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

[Huamin Qu]

(Resending updated message including the link to the main elections page and
direct links for information about how to join the VGTC)

 

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.

 

The main elections page at

http://vgtc.org/content/vgtc-2015-chair-elections will link to the voting
once the elections open, and contains all of the information below.

 

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.

 

You can join IEEE here:
http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/join

You can join IEEE CS here:

https://www.ieee.org/membership-catalog/productdetail/showProductDetailPage.
html?product=MEMC016

You can join the VGTC for free here:

https://www.ieee.org/membership-catalog/productdetail/showProductDetailPage.
html?product=CMYVG731

 

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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