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Welcome to IEEE Visualization 2006, the 17th International About Baltimore...... 2 conference on visualization innovations and their applications! Map of Hotel...... 3 You have an exciting selection of technical forums at the IEEE Visualization conference, the symposium on Information Birds-of-a-Feather Board...... 3 Visualization, and the newly established symposium on Visual Vis 2006 Conference At-A-Glance...... 4, 5 Analytics Science and Technology (VAST). Committee Members...... 6, 7 This year we reflect upon our rich 17 year history and look for- VIs 2006 Tutorials and Workshops...... 8, 9, 11, 14 ward to issues of relevance in the future. The visualization field has become a recognized technology impacting all avenues Vis 2006 Conference Program...... 8-17 of life. Our invited speakers offer perspectives to guide your Vis Keynote...... 12 research, applications, and commercial opportunities. Vis Capstone...... 17 This year the technical community offers workshops and InfoVis Symposium Program...... 8, 10-12 tutorials for dedicated learning. The papers provide an integrated selection of outstanding research contributions and InfoVis Keynote...... 8 creative application papers. The panels discuss some of the VAST Symposium Program...... 12-14, 16 most pressing current topics. The posters allow for very current results to be presented in informal interactive sessions. The VAST Keynote...... 12 Visualization Contest fosters comparison of novel and estab- VIS/VAST PhD Colloquium...... 16 lished techniques and provides benchmarks for the community. Visualization Posters...... 18, 19 The Scientific Animation Theater premieres this year with an exciting collection of film clips highlighting the best in scien- InfoVis Posters...... 18 tific visualization. These venues, combined with our exhibitors, Interactive Demonstration Lab ...... 19 Interactive Demonstrations Laboratory, and Birds-of-a-Feather InfoVis, VAST, Vis Contest Results...... 19 sessions deliver a powerful Visualization 2006 experience in the heart of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor district. Vis 2007 Call for Participation ...... 10 Two receptions and numerous breaks have been scheduled Supporters and Exhibitors...... 20 throughout this week to allow time for you to interact with peers and colleagues. This is the place where government, How to Order Proceedings academic, industrial, and venture communities come together to meet and learn from each other and have fun! Additional copies of the Vis 2006 and InfoVis 2006 proceedings can be ordered from: Thank you for coming, and enjoy the conference! IEEE Computer Society Amitabh Varshney, University of Maryland By mail: 10662 Los Vaqueros Circle, Los Alamitos, CA 90720 Baoquan Chen, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities By phone: +1-800-CS-BOOKS, +1-714-821-8380 (direct) IEEE Visualization 2006 Conference Chairs By fax: +1-714-821-4641 By email: [email protected] By web: http://computer.org/cspress ABOUT BALTIMORE TVCG from the IEEE CS: IEEE Catalog Number: DVCG06 Visualization 2006 is located in the heart of Baltimore’s Inner Additional copies of the VAST 2006 proceedings can be ordered Harbor district, one of the oldest seaports in the United States from: tracing its beginnings to the 1700s. Over the last decade it has IEEE Service Center experienced a resurgence as the cultural center of the City. By mail: Some attractions in the immediate vicinity of the conference 445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 hotel include the National Aquarium in Baltimore, the Mary- By phone: +1-800-678-IEEE, +1-732-981-0060 (direct) land Science Center, the Fort McHenry National Monument, By fax: +1-732-981-9667 and the Baltimore Maritime Museum. An extensive array of By email: [email protected] shopping and dining options are available at the Harborplace By web: http://shop.ieee.org and the Power Plant. The Harborplace includes two glass VAST 2006: IEEE Catalog Number: 06EX1507 enclosed pavilions with 30 informal eateries and over a dozen restaurants, accessible via a direct skyway from the hotel. IEEE Computer Society Other points of interest in Baltimore include Port Discovery, To become a member visit http://computer.org/join the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee Museum, and the Baltimore Civil War Museum. For information on awards, national initiatives, conferences For further details about the rich and vibrant history and hap- and symposia, and a comprehensive membership directory, penings in Baltimore visit www.baltimore.org and refer to the please visit http://tab.computer.org/vgtc. comprehensive guide of attractions. 2 Map of the Hyatt Regency Baltimore

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1 Conference Registration 6 Scientific Animation Theater Located in the Foyer Located in Frederick and Columbia of the Maryland Suite Sunday-Thursday 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Friday 7:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday 7:30 a.m. – 7 p.m. Friday 7:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. 2 Internet Access Located in Frederick and Columbia of the Maryland Suite 7 Exhibition Sunday 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. Located in Baltimore & Annapolis of the Maryland Suite Monday-Thursday 7:30 a.m. – 7 p.m. Tuesday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Friday 7:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Wednesday 10 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Thursday 10 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. 3 Speaker Preparation Located in the Charles Room 8 InfoVis Art Show Sunday-Thursday 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Located in the Foyer Friday 7:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Sunday-Tuesday 8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. 4 Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Board 9 InfoVis Posters Check the board for times and locations. Located in the Harborview Room All conference attendees are welcome. Sunday 8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. Monday 8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m , 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. 5 Interactive Demonstrations Lab Tuesday 8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. Located in Frederick and Columbia of the Maryland Suite Monday 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. 10 Vis Posters Tuesday-Thursday, 3 p.m.-4 p.m. Located in the Harborview Room Wednesday 8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m., 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Thursday-Friday 8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. 3 InfoVis 2006 AND VAST 2006 Symposia SUNDAY MonDAY TUESDAY 8:00

8:30 Blrm A Blrm C/D INFOVIS Blrm A INFOVIS Tutorial 3: Workshop Blrm B Tutorial 6: Blrm B (8:30am- 2: Geographic (8:30am- Overviews 9:00 Blrm A 5:30pm) (8:30am- Visualiza- 5:30pm) and Detail Harborview Harborview Tutorial 1: Harborview Illustrative 12:15pm) tion Texture (9:00am- Visual- Federal and 9:30 6:00pm) ization for Funding Feature- Visual Medicine 101 Based Flow Frederick/Columbia Medicine: 10:00 INFOVIS and Visualiza- Techniques, Blrm B Science Blrm C/D tion Constellations Hallway Foyer Hallway Constellations Constellations Hallway Foyer Hallway Constellations Applica- Foyer Hallway Constellations Workshop Introduc- break break 10:30 tions and tion, Blrm E/F 3: Blrm E/F Software Keynote, & Tutorial 4: (1:30pm- Blrm B Tutorial 7: Blrm B Papers Fast (8:30am- 5:15pm) Network (8:30am- Graph 11:00 Blrm E/F Forward 12:15pm) Grid-based 12:15pm) Tutorial 2: Visualiza- Drawing Level Set Visual- tion Color in Baltimore/Annapolis (1:30pm- Information 11:30 Methods ization 5:15pm) for Visual- Display Remote/ ization Collab- 12:00 orative Blrm E/F Blrm B TeraScale Tutorial 5: InfoVis 12:30 Visual- (1:30pm- lunch lunch Open ization 5:15pm) break break Meeting on the Experimen- 1:00 TeraGrid tal Design and lunch break 1:30 Blrm C/D Blrm B Analysis for Blrm B Blrm B VAST InfoVis Posters Posters InfoVis InfoVis Posters Posters InfoVis InfoVis Posters Posters InfoVis InfoVis Art Show InfoVis InfoVis Art Show InfoVis Workshop Graph Art Show InfoVis Human- Tree and InfoVis Blrm B 1: Exploration Subject Vis. Treemap Demo Lab Interactive Capstone InfoVis 2:00 (1:30pm- Experi- Applica- Capstone VAST 5:15pm) ments tions Keynote VAST Visual- Keynote 2:30 ization Education Art Exhibit Preview Exhibits 3:00 for Non- Technical Majors break break break 3:30 Blrm B Blrm B Blrm B Data InfoVis Spatial and 4:00 Perception Posters Temporal Preview Data and Contest 4:30 Review

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Blrm A/B Blrm F Blrm A Blrm B Blrm E VAST Blrm A Blrm B Blrm E/F 8:30 Tutorial Visual- User Vis in Blrm C/D Panel: Large Isosur- Keynote: 8: ization Interfaces Physical PhD Col- Is there Data Set faces Failures of Visual Awareness (8:30am- Systems Sciences, loquium Science Visual- and 9:00 Daniel Simons Harborview 5:30pm) Life Harborview (see in Visual- ization Polygonal Harborview University of Illinois at Modern Sciences p.16 for ization? Meshes Parallel and En- details) II 9:30 Frederick/Columbia Frederick/Columbia

