WORKSHOP: Doctoral Symposium at the Eleventh International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams

这是资助一个博士研讨会（讲习班），约5名来自美国的研究生，沿着有一个杰出的研究教师导师小组。该活动将与2020年8月24日至28日在爱沙尼亚塔林理工大学举行的第十一届图表理论与应用国际会议（DIAGRAMS 2020）一起举行，并将与2020年集合可视化和推理国际研讨会共同举办。 图表是范围广泛的开放式表示形式，包括草图、绘图、图表、图片、2D和3D几何模型以及地图。它们是人类在艺术和科学以及商业和工业等领域交流的重要工具。更好地理解如何生成和使用有效的图表有可能在这些领域产生变革性的进步。DIAGRAMS是唯一一个为图表理论和应用研究的各个方面提供论坛的会议系列。这是一个每两年举行一次的国际跨学科活动，其目标是介绍和讨论（a）关于计算、认知和社会文化理论的最新研究，以及使用图形表示进行推理的模型和技术，以及（B）使用图形表示支持人类推理的尖端智能和交互信息技术。研究主题包括理解人类的图解推理，理解使用图解表示进行通信，开发自动图解推理技术，以及设计使用图解表示的工具。该系列会议由DIAGRAMS指导委员会监督，成员轮流;更多信息可在会议网站www.example.com上获得。 DIAGRAMS 2020将大大增加我们对人类和机器中图解推理的理解，并将为使用图解表示支持人类推理的新信息技术的发展增添动力。会议将通过促进高级和初级研究人员之间的互动以及促进新的合作来帮助开发人力研究资本。博士研讨会将增加年轻研究生研究人员在这些领域的曝光率和知名度，并通过在互动和建设性的环境中提供该领域高级研究人员的早期投入来帮助培训他们。下一代研究人员之间的社交网络，以及与高级研究人员的关系，由研讨会创建，将在他们融入专业文化中发挥关键作用。所选学生的多样性是组织者的目标，他们将积极主动地确保学生和教师在多个方面都是一个多元化的群体，包括国籍，科学学科和性别。为了进一步确保多样性，每个教育机构只会选择一名学生，优先考虑来自代表性不足的人口的学生。DIAGRAMS 2020博士研讨会的主要目标是增加这些领域的年轻研究生研究人员的曝光率和知名度。研讨会将是一个以研究为重点的为期一天的会议，让与会者有机会介绍他们的工作，并从该领域的知名研究人员那里获得反馈，他们将在非正式和建设性的环境中对年轻研究人员的发言发表评论。每个受邀参与者将有大约半小时的时间介绍他们的研究，其中可能包括一个简短的演示，如果合适的话，然后将进行讨论和批评。对于一些学生来说，这可能是他们第一次有机会在家乡机构之外进行研究演讲。 因此，每个学生将被分配一个导师（从程序委员会中选择），谁将预览学生的演示文稿，并提供改进建议，以及提供在讨论过程中可能出现的样本问题。 博士研讨会对所有会议注册者开放，学生演讲的摘要将在会议网站上提供。该奖项反映了NSF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。

This is funding to support a Doctoral Symposium (workshop) for approximately 5 graduate students from the United States, along with a panel of distinguished research faculty mentors. The event will take place in conjunction with (and on the first day of) the Eleventh International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams (DIAGRAMS 2020), to be held August 24-28, 2020, at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, and which will be co-located with the International Workshop on Set Visualization and Reasoning 2020. Diagrams are wide-ranging and open-ended representations that include sketches, drawings, charts, pictures, 2D and 3D geometric models, and maps. They are a vital tool in human communication in areas such as art and science, as well as commerce and industry. A better understanding of how effective diagrams can be generated and used has the potential to produce transformative advances in these areas. DIAGRAMS is the only conference series that provides a forum for all aspects of research on the theory and application of diagrams. It is a bi-annual, international and interdisciplinary event whose goals are to present and discuss (a) state-of-the-art research on computational, cognitive and socio-cultural theories, models and techniques of reasoning with diagrammatic representations, and (b) cutting-edge intelligent and interactive information technologies for using diagrammatic representations in supporting human reasoning. Research topics include understanding diagrammatic reasoning in humans, understanding the use of diagrammatic representation for communication, developing techniques for automated diagrammatic reasoning, and designing tools for use of diagrammatic representations. The conference series is overseen by the DIAGRAMS Steering Committee with a rotating membership; more information is available at the conference website http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2020/. DIAGRAMS 2020 will significantly increase our understanding of diagrammatic reasoning in humans and machines, and will add momentum to the development of new information technologies for the use of diagrammatic representations in support of human reasoning. The conference will help develop human research capital by enabling interactions between senior and junior researchers and by catalyzing new collaborations. The Doctoral Symposium will increase the exposure and visibility of young graduate student researchers in these areas, and help train them by providing early input from senior researchers in the field in an interactive and constructive environment. The social network among this next generation of researchers, and the relationships with senior researchers, created by the workshop will play a critical role in their enculturation into the profession. Diversity of the selected students is a goal of the organizers, who will be proactive to ensure that both students and faculty are a diverse group across multiple dimensions including nationality, scientific discipline and gender. To further assure diversity, only one student will be selected from each educational institution, with preference given to students from underrepresented populations.The primary goal of the DIAGRAMS 2020 Doctoral Symposium is to increase the exposure and visibility of young graduate student researchers in these areas. The workshop will be a research-focused day-long meeting that affords participants an opportunity to present their work and get feedback from established researchers in the field, who will be present to comment on the young researchers' presentations in an informal and constructive environment. Each invited participant will have approximately half an hour for presentation of their research, that may include a short demonstration if appropriate, and which will be followed by discussion and critiquing. For some students, this may be their first opportunity to give a research talk outside their home institutions. Therefore, each student will be assigned a mentor (selected from the Program Committee), who will preview the student's presentation and offer suggestions for improvement as well as provide sample questions that may arise during the discussion. The Doctoral Symposium is open for attendance to all conference registrants, and summaries of the student presentations will be available on the conference website.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.