[Ieee_vis] IEEE VGTC Chair Election Begins on April 15, 2015: Check your VGTC membership

[Huamin Qu]

Dear all,

 

The Visualization and Computer Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) is
electing its new chair and you are invited to cast your vote. The election
period will begin on April 15, 2015 and will remain open for 15 days until
April 30. The new Chair's term will run from May 1, 2015 through April 30,
2017. 

 

Following a 3-month community-wide solicitation period the VGTC chair
nomination committee composed of the VGTC directors, after careful
deliberation, nominated the following two candidates to serve as the next
VGTC chair:  

 

Mark Livingston (please see bio and statement at
http://vgtc.org/content/vgtc-chair-candidate-mark-livingston)

Claudio Silva (please see bio and statement at
http://vgtc.org/content/vgtc-chair-candidate-cl%C3%A1udio-silva)

 

Please note that in order to vote in the VGTC elections, you must be a
member of the IEEE Computer Society and the VGTC. Since the IEEE has only
this year eliminated its recurrent practice of asking for annual renewal of
VGTC membership, you are strongly encouraged to explicitly check your VGTC
membership to ensure that you are properly enrolled before April 15, when
the election will begin. All enrolled members will receive an email on
specific information on how to vote.

 

To check your membership, please log in at

https://www.ieee.org/profile/membershipandsubscription/showMembershipsAndSub
scriptions.html

and see if you have the following two items listed under Memberships and
marked as active: "IEEE Computer Society Membership" and "Visualization and
Graphics, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on"

 

Note that VGTC membership is completely free for IEEE CS members. The cost
of IEEE CS membership is $56 (or between $8 and $13 if you are a student,
depending on where you live) if you are already an IEEE member, or $125 if
you are not an IEEE member. The cost of IEEE membership ranges from $80 to
$193 for professional members, or from $27 to $37 for students, depending on
where you live.

 

The VGTC sponsors or co-sponsors several major conferences in the field of
Visualization and Computer Graphics -- VIS, VR, ISMAR, 3DUI, Pacific Vis,
EuroVis. You probably have attended one more of these in the past and
hopefully will attend them in the future. The VGTC's mission is to
facilitate a vibrant community for researchers and practitioners in this
field and to encourage new talent to join in. The VGTC recognizes technical
achievements at all levels through a set of annual awards, ranging from
career to technical to dissertation awards. Its community website
http://vgtc.org offers archives of a growing set of conferences, videos of
the talks, and much more. You are very much invited and encouraged to
participate in the discussion forums that have been established for each
paper. 

 

 

Best,

Huamin Qu

Secretary of the VGTC Executive Committee

 

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