>* Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California at Davis, USA</div><div>* Ulrik Brandes, University of Konstanz, Germany</div><div><br></div><div>-----------</div><div>PANEL</div><div>-----------</div><div>Visualization Research in Asia Pacific</div><div><br></div><div>Panelist:</div><div>* Issei Fujishiro, Keio University</div><div>* Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney</div><div>* Tung-Ju Hsieh, National Taipei University of Technology</div><div>* Shixia Liu, Microsoft Research Asia</div><div>* Qunzheng Peng, Zhejiang University</div><div>* Huamin Qu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology</div><div>* Jinwook Seo, Seoul National University</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>