<div dir="ltr">### Please redistribute as appropriate<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:15pt 0in 7.5pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">EXTENDED <span class="gmail-il">DEADLINE</span>: </span><b><i><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:red">June 30^th 2019</span></i></b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (</span><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(66,139,202)"><a href="http://vgtc.org/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(66,139,202)">VGTC</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">) sponsors the annual Best Doctoral Dissertation Award program</span> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">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 Visualization Pioneers Group (</span><u style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(66,139,202)"><a href="http://vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-visualization-pioneers-group" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(66,139,202)"><span class="gmail-m_6903176380321949148gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">VPG</span></span></span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">) under the auspices of IEEE VGTC. The IEEE VGTC <span class="gmail-m_6903176380321949148gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">VPG</span></span> Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually at the IEEE <span class="gmail-m_6903176380321949148gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">VPG</span></span> Reception held at the </span><u style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(66,139,202)"><a href="http://ieeevis.org/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(66,139,202)">IEEE VIS</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> conference.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:15pt 0in 7.5pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">ELIGIBILITY</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:15pt 0in 7.5pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">All English language dissertations that have been successfully defended between August 15 two years before the award and August 15 of the year of the competition are eligible (e.g. between August 15, 2017 and August 15, 2019 are eligible for the 2019 competition).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:15pt 0in 7.5pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">SUBMISSION LIMITATION</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">There is no limitation on the number of nominations that may be made by a university.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:15pt 0in 7.5pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">SELECTION PROCEDURE</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Five IEEE <span class="gmail-m_6903176380321949148gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">VPG</span></span> members will form a review committee to thoroughly review and assess the dissertation submissions. The committee will judge the dissertations based on their intellectual merit, technical depth, and presentation quality. The selection committee will recommend the winning dissertation to the IEEE VGTC chair by October 1.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:15pt 0in 7.5pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">AWARD</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The winner of the IEEE VGTC <span class="gmail-m_6903176380321949148gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">VPG</span></span> Doctoral Dissertation Award will receive not only a monetary prize </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">of $500 provided by IEEE VGTC</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">, but also a chance to describe the impact of the winning dissertation in an invited article that may be published in </span><span class="gmail-m_6903176380321949148gmail-m_-4001663126256101968gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="font-size:11pt;color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.computer.org/cga" target="_blank" style="color:blue">IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A)</a></span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">. Professor Jim Foley of Georgia Tech and the editor of the CG&A Dissertation Impact Department will make the final determination about whether the article will be published. The CG&A Dissertation Impact Department recognizes the best and brightest dissertation work nominated by different visualization, computer graphics, and virtual reality technical communities from around the world.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Thesis Advisor(s) of the winning entrant will chair the following year’s Dissertation Review Committee, with full support from the <span class="gmail-m_6903176380321949148gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">VPG</span></span> OC to handle details such as publicity and administration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:15pt 0in 7.5pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">SUBMISSION DETAILS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The student’s advisor should email the nomination package to </span><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(66,139,202)"><a href="mailto:vpg_awards@vgtc.org" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(66,139,202)">vpg_awards@vgtc.org</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">. The package must include:</span></p><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">A nomination letter written by the student’s advisor, which includes:</span></li><ul type="circle" style="margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">the name, email address, and phone number of the advisor,</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">the name and email address of the candidate, and</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">a one-page summary of the significance of the dissertation (references to papers should be provided on an extra sheet)</span></li></ul><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">A copy of the dissertation.</span></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Optional additional letters of recommendation can be attached to the submission.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_6903176380321949148gmail-m_-4001663126256101968gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">On behalf of the <span class="gmail-m_6903176380321949148gmail-m_-4001663126256101968gmail-m_8018135326320463275gmail-m_2171767177472143689gmail-il"><span class="gmail-m_6903176380321949148gmail-m_-4001663126256101968gmail-m_8018135326320463275gmail-il"><span class="gmail-m_6903176380321949148gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">VPG</span></span></span></span> operating committee,</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">Dr. L. Miguel Encarnação</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Innovation Management Executive & Consultant</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><font color="#999999">Professor of Practice, Business Analytics & Computer Science<br>Tippie College of Business & </font></span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">College of Liberal Arts and Sciences</span></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><font color="#999999">The University of Iowa</font></span></div></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1" color="#3333ff"><i>"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. (Richard Hamming)"</i></font></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">--</span><br></div></div><div><div><font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