Urbana-Champaign Frederick/Columbia Coordi- gineer- nates: ing I 10:00 Relational Informa- break break break break tion 10:30 Blrm A/B VAST Blrm A Blrm B Blrm E Blrm C/D Blrm A Blrm B Blrm E/F Blrm C/D Panel: Illustra- Video Panel: Volume Vector/ Volume 11:00 Papers Preview Contest Visual- tive Systems Visual render- Tensor Model- Baltimore/Annapolis Results ization Visualiza- & Time- Baltimore/Annapolis Analytics ing of Visual- ing and extreme- Careers tion II Varying Educa- ization II Render- ly large 11:30 Data tion datasets ing 12:00 Blrm A Vis Open Meeting lunch lunch 12:30 lunch break lunch break break break 1:00 lunch break Exhibits Vis Posters Vis Posters Vis

Blrm A Blrm B Blrm E/F Blrm C/D Blrm A Blrm B Blrm E Posters Vis Blrm C/D Blrm C/D/E/F 1:30 Visual- Informa- Best Complex PhD Col- Percep- Viz in Evalua- Capstone: ization in tion and Posters Demo Lab Interactive Infor- loquium tion Physical Demo Lab Interactive tion and Designing Visualizations to Demo Lab Interactive Medicine Multi- Presen- mation Paper Sciences, Collab- Enable Molecular Insights 2:00 tations Variate Spaces Sessions Life Sci- orative Jane Richardson Visual- (see ences & Aspects Duke University ization p.16 for Engi- 2:30 Closing Remarks details) neering II Best Of Awards 3:00 break

break Exhibits break break 3:30 Blrm A Blrm B Blrm E/F Blrm C/D Blrm A Blrm B Blrm E Blrm C/D Panel: Illustra- Flow Graph Panel: Vector/ Isosur- Multi- The Vis/ tive Visual- and Publish- Tensor faces & dimen- 4:00 InfoVis Visual- ization Network ing Your Visual- Polygonal sional schism ization I Data Research ization I Meshes I Multi- variate 4:30 Data Blrm E/F 5:00 Posters Closing Preview/ remarks Contest 5:30 Results 6:00

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VIS 2006 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Visualization Contest Chairs Hans-Christian Hege, Zuse Institute Berlin David Kao, NASA Ames Research Center Conference Chairs Russell Taylor II, University of North Carolina Gordon Kindlmann, Harvard Medical School Amitabh Varshney, University of Maryland T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Mississippi State University James Klosowski, IBM T.J. Watson Research Baoquan Chen, University of Minnesota at IEEE InfoVis Symposium Liaison Center Twin Cities Matt Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Martin Kraus, University of Stuttgart Program Chairs IEEE VAST Symposium Liaison Ming Lin, University of North Carolina Rachael Brady, Duke University Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest Suresh Lodha, University of California, Ken Joy, University of California, Davis National Lab Santa Cruz Papers Chairs IEEE Liaison David Luebke, University of Virginia Alex Pang, University of California, Ramani Duraiswami, University of Maryland Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis Santa Cruz Graphic Design Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University Eduard Gröller, Vienna University of Melissa Kingman, Elevation Design Michael Meissner, Vital Images Technology Twig Gallemore, Elevation Design Patrick Moran, NASA Ames Research Center Cláudio Silva, University of Utah Conference Web Master Kenneth Moreland, Sandia National Labs Panels Chairs Steve Lamont, University of California, Klaus Mueller, Stony Brook University Michael Meissner, Vital Images San Diego Ken Museth, Linköping Institute of Lisa Avila, Kitware Technology Steering Committee Jinah Park, Information and Renato Pajarola, University of Zürich Tom Ertl, University of Stuttgart Communications University Valerio Pascucci, Lawrence Livermore Arie Kaufman, Stony Brook University National Laboratory Posters Chairs Robert Moorhead, Mississippi State Ronald Peikert, ETH Zürich Gordon Kindlmann, Harvard Medical School University Bernhard Preim, University Magdeburg Daniel Weiskopf, Simon Fraser University Greg Nielson, Arizona State University Hong Qin, State University of New York Workshops Chairs Hanspeter Pfister,Mitsubishi Electric William Ribarsky, UNC Charlotte Jihad El-Sana, Ben Gurion University of Research Lab Jos Roerdink, University Groningen The Negev Bill Ribarsky, University of North Carolina Holly Rushmeier, Yale University Gerik Scheuermann, Universität Leipzig Program Committee Gerik Scheuermann, Universität Leipzig Terry Yoo, National Institutes of Health Maneesh Agrawala, University of California, Roberto Scopigno, ISTI - CNR Tutorials Chairs Berkeley Han-Wei Shen, The Ohio State University Dirk Bartz, University of Tübingen James Ahrens, Los Alamos National Deborah Silver, Rutgers Klaus Mueller, Stony Brook University Laboratory Milos Sramek, Austrian Academy of Sciences Susan Havre, Pacific Northwest National Lab Marc Alexa, TU Berlin Shigeo Takahashi, University of Tokyo Interactive Demos Chairs Martin Bertram, TU Kaiserslautern Alexandru Telea, Eindhoven University of Rhonda Vickery, Mississippi State University Wes Bethel, Lawrence Berkeley National Technology Alex Aceves, Washington State University Laboratory Matthias Teschner, University of Freiburg Jörg Meyer, University of California Rachael Brady, Duke University Holger Theisel, Max Planck Institute David Breen, Drexel University Saarbrücken Exhibition Chairs Min Chen, University of Wales Swansea, UK Xavier Tricoche, University of Utah Ramani Duraiswami, University of Maryland Paolo Cignoni, I.S.T.I. - C.N.R Anna Vilanova, Eindhoven University of Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University Jonathan Cohen, Lawrence Livermore Technology Birds of a Feather Chair National Laboratory Daniel Weiskopf, Simon Fraser University Jian Huang, University of Tennessee João Comba, Universidade Federal do Rio Rüdiger Westermann, Technical University Publications Chairs Grande do Sul Munich Torsten Möller, Simon Fraser University Wagner Correa, IBM T.J. Watson Research Terry Yoo, National Institutes of Health Chris North, Virginia Tech Center Leonid Zhukov, Yahoo! Research Labs Wim de Leeuw, CWI Student Volunteer Chairs David Ebert, Purdue University INFOVIS 2006 SYMPOSIUM Udeepta Bordoloi, Siemens Medical Jihad El-Sana, Ben Gurion University of Guo-Shi Li, University of Utah The Negev COMMITTEE Ming Jiang, Lawrence Livermore Sarah Frisken, Tufts University General Symposium Chair National Lab Issei Fujishiro, Tohoku University Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest Finance Chair Kelly Gaither, Texas Advanced Computing National Laboratory Loretta Auvil, National Center for Super- Center Program Chair and Vis06 Liaison computing Applications Michael Garland, University of Illinois Matt Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Markus Gross, ETH Zürich Publicity Chairs Papers Chairs Baining Guo, Microsoft Research Asia Lisa Avila, Kitware John Stasko, Georgia Tech Peter Hastreiter, Erlangen University Elke Moritz, Mercury Computer Systems Jarke van Wijk, Eindhoven University of Helwig Hauser, VRVis Research Center Dirk Bartz, University of Tübingen Technology Christopher Healey, North Carolina State University

6 Interactive Posters and Videos Chairs Ben Watson, North Carolina State University Publicity Chair Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary Martin Wattenberg, IBM Cambridge David Ebert, Purdue University Ed Chi, PARC Chris Weaver, Pennsylvania State University IEEE CS Liaison Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis Leland Wilkinson, SPSS Ramani Duraiswami, University of Maryland Contest Chairs William Wright, Oculus Info Inc. Contingency Planning Chair Marjan Trutschl, Louisiana State University Jing Yang, University of North Carolina Penny Rheingans, University of Maryland, Urska Cvek, Louisiana State University Charlotte Baltimore County Martin Wattenberg, IBM Research Michelle Zhou, IBM T. J. Watson Finances Chair Art Exhibit Chairs Steering Committee Loretta Auvil, National Center for Super- Fernanda Viégas, IBM Research Stuart Card, PARC computing Applications John Dill, Simon Fraser University Martin Wattenberg, IBM Research Publications Chairs Andrew Vande Moere, University of Sydney Steve Eick, SSS Research, Inc. and University of Illinois at Chicago Torsten Möller, Simon Fraser University Publications Chairs Nahum Gershon, MITRE Corp. Wanda Mar, Pacific Northwest National Torsten Möller, Simon Fraser University Laboratory Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz Chris North, Virginia Tech George Robertson, Microsoft Research Webmaster Publicity Chair John Stasko, Georgia Tech Steve Lamont, University of California, Fernanda Viégas, IBM Research San Diego Webmaster VAST 2006 SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE AREA CHAIRS: Steve Lamont, University of California, Information Analytics Symposium and Papers Chairs San Diego Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest Best Paper Chairs National Laboratory Scientific Analytics Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz Bill Ribarsky, University of North Carolina, Tamara Munzner, University of British Charlotte Columbia Symposium Advisor Jim Thomas, Pacific Northwest National Interaction Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest Jim Foley, Georgia Institute of Technology National Laboratory Laboratory Cognitive and Perceptual Science Program Committee Contest Chairs Brian Fisher, Simon Fraser University Ravin Balakrishnan, University of Toronto Georges Grinstein, University of Stuart Card, PARC Massachusetts Lowell Data Management and Knowledge Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary Sharon Laskowski, National Bureau of Representation Standards and Technology Chaomei Chen, Drexel University Nick Koudas, University of Toronto Theresa O’Connell, National Bureau of Ed Chi, PARC Knowledge Discovery Standards and Technology Jason Dykes, City University London Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland Steve Eick, SSS Research, Inc. and University Jean Scholtz, Pacific Northwest National Statistical Analytics Graphics of Illinois at Chicago Laboratory Leland Wilkinson, SPSS Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA Mark Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Geospatial Analytics Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University Laboratory Don Jones, National Geospatial-Intelligence Helwig Hauser, VRVis Research Center Agency Christopher Healey, North Carolina State Doctoral Colloquium Chairs University Richard May, Pacific Northwest National Presentation, Production, and Dissimilation Beth Hetzler, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Nancy Chinchor, US Government Laboratory Bill Pike, Pacific Northwest National Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz Laboratory Alfred Kobsa, University of California Irvine Yehuda Koren, AT&T Research Robert Kosara, University of North Carolina Charlotte Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis Guy Melancon, LIRMM Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia Chris North, Virginia Tech Stephen North, AT&T Research Penny Rheingans, University of Maryland Baltimore County Jonathan Roberts, University of Kent George Robertson, Microsoft Research Melanie Tory, University of British Columbia Frank van Ham, IBM Cambridge Fernanda Viégas, IBM Cambridge Matt Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

