Workshop on the Mathematics of Visual Analysis

可视化分析被定义为通过交互式可视化促进分析推理的科学。可视化分析的目标是能够理解海量数据集。此类数据集出现在科学、工程和商业领域，以及情报分析和应急响应领域。分析大量信息是一项重大的智力挑战，也是国土安全的关键技术。视觉分析的新兴领域是从其他不同领域的许多想法的综合，包括人机交互，科学和信息可视化，统计图形和数学可视化，地理信息系统和制图。本次研讨会的目标是汇集计算机科学家和数学家讨论视觉分析中涉及的数学和计算问题。第二个目标是让数学界参与进来，并将他们引入这个应用领域。

Visual analysis is defined to be the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visualizations. The goal of visual analysis is to enable the understanding of massive datasets. Such datasets arise in science, engineering and commerce, as well as intelligence analysis and emergency response. Analyzing large amounts of information is a major intellectual challenge as well as a key technology for homeland security. Theemerging field of visual analysis is the synthesis of many ideas from otherwise disparate fields including human-computer interaction, scientific and information visualization, statistical graphics and mathematical visualization, and geographic information systems and cartography.The goal of this workshop is to bring together computer scientists and mathematicians to discuss mathematical and computational problems involved in visual analysis. A secondary goal is to engage the mathematical community and introduce them to this application area.