Student Travel Support for the Doctoral Colloquium at IEEE VIS 2018

可视化，或使用交互式图形表示来支持数据分析和理解，已经成为广泛应用领域中不可或缺的一部分。该资助为大约18名美国研究生提供支持，以参加IEEE VIS博士研讨会，该研讨会将于2018年10月21日至26日在德国柏林举行，与IEEE可视化会议（VIS 2018）一起举行（http://ieeevis.org/）。IEEE VIS是为学术界、政府和工业界提供科学和工程可视化进展的主要论坛，汇集了对数据分析技术、工具和技术有共同兴趣的研究人员和实践者。VIS博士研讨会的重点是学生的博士论文研究。学生的选择主要是基于研究的卓越性，而这项研究代表了可视化领域的最新技术。博士研讨会为这些项目提供了一个机会，通过知识交流来塑造和改进这些项目，同时也为学生提供了一个机会，向他们的同行专业人士的关键群体展示和交流他们工作的特点。由于学生和导师是一个多元化的群体（国籍、性别、种族、科学学科和研究专业），学生的视野在其专业发展的关键阶段被拓宽。支持美国学生参与DC VIS 2018对研究人员、从业人员和教育工作者的发展至关重要。IEEE VIS成立于1996年，已成为世界上最大和最重要的科学可视化、信息可视化和可视化分析会议。会议的趋势是吸引来自数十个国家的1000多名与会者参加为期一周的研究报告、教程、讲习班、小组讨论、示范、海报、展览和科学讨论。可视化博士讨论会于2006年发起，并在为当前博士生提供指导机会方面取得了很大成功。学生在博士研讨会上展示他们的博士论文研究，并收到来自可视化社区资深专业人士的反馈。这个活动允许参与者在他们之间以及与资深研究人员之间建立一个专业网络。这个专业网络在他们的专业和教育生涯发展中起着重要作用。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Visualization, or the use of interactive graphic representations to support data analysis and understanding, has become integral to a wide array of application areas. This grant provides support for approximately 18 U.S.-based graduate students to participate in the IEEE VIS Doctoral Colloquium to be held in conjunction with the IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS 2018), October 21- 26, 2018, Berlin, Germany (http://ieeevis.org/). IEEE VIS is the premier forum for visualization advances in science and engineering for academia, government, and industry, bringing together researchers and practitioners with a shared interest in techniques, tools, and technology for data analysis. The focus of the VIS Doctoral Colloquium is the students' doctoral dissertation research. Students are selected chiefly on grounds of research excellence, and this research represents the state-of-the-art in the field of visualization. The Doctoral Colloquium provides an opportunity both for these projects to be shaped and improved through intellectual exchange as well as for the students to present and communicate the character of their work to a key group of their peer professionals. Since the students and mentors are a diverse group (nationality, gender, ethnicity, scientific discipline, and research specialization), the students' horizons are broadened at a critical stage in their professional development. Supporting participation of U.S. students in the DC VIS 2018 is important for the development of researchers, practitioners and educators. IEEE VIS was established in 1996 and has become the worldwide largest and most important conference on Scientific Visualization, Information Visualization and Visual Analytics. The conference trend has been to draw over 1,000 participants from dozens of countries to a week of research presentations, tutorials, workshops, panels, demonstrations, posters, exhibitions and scientific discussions. The Visualization Doctoral Colloquium was initiated in 2006, and has been highly successful in providing mentorship opportunities to current PhD students. Students at the Doctoral Colloquium present their doctoral dissertation research and receive feedback from senior professionals in the visualization community. This event allows the participants to create a professional network both among themselves and with senior researchers. This professional network plays a major role in their professional and educational career development.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.