7 InfoVis 2006 AND VAST 2006 SymposiA VIS 2006 Conference Program

SUNDAY, October 29 INFOVIS Symposium

9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Blrm A Harborview Tutorial 1: Visual Medicine: Techniques, Applications and InfoVis Posters Software 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Organizer: Steffen Oeltze, University of Magdeburg Constellations Hallway Foyer Additional Speakers: Gordon Kindlmann, Brigham and InfoVis Art Show Women’s Hospital, Florian Link, MeVis, Klaus Mueller, Stony Brook University, Bernhard Preim, University of Magdeburg, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Markus Wacker, University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Dirk Blrm B Bartz, University of Tübingen Keynote/Papers Fast Forward In this tutorial, we will first give an introduction into medical Chair: John Stasko, Georgia Tech, Jarke van imaging methods - such as data acquisition, data analysis, Wijk, Eindhoven University of Technology segmentation, registration and rendering - both in 2D and 3D. Algorithmics for Network Visualization Based on this foundation, the course will further explore a Peter Eades, University of Sydney variety of advanced topics of visual medicine. In particular, we Good Information Visualization is a multi- will discuss visualization of vascular structures, visual analysis disciplinary effort, with support from a wide of perfusion data, diffusion tensor imaging, OR-fit mixed real- variety of research areas. These include perceptual psychol- ity methods for surgery, and soft-tissue simulation - some of ogy, graphic art, computer graphics, and information re- the most actively researched fields in visual medicine. trieval. In particular, some of the contributions to Information 1:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Visualization have come from classical algorithmics. Further, Blrm E/F Information Visualization inspires scientific questions in al- Tutorial 2: Remote/Collaborative TeraScale Visualization on gorithmics. In this talk we examine the connections between the TeraGrid algorithmics and Information Visualization. Organizer: Kelly Gaither, The University of Texas at Austin Peter Eades is Professor of Software Technology, University of Additional Speakers: Michael E. Papka, University of Chicago Sydney, and holds a position at National ICT Australia (NICTA). /Argonne National Laboratory, David Ebert, Purdue University LUNCH BREAK 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. This tutorial will provide an overview of remote and col- 1:30 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. laborative visualization tools in the context of the National Blrm B Science Foundation TeraGrid project. The TeraGrid is an open Graph Exploration scientific discovery infrastructure combining leadership-class Chair: George Robertson, Microsoft Research resources at partner sites to create an integrated, persistent computational resource. We will provide an overview of the ASK-GraphView: A Large Scale Graph Visualization System, visualization hardware resources available on the TeraGrid, James Abello, Frank van Ham, Neeraj Krishnan describe the visualization services that are currently available MatrixExplorer: a Dual-Representation System to Explore from each of the TeraGrid resource partners, and present our Social Networks, Nathalie Henry, Jean-Daniel Fekete vision for a more integrated TeraGrid visualization environment moving forward. Visual Analysis of Multivariate State Transition Graphs, A. Johannes Pretorius, Jarke J. van Wijk 1:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Balancing Systematic and Flexible Exploration of Networks, Blrm C/D Adam Perer, Ben Shneiderman Workshop 1: Visualization Education for Non-Technical Majors BREAK 3:10 p.m. – 3:40 p.m. Organizer: Holly Rushmeier, Yale University 3:40 p.m. – 4:55 p.m. Visualization is used in essentially every discipline, ranging from biology to history. People use visualizations of data to Blrm B make both personal and professional decisions. A student Data Perception with a general education should be able to judge the valid- Chair: Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University ity of a visual representation and should be able to produce Multi-Scale Banking to 45 Degrees, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh meaningful visual representations of data and concepts. This Agrawala workshop will examine the need for visualization education Measuring Data Abstraction Quality in Multiresolution Visu- for students who major in disciplines outside of science and alization, Qingguang Cui, Matthew Ward, Elke Rundensteiner, engineering. The questions to be answered are, “What should Jing Yang non-technical students know about visualization?” and “Are new visualization courses or resources needed for students in Enabling Automatic Clutter Reduction in Parallel Coordinate non-technical majors?” Plots, Geoffrey Ellis, Alan Dix

8 plish this. A number of level set visualization applications MONDAY, October 30 will be discussed including volume dataset segmentation, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. 3D morphing, and surface reconstruction from contours and Blrm A point clouds. Tutorial 3: Illustrative Visualization for Medicine and Science 1:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Organizers: David S. Ebert, Purdue University, Mario Costa Blrm E/F Sousa, University of Calgary, Stefan Bruckner, Vienna Univer- Tutorial 5: Experimental Design and Analysis for Human- sity of Technology, Ivan Viola, Vienna University of Technology Subject Visualization Experiments Additional Speakers: Don Stredney, Ohio Supercomputer Cen- Organizer: J. Edward Swan II, Mississippi State University ter, Bill Andrews, Medical College of Georgia, Nikolai Svakhine, Purdue University, Christian Tietjen, University of Magdeburg, The proposed tutorial is for researchers and engineers, work- Bruce Gooch, Northwestern University ing in the field of visualization, who wish to either conduct visualization evaluation experiments with human subjects, This tutorial presents recent research and developments from and/or gain a better understanding of the basic terminol- academia in illustrative visualization focusing on its use for ogy of experimental design and analysis. To illustrate the medical/science subjects. The presentation of the topics is discussed principles and techniques, the tutorial includes il- balanced between descriptions of traditional methods and lustrative case studies of actual human-subject experiments. practices, practical implementation motivated approaches This tutorial introduces the basics of experimental design and evaluation, and detailed descriptions and analysis of and analysis, and focuses on the fundamental logic behind illustrative techniques and algorithms. The tutorial includes a topics such as hypothesis testing and analysis of variance, trained medical illustrator discussing the principles/caveats/ while avoiding the complexities that come from considering issues in using illustration techniques in real-world medical individual statistical tests. Topics include: generating empiri- applications. This lecture will also describe an evaluation, cally testable hypotheses, experimental validity, standard from an illustrator’s point of view, of the use and quality of statistical designs, independent and dependent variables, the techniques presented throughout the day. experimental design and counterbalancing, statistical tests, gathering and describing data, inferential statistics, hypoth- 8:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. esis testing, power and effect size analysis, analysis of vari- Blrm C/D ance (ANOVA), and reporting statistical results. Workshop 2: Federal Funding 101 Organizer: Terry Yoo, National Library of Medicine, NIH 1:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Blrm C/D Do you have questions about how Federal agencies make awards? What is the procedure for reviewing grant proposals Workshop 3: Grid-based Visualization at NSF? How does it differ at NIH? What about other Fed- Organizers: Ken Brodlie, University of Leeds, Juliana Freire, eral agencies Where can you find information about federal University of Utah, Cláudio Silva, University of Utah programs? This seminar is an overview and introduction to Grid computing and service-oriented architectures have be- Federal programs and the agencies that sponsor them. The come important influences in computing, and should affect purpose of this workshop is to both inform attendees of our future thinking on how to develop the next-generation the granting process as well as promote feedback from the visualization systems. The workshop will examine a number Visualization community to government representatives. The of key issues such as: how to develop visualization web ser- workshop agenda includes a session where attendees can in- vices; can we achieve autonomic visualization services; what teract in one-on-one sessions with the government panelists. kind of provenance should be maintained; what can visualization learn from related areas such as workflow, databases, 8:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Grid computing - and what can visualization offer them? The Blrm E/F workshop format will be a mix of talks and discussion ses- Tutorial 4: Level Set Methods for Visualization sions, with a target of generating a state of the art report on Organizer: David Breen, Drexel University the area.

