<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi everyone-<div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">IEEE VIS 2015 is proud to offer our attendees activities to socialize and meet fellow VIS researchers through the </span><b class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Digital Compass</b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">events. One of our goals in organizing the Compass activities at the main IEEE VIS conference is to support the next generation of visualization researchers by helping connect beginning and advanced researchers from the scientific visualization, information visualization and visual analytics communities.</span></div><div class=""><br class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Compass activities are open to all registered IEEE VIS participants. The activities are organized by the IEEE VIS Compass Chairs.</span><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/overview-amp-topics/digital-compass" class="">http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/overview-amp-topics/digital-compass</a><br class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CONTACT</span><br class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For more information contact IEEE VIS 2014 Compass Chairs:</span><br class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alex Endert, Georgia Tech</span><br class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Daniel Best, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory</span><br class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mohammad Ghoniem, Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Email: <a href="mailto:compass@ieeevis.org" class="">compass@ieeevis.org</a></span></div></div></body></html>