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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>* * * Deadline: July 31, 2013 * * *<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>---------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>IEEE Computer Society Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) has recently established the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award program to recognize outstanding academic research and development in visualization and visual analytics. The dissertations must address a topic relevant to visualization or visual analytics. The competition will be administrated by the IEEE VGTC Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG) under the auspices of VGTC. The award, to be known as the IEEE/VGTC Visualization Pioneers Group Doctoral Dissertation Award, will be presented annually at the VPG Reception held at IEEE VIS conference (<a href="http://www.ieeevis.org/">http://www.ieeevis.org/</a>).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>To learn more about the award, please visit <a href="http://vgtc.org/vpg-awards.html">http://vgtc.org/vpg-awards.html</a>. For questions, contact <a href="mailto:vpg_awards@vgtc.org">vpg_awards@vgtc.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>More information on the Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG) can be found at <a href="http://vgtc.org/vpg.html">http://vgtc.org/vpg.html</a>. If you have questions or are interested in becoming a VPG supporter, please contact <a href="mailto:vpg@vgtc.org">vpg@vgtc.org</a> for more information.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>