From - Thu Oct 23 22:10:49 2003
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:53:59 +0200
Subject: Call for Abstracts: NSF Lake Tahoe Workshop on Collaborative
  Virtual Reality and Visualization 2003

NSF Lake Tahoe Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Reality and Visualization
2003

October 26-28, 2003
Granlibakken Conference Center & Resort
Tahoe City, California

*** CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ***

Ruzena Bajcsy, Markus Gross, Bernd Hamann, Ken Joy, and I will be
co-organizing a two-day workshop on "Collaborative Virtual Reality and
Visualization." The main focus of this workshop is collaborative virtual
reality and its application to large-scale data set and sensor network data
visualization. Areas of particular interest include virtual reality
software, hardware, and 3D interaction methods as well as applications in
all areas of interactive data visualization. Contributed talks will be
selected from a set of one-page abstracts submitted to the Workshop and
Program Co-Chairs.

Preliminary information about the workshop can be found at the web site

     http://graphics.cs.ucdavis.edu/CVRV2003

and in the attached flyer. (The web site will be updated whenever new
information becomes available.)

At this point, we are planning to have approximately 40 attendees. We hope
to attract researchers from universities, including a small number of
post-doctoral fellows and advanced Ph.D. students; industry; and national
laboratories. (Feel free to inform appropriate post-docs and/or Ph.D.
students at your institution about this workshop.)

The workshop is co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation. We plan to
invite four invited speakers and we will contribute to the expenses of a
limited number of presenting post-docs and advanced Ph.D. students.

The workshop will begin on Sunday, October 26 (starting in the afternoon)
and will end on Tuesday, October 28 (after lunch). (This is the weekend
right after the IEEE Visualization 2003 conference.) The workshop will be
held at the Granlibakken Conference Center in Tahoe City, CA --- right next
to Lake Tahoe.

We ask you to NOT distribute this e-mail beyond your own research group at
your institution.

We know that this workshop is of interest to you and hope that you will
consider submitting an abstract.

Deadline and Instructions for Submitting Abstracts
--------------------------------------------------

A one-page abstract is due by Monday, September 1, 2003, to be sent by
e-mail, in plain ASCII text or .pdf to Oliver Staadt
(staadt@cs.ucdavis.edu). All abstracts must include the names of all
contributing co-authors, the title of the proposed talk, and the complete
physical and electronic addresses, as well as telephone and fax numbers, of
the corresponding primary author. The body of the abstract should not exceed
800 words.

The Workshop and Program Co-Chairs will announce their acceptance decision
by Monday, September 15, 2003. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited
to submit an extended six-page abstract in .pdf or .ps format to be included
in the on-line electronic workshop proceedings by Monday, October 13, 2003.
For questions please contact any of the five Workshop Co-Chairs and check
the workshop web site for updated information.


Sincerely,

Ruzena Bajcsy, Markus Gross, Bernd Hamann, Ken Joy, Oliver Staadt
Workshop Co-Organizers and Co-Chairs