Additional Speaker: Ken Museth, Linkoeping University 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Level set methods, an important class of partial differential Frederick/Columbia equation (PDE) methods, define dynamic surfaces implic- Interactive Demo Lab itly as the level set (iso-surface) of a sampled, evolving nD function. This course is targeted for researchers interested in learning about level set methods, and their application to visualization. The course material will be presented by two recognized experts in the field, and will include introductory concepts, practical considerations and extensive details on a variety of level set applications. The course will introduces the concept of using deformable implicit models to solve problems in visualization, and will describe the numerical methods, algorithms and data structures needed to accom-

9 INFOVIS Symposium LUNCH BREAK 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. – 2:40 p.m. 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Blrm B Harborview Tree and Treemap Applications InfoVis Posters Chair: Frank van Ham, IBM Cambridge 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Visualization of Barrier Tree Sequences, Christian Heine, Constellations Hallway Foyer Gerik Scheuermann, Christoph Flamm, Ivo L. Hofacker, Peter F. InfoVis Art Show Stadler 8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Visualizing Business Data with Generalized Treemaps, Blrm B Roel Vliegen, Jarke J. van Wijk, Erik-Jan van der Linden Geographic Visualization FacetMap: A Scalable Search and Browse Visualization, Chair: Jason Dykes, City University London Greg Smith, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Meyers, Daniel Robbins, Visualization of Geo-spatial Point Sets via Global Shape George Robertson, Desney Tan Transformation and Local Pixel Placement, Mike Sips, Chris- tian Panse, Daniel A. Keim, Stephen C. North 2:40 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. Blrm B Worldmapper: the world as you’ve never seen it before, Art Exhibit Preview Daniel Dorling, Anna Barford, Mark Newman Chairs: Fernanda Viégas, IBM Research, Martin Wattenberg, Spatial Analysis of News Sources, Andrew Mehler, Yunfan IBM Research, Andrew Vande Moere, University of Sydney Bao, Xin Li, Yue Wang, Steven Skiena Dynamic Map Labeling, Ken Been, Eli Daiches, Chee Yap BREAK 3:10 p.m. – 3:40 p.m. BREAK 10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. 3:40 p.m. – 4:55 p.m. 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Blrm B Blrm B InfoVis Posters Preview and Contest Review Network Visualization Chair: Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA Topographic Visualization of Prefix Propagation in the Inter- 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. net, Pier Francesco Cortese, Giuseppe Di Battista, Antonello Atrium Moneta, Maurizio Patrignani, Maurizio Pizzonia Reception Network Visualization by Semantic Substrates, Ben Shneider- man, Aleks Aris INFOVIS 2006 BEST PAPER Hierarchical Edge Bundles: Visualization of Adjacency Relations in Hierarchical Data, Danny Holten VIS 2007 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA USA • OCTOBER 28 - NOVEMBER 2, 2007 Vis 2007 is the premier forum for visualization advances in science and engineering for academia, government, and industry. This event brings together researchers and practitioners with a shared interest in tools, techniques, and technology. The conference will include an exciting and informative collection of workshops, tutorials, papers, panels, demonstrations, posters, and exhibitions. We invite you to participate by sharing your research, insights, experience, and enthusiasm in Sacramento, California.

Co-located with Vis 2007 are the following Symposia: InfoVis 2007: IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization VAST 2007: IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology

Conference Chairs: More information at Kenneth Joy, University of California, Davis http://vis.computer.org/vis2007 Amitabh Varshney, University of Maryland For questions, email [email protected]

Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee 10 Tuesday, October 31 INFOVIS Symposium 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Harborview Blrm A Tutorial 6: Texture and Feature-Based Flow Visualization InfoVis Posters Organizer: Robert S. Laramee, University of Wales Swansea Additional Speakers: Gordon Erlebacher, Florida State Uni- 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. versity, Christoph Garth, University of Kaiserslautern, Holger Constellations Hallway Foyer Theisel, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Xavier Tricoche, InfoVis Art Show University of Utah, Tino Weinkauf, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin, Daniel Weiskopf, Simon Fraser University 8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. The computer graphics and scientific visualization communi- Blrm B ties have recently witnessed a strong trend toward growth Overviews and Detail and progress in the topics of texture and feature-based flow Chair: Chris Weaver, Penn State University visualization methodologies. These complementary approaches offer powerful means to display the qualitative User Interaction with Scatterplots on Small Screens - A Com- and quantitative properties of large, time-dependent vector parative Evaluation of Geometric-Semantic Zoom and Fisheye fields. This tutorial brings together both the fundamen- Distortion, Thorsten Buering, Jens Gerken, Harald Reiterer tals and the latest results of the corresponding research in The Perceptual Scalability of Visualization, Beth Yost, Chris the form of presentations, demonstrations, literature, and North supplementary material. Complex Logarithmic Views for Small Details in Large Con- 8:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. texts, Joachim Böttger, Michael Balzer, Oliver Deussen Blrm E/F Software Design Patterns for Information Visualization, Tutorial 7: Color in Information Display Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala Organizer: Maureen C. Stone, StoneSoup Consulting BREAK 10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Color is a key component of information display that is 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. easy to use badly. While inspired color design is an art, the Blrm B principles that underlie good color design have their roots Graph Drawing in human perception and a deep understanding of the color properties of different media. This course is designed to Chair: Stephen North, AT&T Research introduce the technical community to the visual principles Visual Exploration of Complex Time-Varying Graphs, Gautam that inform good design, and the advances in color science, Kumar, Michael Garland color technology, and color appearance modeling that can be applied to the problem of using color effectively in informa- Smashing Peacocks Further: Drawing Quasi-Trees from Bicon- tion display. nected Components, Daniel Archambault, Tamara Munzner, David Auber 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. IPSep-CoLa: An Incremental Procedure for Separation Con- Frederick/Columbia straint Layout of Graphs, Tim Dwyer, Yehuda Koren, Kim Interactive Demo Lab Marriott

LUNCH BREAK 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. 12:15 p.m. –1:15 p.m. Frederick/Columbia Blrm B Exhibits InfoVis Open Meeting

11 VAST Symposium wednesday, November 1 1:30 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. 8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Blrm B Blrm A/B InfoVis Capstone and Closing/ VAST Keynote Keynote: Failures of Visual Awareness InfoVis Chair: Matt Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Daniel Simons, University of Illinois VAST Chairs: Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National at Urbana-Champaign Laboratory, Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz How much of our visual world do we Designer Information - Why Visualization really see? Recent studies of how and Analytics Technologies Should Help people perceive and remember the Us Focus Our Minds and Not Our Senses, visual world have revealed striking Joseph Kielman, Science Advisor, Science failures of visual awareness. For and Technology Directorate, Department of example, people often fail to notice Homeland Security large changes to visual scenes when those changes occur during a brief The current metaphors used to justify disruption or distraction. Such visualization research involve the specters failures of awareness suggest that of massive information flows and analyst we perceive far less of our surroundings than we might overload and such demands as “connecting the dots” and otherwise think. And, this disparity between what we see searching for “nuggets”. Knowledge discovery becomes the and what we think we see can have striking real-world con- challenge, and presenting the greatest amount of informa- sequences. This talk will give numerous examples of such tion to the bewildered user, or viewer in this case, the goal. failures of awareness, illustrating how the mechanisms and Throughout history, however, visual metaphors have first and limitations of visual attention constrain what we see. It will foremost helped humans organize and digest information. also discuss the positive functional role of attention in per- Irrelevant information or conceptions have been ignored or formance, noting how failures of awareness are a necessary discarded. Customized or tailored interpretations have been (albeit unfortunate) by product of human visual perception. put forward. What do I need to know? has been more crucial than What do I need to see? Designer information, just like “designer drugs” or designer “genes”, is the watchword for 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. visualization and analytics in this 21st Century. And one of its Frederick/Columbia most rigorous applications is homeland security. Interactive Demo Lab BREAK 3:10 p.m. – 3:40 p.m. 3:40 p.m. – 4:55 p.m. 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Blrm B Harborview Spatial and Temporal Data Vis Posters Chair: Bill Ribarsky, University of North Carolina Charlotte TimeTree: Exploring Time Changing Hierarchies, Stuart Card, 10:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Bongwon Suh, Bryan Pendleton, Jeffrey Heer, John Bodnar Baltimore/Annapolis Exhibits Visual Exploration of Spatio-temporal Relationships for Scien- tific Data, Sameep Mehta, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Raghu Machiraju BREAK 10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Visual Analytics of Paleoceanographic Conditions, Roberto 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Theron, Roberto Theron Blrm A/B Avian Flu Case Study with nSpace and GeoTime, Pascale Papers Preview Proulx, Sumeet Tandon, Adam Bodnar, David Schroh, Robert Harper, William Wright LUNCH BREAK 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Visual Analysis of Historic Hotel Visitation Patterns, Chris 1:30 p.m. –3:10 p.m. Weaver, David Fyfe, Anthony Robinson, Deryck Holdsworth, Blrm A Donna Peuquet, Alan MacEachren Visualization in Medicine Chair: Terry Yoo, National Institutes of Health 5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Blrm C/D/E/F A Pipeline for Computer Aided Polyp Detection, Wei Hong, Live Contest (By invitation only) Feng Qiu, Arie Kaufman Chairs: Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Full Body Virtual Autopsies using a State-of-the-art Volume Sharon Laskowski, National Bureau of Standards and Technol- Rendering Pipeline, Patric Ljung, Calle Winskog, Anders Pers- ogy, Theresa O’Connell, National Bureau of Standards and son, Claes Lundström, Anders Ynnerman Technology, Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland, Jean Real-Time Illustration of Vascular Structures, Felix Ritter, Scholtz, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Mark Whiting, Christian Hansen, Volker Dicken, Olaf Konrad, Bernhard Preim, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Heinz-Otto Peitgen 12 Lines of Curvature for Polyp Detection in Virtual Colonoscopy, Vortex Visualization for Practical Engineering Applications, Lingxiao Zhao, Charl P. Botha, Javier O. Bescos, Roel Truyen, Monika Jankun-Kelly, Ming Jiang, David Thompson, Raghu Frans M. Vos, Frits H. Post Machiraju

