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<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-2d1e8635-8518-cd4d-41b0-98534137bc0c"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">IEEE VIS 2016</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="http://ieeevis.org/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">http://ieeevis.org/</span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">23 - 28 October, 2016</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Baltimore, Maryland, USA</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> </p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Follow us on Twitter:</span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/ieeevis" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> https://twitter.com/ieeevis</span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Facebook:</span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis</span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">LinkedIn:</span></span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-VIS-4469236?home=&gid=4469236&trk=anet_ug_hm" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> https://goo.gl/5qABWF</span></span></a></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION</span></span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">IEEE VIS 2016 is the premier forum for advances in visualization. The event-packed week brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to explore their shared interests in tools, techniques, and technology. We invite you to participate in IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis), and IEEE Scientific Visualization (SciVis) by sharing your research, insights, experience, and enthusiasm.</span></span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">FULL PAPERS</span></span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">We solicit high quality papers in all areas of visualization including information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics in three tracks. For more information, visit</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">27th IEEE Scientific Visualization Conference (SciVis) CFP: </span></span><a href="http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/scivis-papers" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/scivis-papers</span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">22nd IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis) CFP:</span></span><a href="http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/infovis-papers" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/infovis-papers</span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">11th IEEE Visual Analytics Science & Technology Conference (VAST) CFP:</span></span><a href="http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/vast-papers" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></a><a href="http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/vast-papers" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/vast-papers</span></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br type="_moz" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Important dates:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> Paper abstracts submission (mandatory): March 21, 2016</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> Paper submission: March 31, 2016</span></span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">CO-LOCATED SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS:</span></span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Symposium: </span></span><a href="http://biovis.net/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">http://biovis.net/</span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Large-scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Symposium:</span></span><a href="http://ldav.org/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> <a href="http://ldav.org">http://ldav.org</a></span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec)</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> Symposium:</span></span><a href="http://www.vizsec.org/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> <a href="http://www.vizsec.org/">http://www.vizsec.org/</a></span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Visualization in Data Science (VDS) </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Workshop</span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> </span></span><a href="http://visualdatascience.org" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">http://visualdatascience.org</span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Beyond Time And Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods For Visualization (BELIV) </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Workshop: </span></span><a href="http://beliv.cs.univie.ac.at/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">http://beliv.cs.univie.ac.at/</span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> </p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM</span></span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">We solicit submissions to the doctoral colloquium (DC) for IEEE VIS 2016. The DC is a single-day invitation-only event taking place the day before IEEE VIS where Ph.D. students in any visualization field, preferably those at the proposal defense stage or equivalent, present their proposed dissertation work and receive feedback from leading senior visualization researchers. We invite contributions from the scientific visualization, information visualization, and visual analytics student communities. For more information, visit</span></span><a href="http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/call-participation/doctoral-colloquium" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></a><a href="http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/doctoral-colloquium" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/doctoral-colloquium</span></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Submissions due: May 10, 2016.</span></span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">LOCATION</span></span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The conference will be returning to Baltimore, Maryland. Located on the mid-Atlantic coast, the city is easy to reach and has wonderful attractions as part of the Inner Harbor district near the conference hotel.</span></span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">VIS 2016 GENERAL CHAIR</span></span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Terry Yoo, National Institutes of Health</span></span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">VIS 2016 VICE CHAIR</span></span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Jesus J Caban, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center</span></span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">VIS 2016 PROGRAM CHAIRS</span></span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Gautam Chaudhary, Alcon LenSx Inc.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">James Ahrens, Los Alamos National Laboratory</span></span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">VIS 2016 PAPER CHAIRS</span></span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer IAIS and City University London (VAST)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Shixia Liu, Tsinghua University (VAST)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology (VAST)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research (InfoVis)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis (InfoVis)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Niklas Elmqvist, University of Maryland, College Park (InfoVis)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">James Ahrens, Los Alamos National Laboratory (SciVis)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Mike Kirby, University of Utah (SciVis)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen (SciVis)</span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> Best regards,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> -- Jian (on behalf of VIS publicity)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">-------------------------------------------------------------</span></span><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor</span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">UMBC Innovation Fellow</span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Computer Science and Electrical Engineering</span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">University of Maryland, Baltimore County</span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><span style="font-size: medium;">http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen</span></a></div></div></span></p><BR><hr />Message sent via Atmail Open - http://atmail.org/</HTML>