WORKSHOP: Doctoral Colloquium at IEEE VIS 2015

这笔资金用于支持大约18名论文阶段博士生在各种可视化子领域的博士研讨会（研讨会），与6-12名杰出的研究人员进行为期一天的讨论和互动，并与IEEE VIS 2015会议一起举行，该会议包括IEEE科学可视化会议（SciVis）， IEEE信息可视化会议（InfoVis）， IEEE可视化分析科学与技术会议（VAST）。以及网络安全可视化国际研讨会，该研讨会将于10月25日至30日在伊利诺伊州芝加哥举行。可视化，或使用交互式图形来支持数据分析和理解，已经成为许多应用领域不可或缺的一部分和关键组成部分。IEEE VIS是促进科学和信息可视化进步的主要论坛；这个为期一周的活动召集了来自学术界、政府和工业界的研究人员和实践者的国际社区，以探索他们在工具、技术和技术方面的共同兴趣，目前有来自世界各地的1000多名可视化专业人士参加。在各种组成部分的活动中提出的论文被严格审查和广泛引用。更多信息请访问http://www.ieeevis.org。自2006年以来，IEEE VIS的博士讨论会每年举办一次，为介绍和培养该领域的年轻学者提供了一个非常成功的论坛。当今许多领先的可视化研究人员都曾作为学生参加过早期的博士座谈会。该活动将最优秀的下一代可视化研究人员聚集在一起，使他们能够在自己之间以及与资深研究人员建立一个社会网络，这在他们融入这个行业的过程中起着重要作用。由于学生和教师在多个方面（国籍、性别、种族、科学学科、机构和研究专业）都是一个多元化的群体，学生的视野在他们专业发展的关键阶段被拓宽了。组织者强烈承诺实现学生参与者的多样性；为达到此目的，任何一所院校的学生人数不得超过2人，而同一所院校的两名学生只有在其中至少一名是女性的情况下才会被录取。PI进一步确认，国家科学基金会的资金将主要用于支持在美国攻读研究生课程的学生的参与。2015年，研讨会将于10月24日星期六（主要会议的前一天）召开，VIS技术计划期间的后续活动将贯穿整个星期。主要目标是让学生在支持的氛围中与杰出的领导小组和同行讨论他们的研究方向，他们将提供有用的反馈和新鲜的观点。为此，18名学生将被分成3组，每组6人；两名教师小组成员和一名DC联合主席将被分配到每个小组在单独的会议室举行他们的演讲。在小组会议期间，每个学生将被分配大约30-40分钟的时间，包括关于他/她的博士研究的正式报告，然后进行深入的讨论和反馈。所有学生将在专家小组成员中指定一名导师，负责深入阅读学生提交的材料并提供详细的反馈；教师小组的其他成员以及其他学生参与者将提供额外的反馈。鼓励讨论。反馈是为了帮助学生参与者理解和表达他们的工作相对于其他可视化研究是如何定位的，他们的主题是否充分关注论文研究项目，他们的方法是否正确选择和应用，他们的结果是否得到适当的分析和呈现，等等。目标是在学生自己的论文顾问提供的指导之外，对每个学生的博士研究给出第二种意见。现场将为所有参与者（学生和小组成员都一样）提供共同的工作午餐，学生将有额外的机会在更个人的层面上与专家小组成员见面并建立联系。最后，在一天结束时，将有一个圆桌讨论，所有参与者会面并讨论技术研究之外的更高层次的主题。学生的研究成果将在VIS技术项目期间通过海报传播，并通过VIS扩展摘要发表。组织者将提交一份最终报告（包括参与者的反馈），该报告将由VIS执行委员会存档，并提供给未来博士讨论会的组织者。

This is funding to support a Doctoral Colloquium (workshop) of about 18 dissertation stage doctoral students, in a variety of visualization subfields, for a day of discussions and interactions with 6-12 distinguished research faculty, to be held in conjunction with the IEEE VIS 2015 meeting, which is comprised of the IEEE Scientific Visualization Conference (SciVis), the IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis), the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology Conference (VAST), and the International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security, and which will take place during the week of October 25-30, in Chicago, Illinois. Visualization, or the use of interactive graphics to support data analysis and understanding, has become an integral part and critical component of many application areas. IEEE VIS is the premier forum for advances in scientific and information visualization; this weeklong event convenes an international community of researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to explore their shared interests in tools, techniques, and technology, and is now attended by over 1,000 visualization professionals from around the world. The papers presented at the various component events are rigorously refereed and widely cited. More information is available online at http://www.ieeevis.org. The Doctoral Colloquium at IEEE VIS, a research-focused meeting which has taken place annually since 2006, has been highly successful in providing a forum for introducing and grooming young scholars in the field. Many of today's leading visualization researchers have participated in earlier doctoral colloquia as students. The event brings together the best of the next generation of visualization researchers and allows them to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers, which plays a major role in their enculturation into the profession. Since the students and faculty are a diverse group on several dimensions (nationality, gender, ethnicity, scientific discipline, institution, and research specialization), the students' horizons are broadened at a critical stage in their professional development. The organizers strongly commit to achieving diversity among the student participants; to this end, no more than 2 students will be accepted from any one institution, and 2 students from the same institution will only be accepted if at least one of them is a woman. The PI has further affirmed that NSF funds will be used chiefly to support participation by students enrolled in graduate programs in the United States.In 2015 the workshop will convene on Saturday, October 24 (the day before the main conference), with follow-up events throughout the week during the VIS technical program. A primary objective is to allow students to discuss their research directions in a supportive atmosphere with a panel of distinguished leaders and with their peers, who will provide helpful feedback and fresh perspectives. To this end, the 18 students will be split into three groups of 6 students; two faculty panelists and one DC co-chair will be assigned to each group in individual meeting rooms to hold their presentations. Each student will be allotted approximately 30-40 minutes of time during the group sessions, to include a formal presentation about his/her doctoral research followed by in-depth discussions and feedback. All students will be assigned a specific mentor among the expert panelists, who will be responsible for reading the student's submission materials in particular depth and providing detailed feedback; additional feedback will be given by other members of the faculty panel, as well as by fellow student participants. Discussion is encouraged. The feedback is geared to helping student participants understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to other visualization research, whether their topics are adequately focused for thesis research projects, whether their methods are correctly chosen and applied, whether their results are being appropriately analyzed and presented, etc. The goal is to give a second opinion on each student's doctoral research beyond the guidance provided by the student's own dissertation advisor. There will be a common catered working lunch on site for all participants (students and panelists alike) where students get an additional opportunity to meet and network with the expert panelists on a more individual level. Finally, at the end of the day, there will be a roundtable discussion where all participants meet and discuss higher-level topics beyond technical research. Student research will be disseminated via posters during the VIS technical program, and via publication in the VIS Extended Abstracts. The organizers will file a final report (with feedback from participants) which will be archived by the VIS Executive Committee and provided to the organizers of future doctoral colloquia.