Blrm B An Advanced Evenly-Spaced Streamline Placement Algorithm, Information and MultiVariate Visualization Zhanping Liu, Robert J. Moorhead II, Joe Groner Chair: Matt Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 5:00 p.m. –5:45 p.m. Outlier-Preserving Focus+Context Visualization in Parallel Coor- BlrmE/F dinates, Matej Novotny, Helwig Hauser Posters Preview Composite Rectilinear Deformation for Stretch and Squish Chair: Gordon Kindlmann, Harvard Medical School Navigation, James Slack, Tamara Munzner Multi-variate, Time Varying, and Comparative Visualization 5:45 p.m. –6:15 p.m. with Contextual Cues, Jonathan Woodring, Han-Wei Shen BlrmE/F Contest Results Multifield-Graphs: An Approach to Visualizing Correlations in Multifield Scalar Data, Natascha Sauber, Holger Theisel, Hans- Chair: Russell Taylor II, University of North Carolina Peter Seidel 7:00 p.m. –9:30 p.m. Blrm E/F Maryland Science Center Best Posters Presentations (1:30-2:20) Conference Reception and Vis Posters Chair: Daniel Weiskopf, Simon Fraser University The reception will be in the spectacular three-story atrium of the nearby Maryland Science Center, featuring magnificent BREAK 3:10 p.m. – 3:40 p.m. views of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Come socialize with us in 3:40 p.m. – 4:55 p.m. the midst of full-sized dinosaurs and an interactive multime- Blrm A dia exhibit celebrating the art of Norman Rockwell, one of America’s most beloved artists. Panel: The Vis / InfoVis schism: Why are we two different communities? Moderator: Helwig Hauser, VRVis Research Center Panelists: Daniel Weiskopf, Simon Fraser University, Kwan-Liu VAST Symposium Ma, UC Davis, Jarke J. vanWijk, Techn. Univ. Eindhoven, Robert 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Kosara, UNC Charlotte Blrm C/D Scientific Visualization (SciVis) and Information Visualization Contest Results (InfoVis) are well-established and often used terms in the re- Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Sharon search field of visualization. But instead of intuitively illustrat- Laskowski, National Bureau of Standards and Technology, ing two research fields with disjunctive goals, challenges, and Theresa O’Connell, National Bureau of Standards and Technol- approaches, which they are not, this terminology of SciVis vs. ogy, Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland, Jean Scholtz, InfoVis rather represents a manifested community divide. In Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Mark Whiting, Pacific this panel, we boil up a discussion about the pros and cons of Northwest National Laboratory this community divide, we identify the good reasons for staying apart from each other as well as the good reasons for getting LUNCH BREAK 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. together a bit more. 1:30 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. Blrm B Blrm C/D Illustrative Visualization I Complex Information Spaces Chair: Cláudio Silva, University of Utah Chair: Stuart Card, Palo Alto Research Center Saliency-guided Enhancement for Volume Visualization, D-Dupe: An Interactive Tool for Entity Resolution in Social Youngmin Kim, Amitabh Varshney Networks, Mustafa Bilgic, Louis Licamele, Lise Getoor, Ben Shneiderman Importance-Driven Focus of Attention, Ivan Viola, Miguel Feixas, Mateu Sbert, Eduard Gröller Interactive Visual Synthesis of Analytic Knowledge, David Gotz, Michelle X. Zhou, Vikram Aggarwal ClearView: An Interactive Context Preserving Hotspot Visualization Technique, Jens Krüger, Jens Schneider, Visual Analysis of Conflicting Opinions, Chaomei Chen, Rüdiger Westermann Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Eric SanJuan, Chris Weaver Have Green-A Visual Analytics Framework for Large Semantic Blrm E/F Graphs, Pak Chung Wong, George Chin, Harlan Foote, Patrick Flow Visualization Mackey, Jim Thomas Chair: Eduard Gröller, Vienna University of Technology Exploring Large-Scale Video News via Interactive Visualiza- Visualization Tools for Vorticity Transport Analysis in Incom- tion, Hangzai Luo, Jianping Fan, Jing Yang, William Ribarsky, pressible Flow, Filip Sadlo, Ronald Peikert, Mirjam Sick Shin’ichi Satoh

13 BREAK 3:10 p.m. – 3:40 p.m. 3:40 p.m. – 5:40 p.m. Thursday, november 2 Blrm C/D 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Graph and Network Data Blrm F Chair: George Robertson, Microsoft Research Tutorial 8: Modern Parallel Coordinates: Relational Informa- tion Clear Patterns Interactive Visualization and Analysis of Network and Sensor Data on a Mobile Device, Avin Pattath, Brian Bue, Yun Jang, Organizer: Alfred Inselberg, Tel Aviv University David Ebert, Xuan Zhong, Aaron Ault, Edward Coyle Additional Speakers: Helwig Hauser, VRVis, Matthew Ward, NetLens: Iterative Exploration of Content-Actor Network Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Li Yang, Western Michigan Data, Hyunmo Kang, Catherine Plaisant, Bongshin Lee, University Benjamin B. Bederson Parallel Coordinates are introduced and developed rigorously, Interactive Wormhole Detection in Large Scale Wireless using new didactic software, showing how multidimensional Networks, Weichao Wang, Aidong Lu lines, hyperplanes, flats, curves and smooth hypersurfaces can be visualized unambiguously. The visualization of the Enhancing Visual Analysis of Network Traffic Using Knowl- family of close planes obtained by small rotations and trans- edge Representations, Ling Xiao, John Gerth, Pat Hanrahan lations of a given plane is posed as a challenge. The answer is Accelerating Network Traffic Analysis Using Query-Driven presented as the construction of convex polygons represent- Visualization, E. Wes Bethel, Scott Campbell, Eli Dart, Kurt ing families of close planes not only for 3-D but also for N-di- Stockinger, Kesheng Wu mensions. The visualization of complex relations is illustrated Monitoring Network Traffic with Radial Traffic Analyzer, with the representation of the winding helicoid, Moebius Daniel A. Keim, Florian Mansmann, Jörn Schneidewind, strip in 3-D and N-D and other surfaces. Tobias Schreck 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Frederick/Columbia Interactive Demo Lab

8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Harborview Vis Posters

8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Blrm A Visualization Systems Chair: Lisa Avila, Kitware Fine-grained Visualization Pipelines and Lazy Functional Languages, David Duke, Malcolm Wallace, Rita Borgo, Colin Runciman A Novel Visualization Model for Web Search Results, Tien N. Nguyen, Jin Zhang A Trajectory-Preserving Synchronization Method for Collaborative Visualization, Lewis W.F. Li, Frederick W.B. Li, Rynson W.H. Lau Concurrent Visualization in a Production Supercomputing Environment, David Ellsworth, Bryan Green, Chris Henze, Patrick Moran, Timothy Sandstrom

