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Integrated Visualization and Analytics Community

VisWeek 2011 is the premier forum for visualization advances for academia, government, and industry, bringing together researchers and practitioners with a shared interest in tools, techniques, technology and theory. The week is organized around three separate conferences:

• IEEE Visualization 2011. This conference was the original venue for all visualization research, and it remains centered around the exploration and formalization of visualization methodologies for data that has an intrinsic spatial component. 2011 will mark the 22nd anniversary of the conference.
• IEEE Information Visualization 2011. Already in its 17th edition, this conference responds to the need for a specific area of research to investigate cognitively useful visual mappings for datasets that are not inherently spatial, and accompanying the mapping by interaction techniques that allow people to intuitively explore them.
• IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2011. Following on the footsteps of the previous two conferences, VAST was motivated by a call for methodologies to visually combine information from a multiplicity of sources (spatial and non-spatial, real and theoretical) for its effective exploration and analysis in real scenarios, where a serial approach to searching for hidden features or patterns would be impractical. This will be the 6th IEEE VAST conference.

Throughout the week a variety of papers, panels, workshops, tutorials, and posters, will be presented for all three conferences, along with industry exhibitions, interactive demonstrations, a doctoral colloquium, and many impromptu birds-of-a-feather meetings among researchers and experts from the visualization community attending the conference.

In 2011, IEEE VisWeek comes to the beautiful city of Providence, RI, USA, the capital city of the smallest state in the country, but packed with exciting entertainment, shopping and food options. A lively downtown area just steps away from the conference hotel, a multi-cultural mix of many award-winning restaurants in several neighborhoods all in walking distance, a wonderful and elaborate river-walk area for relaxing, and a vibrant art-scene, are all settled among scores of immaculately preserved homes from the Colonial, Federal, Greek Revival and Victorian eras.

VisWeek General Chairs
David Laidlaw, Brown University
Ross Whitaker, University of Utah

VisWeek Conference Chairs
Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA (InfoVis)
David Laidlaw, Brown University (Vis)
William Pike, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (VAST)
Jonathan Roberts, Bangor University (VAST)

Questions? Email: info@vgtc.org