Workshop: Doctoral Colloquium at IEEE VisWeek 2012

这笔资金用于支持一次博士座谈会(研讨会)，该研讨会将于2012年10月14-19日在西雅图举行IEEE VisWeek会议，届时将与6位杰出的研究人员进行为期一天的讨论和互动，研讨会涉及多个视觉化子领域的约12名博士研究生。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 VisWeek是学术界、政府和工业界科学和工程可视化进展的主要论坛，现在聚集了来自世界各地的约900名研究人员和从业人员，他们对技术、工具和技术有着共同的兴趣。VisWeek今年包括第23届IEEE科学可视化会议(SciVis)、第18届IEEE信息可视化会议(InfoVis)和第7届IEEE可视化科学与技术研讨会(Vavast)。今年共同举办的研讨会包括IEEE大规模数据分析和可视化研讨会(LDAV)、IEEE生物数据可视化研讨会(BioVis)和网络安全可视化国际研讨会(VisSec)。发表在IEEE可视化和计算机图形学会刊上的论文被严格引用和广泛引用。欲了解更多信息，请访问http://www.visweek.org.。IEEE VisWeek的博士座谈会是一个以研究为重点的会议，自2006年以来每年都在可视化会议上举行，并帮助启动了许多杰出的年轻研究人员的职业生涯。2012年，研讨会将于10月14日(星期日)或10月15日(星期一)召开，并在VisWeek技术计划期间举行后续活动。博士座谈会的一个主要目标是让学生在支持性的氛围中与一群杰出的领导者和他们的同行讨论他们的研究方向，他们将提供有用的反馈和新的观点。讲习班通过连接初级和高级研究人员来支持社区建设，目标之一是建立一个新研究人员群体，然后他们将在世界各地拥有一个同事网络。学生研究将通过VisWeek技术计划期间的海报和VisWeek扩展摘要中的出版物进行传播。关于博士座谈会的反馈将提供给未来的会议委员会。更广泛的影响：VisWeek博士座谈会汇聚了下一代可视化研究人员中的佼佼者，使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文化中发挥了重要作用。由于学生和教职员工在几个维度(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得到了开阔。国际和平协会确认，在管理这一活动时，组织者在努力确定和吸纳最广泛的高素质参与者群体的同时，也将努力鼓励妇女、种族/少数民族和残疾人参加。他们还将确保NSF的资金主要用于支持在美国注册的研究生项目的学生参与。

This is funding to support a Doctoral Colloquium (workshop) of about 12 dissertation stage doctoral students, in a variety of visualization subfields, for a day of discussions and interactions with 6 distinguished research faculty, to be held in conjunction with this year's IEEE VisWeek meeting, which will take place during the week of October 14-19, 2012, in Seattle. 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 VisWeek is the premier forum for visualization advances in science and engineering for academia, government, and industry, now bringing together about 900 researchers and practitioners from around the world with a shared interest in techniques, tools, and technology. VisWeek consists this year of the 23rd annual IEEE Scientific Visualization Conference (SciVis), the 18th annual IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis), and the 7th annual IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology Symposium (VAST). Co-located symposia this year include the IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), the IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis), and the International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VisSec). The papers published in the special conference issue of IEEE Transactions of Visualization and Computer Graphics are rigorously refereed and widely cited. More information is available online at http://www.visweek.org. The Doctoral Colloquium at IEEE VisWeek is a research-focused meeting which has taken place annually at the Visualization conference since 2006, and has helped launch the careers of a number of outstanding young researchers. In 2012 the workshop will convene on Sunday, October 14 or on Monday, October 15, with follow-up events during the VisWeek technical program. A primary goal of the Doctoral 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 workshop supports community building, by connecting beginning and advanced researchers, one of the objectives being 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 technical program, and via publication in the VisWeek Extended Abstracts. Feedback about the Doctoral Colloquium will be provided to future conference committees. Broader Impacts: The VisWeek Doctoral Colloquium 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. The PI has affirmed that in managing this event the organizers, while trying to identify and include the broadest possible group of highly qualified participants, will also make an effort to encourage participation by women, racial/ethnic minorities, and persons with disabilities. They will furthermore ensure that NSF funds are used chiefly to support participation by students enrolled in graduate programs in the United States.