Blrm B User Interfaces Chair: T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Mississippi State University Scalable WIM: Effective Exploration in Large-scale Astro- physical Environments, Yinggang Li, Chi-Wing Fu, Andrew J. Hanson Using Visual Cues of Contact to Improve Interactive Manipu- lation of Virtual Objects in Industrial Assembly/Maintenance Simulations, Jean Sreng, Anatole Lécuyer, Christine Mégard, Claude Andriot 14 High-Level User Interfaces for Transfer Function Design with 1:30 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. Semantics, Christof Rezk Salama, Maik Keller, Peter Kohlmann Blrm B LOD Map - A Visual Interface for Navigating Multiresolution Perception Volume Visualization, Chaoli Wang, Han-Wei Shen Chair: Chris North, Virginia Tech

Blrm E Enhancing Depth Perception in Translucent Volumes, Marta Visualization in Physical Sciences, Life Sciences & Engineering I Kersten, James Stewart, Niko Troje, Randy Ellis Chair: Klaus Mueller, Stony Brook University Texturing of Layered Surfaces for Optimal Viewing, Alethea S. Bair, Donald H. House, Colin Ware Analyzing Complex FTMS Simulations: a Case Study in High- Level Visualization of Ion Motions, Wojciech Burakiewicz, Subjective Quantification of Perceptual Interactions Among Robert van Liere Some 2D Scientific Visualization Methods, Daniel Acevedo, David H. Laidlaw Detection and Visualization of Defects in 3D Unstructured Models of Nematic Liquid Crystals, Ketan Mehta, T.J. Jankun- Occlusion-Free Animation of Driving Routes for Car Navigation Kelly Systems, Shigeo Takahashi, Kenichi Yoshida, Kenji Shimada, Tomoyuki Nishita Understanding the Structure of the Turbulent Mixing Layer in Hydrodynamic Instabilities, Daniel Laney, Peer-Timo Bremer, Blrm E Ajith Macarenhas, Paul Miller, Valerio Pascucci Visualization in Physical Sciences, Life Sciences & Engineering II Hub-based Simulation and Graphics Hardware Accelerated Chair: Russell Taylor II, University of North Carolina Visualization for Nanotechnology Applications, Wei Qiao, Mi- Interactive Visualization of Intercluster Galaxy Structures in chael McLennan, Rick Kennell, David S. Ebert, Gerhard Klimeck the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster, Jameson Miller, Cory 10:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. W. Quammen, Matthew C. Fleenor Baltimore/Annapolis An Atmospheric Visual Analysis and Exploration System, Exhibits Yuyan Song, Jing Ye, Nikolai Svakhine, Sonia Lasher-Trapp, Mike Baldwin, David Ebert BREAK 10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Visualization of Fibrous and Thread-like Data, Zeki Melek, David 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Mayerich, Cem Yuksel, John Keyser Blrm B Comparative Visualization for Wave-based and Geometric Illustrative Visualization II Acoustics, Eduard Deines, Martin Bertram, Jan Mohring, Jev- Chair: Jian Huang, University of Tennessee genij Jegorovs, Frank Michel, Hans Hagen, Gregory M. Nielson Feature Aligned Volume Manipulation for Illustration and Visu- BREAK 3:10 p.m. – 3:40 p.m. alization, Carlos D. Correa, Deborah Silver, Min Chen 3:40 p.m. –4:55 p.m. Exploded Views for Volume Data, Stefan Bruckner, Eduard Gröller Blrm B Caricaturistic Visualization, Peter Rautek, Ivan Viola, Eduard Vector/Tensor Visualization I Gröller Chair: Gerik Scheuermann, Universität Leipzig Blrm E Hybrid Visualization for White Matter Tracts using Triangle Video Systems and Time-Varying Data Strips and Point Sprites, Dorit Merhof, Markus Sonntag, Frank Chair: Mark Duchaineau, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Enders, Christopher Nimsky, Peter Hastreiter, Günther Greiner Visual Signatures in Video Visualization, Min Chen, Ralf P. Botchen, Analyzing Vortex Breakdown Flow Structures by Assignment of Rudy R. Hashim, Daniel Weiskopf, Thomas Ertl, Ian M. Thornton Colors to Tensor Invariants, Markus Rütten, Min S. Chong Asynchronous Distributed Calibration for Scalable and Recon- Superellipsoid-based, Real Symmetric Traceless Tensor Glyphs figurable Multi-Projector Displays, Ezekiel S. Bhasker, Pinaki Motivated by Nematic Liquid Crystal Alignment Visualization, Sinha, Aditi Majumder T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Ketan Mehta Dynamic View Selection for Time-Varying Volumes, Guangfeng Blrm E Ji, Han-Wei Shen Isosurfaces and Polygonal Meshes I

LUNCH BREAK 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Chair: Dirk Bartz, University of Tübingen 12:15 p.m. –1:15 p.m. High-Quality Extraction of Isosurfaces from Regular and Irregu- lar Grids, John Schreiner, Carlos E. Scheidegger, Cláudio T. Silva Blrm A Vis Open Meeting Mesh Layouts for Block-Based Caches, Sung-Eui Yoon, Peter Lindstrom Out-of-Core Remeshing of Large Polygonal Meshes, Minsu Ahn, Igor Guskov, Seungyong Lee

15 Vis/VAST PhD Colloquium VAST Symposium 8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. 8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Blrm C/D Blrm C/D PhD Colloquium Morning Paper Session PhD Colloquium, Please see left column for full schedule Chairs: Richard May and Bill Pike, Pacific Northwest National BREAK 10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Laboratory 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Visualization of High-dimensional Data, Steven Bergner Blrm C/D Visual Inquiry of Spatio-Temporal Multivariate Patterns, Jin Chen Panel: Visual Analytics Education Moderator: Jim Foley, Georgia Institute of Technology Visualization of Large Transition Systems, A. Johannes Pretorius Panelists: Stuart K. Card, PARC, David Ebert, Purdue, Alan Visualization Diversity: A Cognitive-Based Training Method for MacEachren, Penn State, Bill Ribarsky, UNC-Charlotte Visualization Comprehension, Maria C. Velez Visual Analytics is a newly-evolving field that spans across BREAK 10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. several more established disciplines. This panel will discuss 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. how VA system developers and researchers are best educated Blrm A at the MS and PhD levels. Panel: Visualization Careers LUNCH BREAK 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Moderator: Bill Lorensen, GE Research 1:30 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. Panelists: Chris Johnson, University of Utah, Bill Lorensen, GE Blrm C/D Research, Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia, Will Evaluation and Collaborative Aspects Schroeder, Kitware, Terry Yoo, National Library of Medicine Chair: Brian Fisher, Simon Fraser University Visualization is still a young and expanding discipline with Toward a Multi-Analyst, Collaborative Framework for Visual plenty of exciting challenges and opportunities for innovation. Analytics, Susan E. Brennan, Klaus Mueller, Greg Zelinsky, This panel presents five approaches to careers in visualization: IV Ramakrishnan, David S. Warren, Arie Kaufman Academic Center (Johnson), Industrial Research (Lorensen), Academic Research (Munzner), Entrepreneur (Schroeder), and Collaborative Visual Analytics: Inferring from the spatial Government Scientist (Yoo). Panelist will describe their history, organization and collaborative use of information, Paul Keel motivation, and positive/negative aspects of their career choice. Beyond Usability: Evaluation Aspects of Visual Analytic Envi- ronments, Jean Scholtz LUNCH BREAK 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. Visualizing The Performance of Computational Linguistics Blrm A Algorithms, Stephen Eick, Justin Mauger, Alan Ratner PhD Colloquium Afternoon Paper Session ScentIndex: Conceptually Reorganizing Subject Indexes for Reading, Ed H. Chi, Lichan Hong, Julie Heiser, Stuart K. Card Chairs: Penny Rheingans and Alark Joshi, University of Mary- land, Baltimore County BREAK 3:10 p.m. – 3:40 p.m. Feature-Based Graph Visualization, Daniel Archambault 3:40 p.m. – 5:20 p.m. Adaptive Visualization of Dynamic Unstructured Meshes, Blrm C/D Steven P. Callahan Multidimensional Multivariate Data Visualization and Exploration of Perfusion Data, Steffen Oeltze Chair: Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University Visualization Techniques for Computational Mechanics, A Visual Interface for Multivariate Temporal Data: Finding Alisa Neeman Patterns of Events across Multiple Histories, Jerry Fails, Amy Karlson, Layla Shahamat, Ben Shneiderman BREAK 3:10 p.m. – 3:40 p.m. User Interfaces for the Exploration of Hierarchical Multi- 3:40 p.m. –4:55 p.m. dimensional Data, Mark Sifer Blrm A Exploratory Visualization of Multivariate Data with Variable Panel: Publishing your Visualization Research Quality, Zaixian Xie, Shiping Huang, Matthew Ward, Elke Moderator: Penny Rheingans, University of Maryland, Baltimore Rundensteiner County Semantic Image Browser: Bridging Information Visualiza- Panelists: David Ebert, Purdue University, David Laidlaw, Brown tion with Automated Intelligent Image Analysis, Jing Yang, University, Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia, Jianping Fan, Daniel Hubball , Yuli Gao, Hangzai Luo, William Jarke van Wijk, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Ribarsky, Matthew Ward Successful publishing begins with an original idea and ends Pixnostics: Towards Measuring the Value of Visualization, with a contribution to the body of human knowledge. Along Joern Schneidewind, Daniel Keim, Mike Sips the way, the idea may be realized through an implementation, demonstrated to be relevant, evaluated, spun into a compelling 5:20 p.m. – 5:40 p.m. technical story, and presented. Alternatively, the idea may be Blrm C/D initially misunderstood and rejected. This panel bring together Closing Remarks researchers who are active in publishing, reviewing, editing, and Chairs: Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National Labora- mentoring to discuss success stories, setbacks, and strategies. tory, Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz

