WORKSHOP: Doctoral Colloquium at IEEE VIS 2016

这笔资金用于支持一个博士座谈会(研讨会)，来自美国和海外的约18名博士研究生代表不同的可视化领域，与6-12名杰出的研究人员进行一天的讨论和互动。此次活动将与IEEE VIS 2016会议同时举行，IEEE VIS 2016会议将于10月23-28日在马里兰州巴尔的摩举行，会议包括IEEE科学可视化会议(SciVis)、IEEE信息可视化会议(InfoVis)、IEEE视觉分析科学和技术会议(Vavast)以及网络安全可视化国际研讨会。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组成部分和关键组件。IEEE VIS是科学和信息可视化发展的主要论坛；这一为期一周的活动召集了来自学术界、政府和行业的研究人员和实践者的国际社区，探讨他们在工具、技术和技术方面的共同兴趣，目前有来自世界各地的1200多名可视化专业人员参加。在各种组成活动上提交的论文被严格参考并被广泛引用。欲了解更多信息，请访问http://www.ieeevis.org.。IEEE VIS的博士座谈会是自2006年以来每年举行的一次以研究为重点的会议，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在学生时代参加过早期的博士座谈会。这次活动汇聚了下一代可视化研究人员中的佼佼者，让他们能够在自己之间以及与资深研究人员之间创建一个社交网络，这在他们融入该职业的过程中发挥了重要作用。由于学生和教职员工在多个维度(国籍、性别、种族、科学学科、机构和研究专业)上是一个多样化的群体，学生的视野在他们专业发展的关键阶段被拓宽。组织者坚决致力于实现学生参与者的多样性；为此，任何一所院校的学生人数不得超过2人，同一机构的2名学生只有在其中至少有一名女性的情况下才能被录取。PPI进一步确认，NSF的资金将主要用于支持在美国注册的研究生项目的参与。2016年，研讨会将于10月22日星期六(主要会议的前一天)举行，在VIS技术项目期间，整个星期都会有后续活动。主要目标是让学生在支持性的氛围中与杰出的领导者小组和他们的同龄人讨论他们的研究方向，他们将提供有用的反馈和新的观点。为此，18名学生将被分成三组，每组6名学生；两名教员小组成员和一名区议会联席主席将被分配到每组在个别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，然后是深入的讨论和反馈。所有学生都将被指派一名专家小组成员中的特定导师，负责阅读学生提交的材料，特别是深度和提供详细的反馈；其他教师小组成员以及其他学生参与者将提供额外的反馈。鼓励进行讨论。这些反馈旨在帮助学生参与者理解和清楚地说明他们的工作相对于其他可视化研究的定位，他们的主题是否足够集中于论文研究项目，他们的方法是否被正确地选择和应用，他们的结果是否得到了适当的分析和展示，等等。目的是在学生自己的论文导师提供的指导之外，对每个学生的博士研究提出第二意见。现场将为所有参与者(学生和小组成员)提供通用的工作午餐，学生们将有更多机会在更个人化的层面上与专家小组成员见面和建立联系。最后，在一天结束时，将举行圆桌讨论，所有与会者将在会上会面，讨论技术研究以外的更高层次的主题。学生研究将在VIS技术计划期间通过海报传播，并通过VIS扩展摘要中的出版物进行传播。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，并提供给未来博士座谈会的组织者。

This is funding to support a Doctoral Colloquium (workshop) of about 18 dissertation stage doctoral students from both the U.S. and abroad and who represent a variety of visualization subfields, for a day of discussions and interactions with 6-12 distinguished research faculty. The event will be held in conjunction with the IEEE VIS 2016 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 23-28 in Baltimore, MD. 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 1,200 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 2016 the workshop will convene on Saturday, October 22 (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.