CALL FOR PARTICIPATION PacificVis 2011: The 4th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium Hong Kong, China March 1-4, 2011 Conference Co-Chairs Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart Wenping Wang, The University of Hong Kong Organizers Yi-King Choi, The University of Hong Kong Pedro Sander, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PacificVis is an IEEE sponsored international visualization symposium held in the Asia-Pacific region, with the objective to foster greater exchange between visualization researchers and practitioners, and to draw more researchers in the Asia-Pacific region to enter this rapidly growing area of research. The former name of PacificVis was APVIS (Asia-Pacific Symposium on Information Visualization). This new venue has an expanded scope to include all areas of visualization, and a sponsorship to allow us to achieve a more wide-spread impact. The 4th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis 2011) will be held in Hong Kong, a splendid mixture of tradition and modernity as well as a center of business in the world. [Early registration deadline: Feb 11, 2011] On-line registration is now available at http://i.cs.hku.hk/~pvis2011/attending/registration.html and the conference program can be found at http://i.cs.hku.hk/~pvis2011/attending/program.html ------------------- HIGHLIGHTS ------------------- * 3 Keynote speeches * 26 technical papers * 19 poster papers * 1 panel discussion * 2 tutorials ----------------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ----------------------------------- * Arie Kaufman, Stony Brook University, USA * Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California at Davis, USA * Ulrik Brandes, University of Konstanz, Germany ----------- PANEL ----------- Visualization Research in Asia Pacific Panelist: * Issei Fujishiro, Keio University * Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney * Tung-Ju Hsieh, National Taipei University of Technology * Shixia Liu, Microsoft Research Asia * Qunzheng Peng, Zhejiang University * Huamin Qu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology * Jinwook Seo, Seoul National University