16 BREAK 10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. FRIday, november 3 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Blrm A 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Frederick/Columbia Volume rendering of extremely large datasets Interactive Demo Lab Chair: Xavier Tricoche, University of Utah Scalable Data Servers for Large Multivariate Volume Visualiza- tion, Markus Glatter, Colin Mollenhour, Jian Huang, Jinzhu Gao Harborview Distributed Shared Memory for Roaming Large Volumes, Vis Posters Laurent Castanié, Christophe Mion, Xavier Cavin, Bruno Lévy Progressive Volume Rendering of Large Unstructured Grids, 8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Steven P. Callahan, Louis Bavoil, Valerio Pascucci, Cláudio T. Silva Blrm A Blrm B Panel: Is there Science in Visualization? Vector/Tensor Visualization II Moderator: T. J. Jankun-Kelly, Mississippi State University Chair: Holger Theisel, Max Planck Institute Saarbrücken Panelists: Robert Kosara, University of North Carolina at Representing Higher-Order Singularities in Vector Fields on Charlotte, Gordon Kindlmann, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Piecewise Linear Surfaces, Wan-Chiu Li, Bruno Vallet, Nicolas Harvard Medical School, Chris North, Virginia Tech, Colin Ware, Ray, Bruno Lévy University of New Hampshire, E. Wes Bethel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Techniques for the Visualization of Topological Defect Behavior in Nematic Liquid Crystals, Vadim A. Slavin, Robert A. Pelcovits, Advances in computer graphics technology and computing George Loriot, Andrew Callan-Jones, David H. Laidlaw power have enabled the development of visualization techniques that have had a positive impact on medicine, compu- Diffusion Tensor Visualization with Glyph Packing, Gordon tational science, bioinformatics, and finance. However, this Kindlmann, Carl-Fredrik Westin focus on transitional efforts has not sufficiently addressed the Blrm E/F basic science needed to create universal, validated principles on which to ground future visualization efforts. The purpose of Volume Modeling and Rendering the panel is to (1) assess whether a science of visualization is Chair: David Ebert, Purdue University necessary and (2) discuss what is needed for such a science. Extensions of the Zwart-Powell Box Spline for Volumetric Blrm B Data Reconstruction on the Cartesian Lattice, Alireza Entezari, Torsten Möller Large Data Set Visualization A Generic and Scalable Pipeline for GPU Tetrahedral Grid Chair: Valerio Pascucci, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Rendering, Joachim Georgii, Rüdiger Westermann Interactive Point-Based Rendering of Higher-Order Tetrahedral A Spectral Analysis of Function Composition and its Implica- Data, Yuan Zhou, Michael Garland tions for Sampling in Direct Volume Visualization, Steven Ambient Occlusion and Edge Cueing for Enhancing Real Time Bergner, Torsten Möller, Daniel Weiskopf, David J. Muraki Molecular Visualization, Marco Tarini, Paolo Cignoni, Claudio Montani LUNCH BREAK 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Fast and Efficient Compression of Floating-Point Data,Peter 1:30 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. Lindstrom, Martin Isenburg Blrm C/D/E/F Visualization and Analysis of Large Data Collections: a Case Capstone: Designing Visualizations to Enable Study Applied to Confocal Microscopy Data, Wim de Leeuw, Molecular Insights Pernette Verschure, Robert van Liere Jane Richardson, Duke University Our laboratory research goal of un- Blrm E/F derstanding 3D molecular structures Isosurfaces and Polygonal Meshes II depends strongly on the develop- Chair: Ramani Duraiswami, University of Maryland ment and use of visualization On Histograms and Isosurface Statistics, Hamish Carr, Brian systems. We especially value their Duffy, Barry Denby effectiveness for enabling scientific insights, in our original research pro- Interactive Point-based Isosurface Exploration and High-quality cess as well as in the communication Rendering, Haitao Zhang, Arie Kaufman of those results, which leads us to Using Difference Intervals for Time-Varying Isosurface Visual- emphasize interactive functionality and pragmatic effective- ization, Kenneth Waters, Christopher Co, Kenneth Joy ness over perfection as presentation images. Therefore we Isosurface Extraction and Spatial Filtering using Persistent design alternative molecular visualizations tuned to the Octree (POT), Qingmin Shi, Joseph JaJa medium, the user, and the specific scientific problem at hand; feedback from our own use improves them further.

17 POSTERS PlantPost - Visualizing TemporalAspects of Message Postings, Sunday-Tuesday, Harborview Annie Tat, Russell Kruger, Sheelagh Carpendale, Alan Dunning InfoVis Posters Personalizing Typed Text through Visualization, Petra Neu- Visualizing Multivariate Network Using GeoSOM and Spherical mann, Annie Tat, Torre Zuk, Sheelagh Carpendale Disk Layout, Yingxin Wu, Masahiro Takatsuka, Richard Webber TreePlus: Visualizing Graphs as Trees, Bongshin Lee, Cynthia SportVis: Discovering Meaning in Sports Statistics Through Sims Parr, Catherine Plaisant, Benjamin B. Bederson Information Visualization, Andy Cox, John Stasko Wednesday-Friday, Harborview NeuroVis: exploring interaction techniques by combining Visualization Posters dimensional stacking and pixelization to visualize multidi- A Framework for Adaptive Visualization, K.W. Brodlie, J. Brooke, mensional multivariate data, John T. Langton, Astrid A. Prinz, M. Chen, D. Chisnall, C.J. Hughes, N.W. John, M.W. Jones, M. Rid- Timothy J. Hickey ing, N. Roard, M.J. Turner, J. Wood Effects of Animations on Maintaining Perceptual Constancy in Node-Link Diagrams, Maruthappan Shanmugasundaram, ElVis: A Portal for Scientific Graphics, Eliot Feibush, Douglas Pourang Irani, Carl Gutwin McCune, Scott Klasky Multi-Resolution Techniques for Visual Exploration of Large Forecast Visualizations for Terrorist Events, Jason Goffeney, Time-Series Data, Ming Hao, Umeshwar Dayal, Tobias Schreck, Greg S. Schmidt, Jason Dalton, Jim D’Archangelo Daniel Keim Simultaneous Visualization of Density and Velocity of Smoke, The Tradeoffs when Using Space Time Cube Representation, Masataka Imura, Yoshihiro Yasumuro, Yoshitsugu Manabe, Per Ola Kristensson, Daniel Anundi, Marius Björnstad, Nils Kunihiro Chihara Dahlbäck, Hanna Gillberg, Jonas Haraldsson, Ingrid Mårtens- Visualizing Phosphorilation Experiments Data in the Context of son, Mathias Nordvall, Josefine Ståhl Known Protein Interactions, Radu Jianu, David Laidlaw, Arthur The Star System --- A Case Study for Clustered Graph Anima- Salomon tion, Richard Webber Hierarchy-based 3-D Visualization of Homologous Gene Expres- Visualization and Analysis of Small-World Email Networks, sion across Different Organisms, Li Jin, Karl V. Steiner, Carl J. Xiaoyan Fu, Seok-Hee Hong, Nikola S. Nikolov, Xiaobin Shen, Schmidt, Keith S. Decker Yingxin Wu, Kai Xu Multi-Modal Medical Visualization based on Spatial Transfer Topographically-Based Real-Time Traffic Anomaly Detection Function, Jinman Kim, Stefan Eberl, David Feng in a Metropolitan Highway System, Rajmonda Sulo, Anushka Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Particle Image Velocim- Anand, Leland Wilkinson, Robert Grossman, Stephen Eick etry in Bat Flight, Mykhaylo Kostandov, Igor Pivkin, Kenneth NewsEye: A Geographic News Visualization, Rowena Luk, Breuer, Sharon Swartz, David Laidlaw Emelie KaiFeng Cheng Visualization of Nuclear Pasta, Jagannathan Lakshmipathy, Visualizing Set Concordance with Permutation Matrix and Fan John N. Huffman, Michael J. Boyles, Eric A. Wernert, Donald K. Diagram, Bohyoung Kim, Bongshin Lee, Jinwook Seo Berry Conversation Maps for Collaborative Drawing-Centered Design, Image Based Streamline Generation and Rendering, Liya Li, Daniel Glaser, Alastair Iles, Cheryl Geisler Han-Wei Shen Two-Tone Pseudo Coloring for Multiple Variables, Mathias John, Drishti - Volume Exploration and Presentation Tool, Ajay Limaye Christian Tominski, Heidrun Schumann Robust Centerline Extraction for Virtual Endoscopy Using a Exploring OLAP Aggregates with Hierarchical Visualization Modified Distance Field, Jianfei Liu, Kalpathi Subramanian Techniques, Svetlana Mansmann, Marc H. Scholl, Daniel Keim, Florian Mansmann Steroscopic Visualization and Virtual Reality Displays, Salvatore Livatino, Filippo Privitera Exploring Block Access Patterns of Native XML Storage, Halldor Janetzko, Daniel A. Keim, Marc Kramis, Florian Mansmann, Volume Rendering with a Grid-Independent Illuminant Particle Marcel Waldvogel Model, Frederika Rambu Ngana, Takuya Hatta, Naohisa Saka- moto, Jorji Nonaka, Satoshi Tanaka, Koji Koyamada Interactive Poster: Visual Navigation Through Large Directed Graphs and Hypergraphs, Jason Eisner, Michael Kornbluh, Gor- A Web-Based Interactive 3D Visualization Architecture, don Woodhull, Raymond Buse, Samuel Huang, Constantinos David Ostrowski Michael, George Shafer DTI-Mapper : A Framework for the Creation and Analysis of DocuBurst: Document Content Visualization Using Language New Discriminants to Detect DTI Properties, Koji Sakai, Naohisa Structure, Christopher Collins Sakamoto, Jorji Nonaka, Koji Koyamada, Yukio Yasuahara, Shiho Takagi, Kei Yamada, Hiroyuki Oouchi, Tsunehiko Nishimura Non-linear Summarization of a Database for 3D Model Retrieval, Yoshiki Akaike, Toshiya Shimizu, Jun Kobayashi, Ryutarou Ohbuchi Visualizing Patterns in the Poincare Plot of a Magnetic, Allen R. Sanderson, Xavier Tricoche, Christoph Garth, Scott Kruger, Carl Visualizing Program Syntax to Support Agile Programming, Solvinec, Eric Held, Joshua Breslau Andrew Seniuk, Sheelagh Carpendale Interactive Annotations on Large, High-Resolution Information Visualizing Abstract Data Using Animation, Amit Sawant, Displays, Tobias Isenberg, Petra Neumann, Sheelagh Carpen- Christopher Healey dale, Simon Nix, Saul Greenberg

