VisWeek 2009 Doctoral Colloquium

这笔资金将用于支持由有前途的博士生和杰出研究人员组成的博士讨论会（研讨会），该研讨会将与今年的IEEE VisWeek会议同时举行，该会议将于2009年10月11日至16日在新泽西州大西洋城举行。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。VisWeek由三个主要活动组成：IEEE可视化（Vis）、IEEE信息可视化（InfoVis）和IEEE可视化分析科学与技术研讨会（VAST）。IEEE Vis是VisWeek三个会场中历史最悠久的，今年将迎来20周年纪念。它的传统重点是科学和医学可视化的广泛主题。InfoVis的核心是通过利用人类感知系统能力的交互式软件帮助人们探索或解释抽象数据，关注非固有空间的抽象数据集的认知上有用的空间映射，并伴随着映射的交互技术，使人们能够直观地探索数据。VAST是最年轻的活动，成立于2006年，旨在解决人们对高度交互式视觉界面支持的分析推理科学日益增长的兴趣；它的重点是可视化分析工具和技术，将信息合成为知识，从大量的、动态的、经常相互冲突的数据中获得洞察力；发现预期的，发现意外的，提供及时的，可辩护的，可理解的评估，并有效地沟通评估以采取行动。IEEE VisWeek是面向学术界、政府和工业界的科学和工程领域可视化进展的主要论坛，汇集了来自世界各地的约800名研究人员和实践者，他们对技术、工具和技术有着共同的兴趣。发表在《IEEE可视化与计算机图形学汇刊》特别会议上的论文被严格审阅并被广泛引用。IEEE可视化周2009的博士讨论会将汇集来自美国和国外的可视化领域的大约12名论文阶段博士生，他们将于10月10日星期六聚集在一起，与6名教师研究人员进行为期一天的讨论和互动，会议期间将举行后续活动。S技术方案。研讨会的一个主要目标是让学生在一个支持的氛围中与杰出的领导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。研讨会还支持社区建设，通过将初级和高级研究人员联系起来，建立一个由新研究人员组成的队列，这些新研究人员随后将拥有一个由世界各地的同事组成的网络。学生的研究成果将在VisWeek 2009技术项目期间通过海报和在VisWeek 2009扩展摘要中发表的扩展摘要进行传播。关于博士讨论会的反馈将提供给未来的会议委员会。PI已经确认，在管理这一活动时，他和他的同事们将明确地确定并包括尽可能广泛的高素质参与者群体，他们将确保国家科学基金会的资金主要用于支持在美国注册研究生项目的学生的参与。更广泛的影响：自2006年以来，VisWeek博士讨论会每年在可视化会议上举行，并帮助许多杰出的年轻可视化研究人员开展了职业生涯。它汇集了最优秀的下一代可视化研究人员，并允许他们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维度（国籍、科学学科、研究专业）上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。

This is funding to support a Doctoral Colloquium (workshop) of promising doctoral students and distinguished research faculty, to be held in conjunction with this year's IEEE VisWeek Conference, which will take place October 11-16, 2009, in Atlantic City, NJ. 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. VisWeek consists of three main events: IEEE Visualization (Vis), IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis), and the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology Symposium (VAST). IEEE Vis is the oldest of the three venues of VisWeek, and will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year. Its traditional focus has been on a wide range of topics in scientific and medical visualization. InfoVis centers around helping people explore or explain abstract data through interactive software that exploits the capabilities of the human perceptual system, focusing on cognitively useful spatial mappings of abstract datasets that are not inherently spatial, and accompanying the mappings with interaction techniques that allow people to intuitively explore the data. VAST, the youngest event, was founded in 2006 to address the growing interest in the science of analytical reasoning supported by highly interactive visual interfaces; its focus is on visual analytics tools and techniques to synthesize information into knowledge, derive insight from massive, dynamic, and often conflicting data; detect the expected and discover the unexpected, provide timely, defensible, and understandable assessments, and communicate assessments effectively for action. IEEE VisWeek is the premier forum for visualization advances in science and engineering for academia, government, and industry, bringing together about 800 researchers and practitioners from around the world with a shared interest in techniques, tools, and technology. The papers published in the special conference issue of IEEE Transactions of Visualization and Computer Graphics are rigorously refereed and widely cited.The Doctoral Colloquium at IEEE VisWeek 2009 will bring together approximately 12 dissertation stage doctoral students in the field of visualization, from the United States and abroad, who will come together on Saturday, October 10, for a day of discussions and interaction with 6 faculty researchers, with follow-up events that will take place during the conference?s technical program. A primary goal of the colloquium 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. The colloquium also supports community building, by connecting beginning and advanced researchers so as to build a cohort group of new researchers who will then have a network of colleagues across the world. Student research will be disseminated via posters during the VisWeek 2009 technical program, and via extended abstracts published in the VisWeek 2009 Extended Abstracts. Feedback about the Doctoral Colloquium will be provided to future conference committees. The PI has affirmed that in managing this event he and his colleagues will try explicitly to identify and include the broadest possible group of highly qualified participants, and that they will ensure that NSF funds are used chiefly to support participation by students enrolled in graduate programs in the United States.Broader Impacts: The VisWeek Doctoral Colloquium has taken place annually at the Visualization conference since 2006, and has helped launch the careers of a number of outstanding young Vis researchers. It 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, scientific discipline, research specialization), the students' horizons are broadened at a critical stage in their professional development.