18 The Celera Genome Browser: Visualizing and Annotating the Wednesday-Thursday, Frederick/Columbia Human Genome, Russell Turner, James Baxendale, Peter Davies, Conference Demos Patrick Dunn, Leslie Foster, Scott Henderson, Todd Safford An Information Interface to a Life-seeking Desert Rover, Visualization support to chemistry research, Mario Valle Peter Coppin Illustrative Rendering for Information Visualization, Chris Rapid Development of Visual Tools for Exploring Geospatial, Waters, T.J. Jankun-Kelly Temporal, and Conceptual Information, Chris Weaver, Ritesh Transfer Function Fusing, Yingcai Wu, Huamin Qu, Hong Zhou, Agrawal, Jin Chen, Mike Stryker, Alan M. MacEachren Ming-Yuen Chan Monday-Thursday, Frederick/Columbia Visualization of Rupture Fault Simulation Inspired by Light Full Week Demos Interference, Xiaoru Yuan, Minh X Nguyen, Yingchun Liu, David A. Yuen, Baoquan Chen, Yaolin Shi Storylines - a Tool to Explore Events and Key Players in Stories, Weizhong Zhu, Chaomei Chen Raycasting Feature-Enhanced Distance Field, Nan Zhang , Xiaoru Yuan, Huamin Qu, Baoquan Chen Modelling and Understanding Knowledge Related to Digital Shapes - the AIM@SHAPE Approach, Laura Papaleo, Leila De INTERACTIVE DEMO LAB Floriani, Emanuele Danovaro Monday-Friday, Frederick/Columbia Great Grids: How and Why?, Maureen Stone, Lyn Bartram NEW: Scientific Animation Theater Diorama Table, Keiko Takahashi, Shinji Sasada Vis 2006 will see the premiere of the Scientific Animation Drishti: A Volume Exploration and Presentation Tool, Theater. This year’s film will include the following segments: Ajay Limaye Exploring an Earthquake Simulation, Amit Chourasia, Steve Visualization Interfaces on Reconfigurable High-Resolution Cutchin Displays, Chris North 27 Storms: Arlene to Zeta, Greg Shirah, Alex Kekesi, Lori Perkins, Horace Mitchell, Stuart A. Snodgrass, Marte Newcombe, Ran- INFOVIS 2006 CONTEST RESULTS dall Jones, Jeff de La Beaujardiere, Kevin Mahoney, Eric So- Exploration of the local distribution of major ethnic groups in kolowsky, Cindy Starr, Joycelyn Jones, James W. Williams, Jesse the USA, Sebastian Kay Belle, Daniela Oelke, Sonja Oettl, Allen, Tom Bridgman, Michael Starobin, Jeff Halverson Mike Sips A Short Tour of the Cryosphere, Alex Kekesi, Cindy Starr, Horace π-flow, Mike Bennett, Brendan Sheehan, Benoit Gaudin, Aaron Mitchell, Ryan Boller, Greg Shirah, Stuart A. Snodgrass, Walt J. Quigley Meier, Waleed Abdalati, Ron Weaver, Mary Jo Brodzik, Richard Free Your data!, Sophie Engle, James Shearer, Michael Ogawa, Armstrong, Jennifer Brennan, Carol Boquist, Brian Krupp, Jarrett Steve Haroz and Kwan-Liu Ma Cohen, Michael Starobin, Mike Velle, Tom Bridgman, Randall Jones, Kevin Mahoney, Marte Newcombe, Lori Perkins, Eric Concise: a responsive data overview for small spaces, Kim Rees Sokolowsky Information at your fingertips: exploring the US Census Data, Natural Neighbor Based Scattered Data Interpolation, Tom Mike Sips, Jörn Schneidewind, Daniel Keim, Stephen C. North Bobach, Martin Bertram, Georg Umlauf Visual discovery of patterns in census data, Zaixian Xie, Room Acoustic Visualization and Auralization, Eduard Deines, Charudatta Wad, Do Quyen Nguyen, Qingguang Cui, Di Yang, Frank Michel, Martin Bertram, Hans Hagen, Falko Kuester Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rudensteiner

2003 San Diego Wildfires, Atul Nayak, Evan Morikawa, Hans- VAST 2006 CONTEST RESULTS Werner Braun First place, Corporate Category: Applied Analysis with nSpace Illustrative Visualization of Hurricane Katrina, Alark Joshi, Jesus and GeoTime, Pascale Proulx, Lynn Chien, Adam Bodnar, Kaleb Caban, Penny Rheingans, Lynn Sparling Ruch and William Wright Towards Photorealistic Rendering of Astrophysical & Cosmo- Second Place, Corporate Category: DECIDE™, Russell A. Lanke- logical Simulation Data: Proto-Star ionizes surrounding Proto- nau, M. Andrew Eick, Alexander Decherd, Maxim Khailo, Phil Galaxy, Ralf Kaehler, John Wise, Tom Abel, Hans-Christian Hege Paris, and Jesse Fugitt Parallel Volume Rendering of a High-Fidelity Unstructured-Grid First Place, Student Category: Visualizing Relationships in a Fire Simulation, Kenneth Moreland, Sheldon Tiesze Diverse Data Collection, Summer Adams and Kanupriya Singhal EPSS-GE: An Earth and Planetary System Science Game Engine, Gloria Brown-Simmons, Falko Kuester, Christopher Knox, So VIS 2006 CONTEST RESULTS Yamaoka First Place: California Streaming, Jens Schneider, Jens Krüger, Kai Bürger, Rüdiger Westermann Monday-Tuesday, Frederick/Columbia Symposium Demos Honorable Mention: Visualization of the Terashake Dataset, Ralf Sondershaus, Wolfgang Straßer The CanopyView Visualization Project - KeyVariable-Driven Ecology Visualization - In Java over Visualization Toolkit (VTK), Honorable Mention: 2006 IEEE Visualization Design Contest, Judith Cushing, Lee Zeman, Michael Finch, Nalini Nadkarni, John van der Zwaag Anne Fiala

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