call for papers 17th IEEE Visualization Conference Oct 29 - Nov 3, 2006 Baltimore, Maryland, USA Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society VGTC. In cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH. Web: http://vis.computer.org/vis2006 Co-located with Vis 2006 are the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis) and the IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST). Detailed information on InfoVis 2006 (including deadlines) can be found at http://www.infovis.org/infovis/2006/ and on VAST at http://conferences.computer.org/vast/vast2006/ New for 2006: - Final full technical paper deadline is on March 31, 2006 This year the IEEE Visualization proceedings will be published as a special issue of IEEE TVCG. As such we will follow a 2-stage review process that requires an earlier submission deadline - Proceedings of IEEE Information Visualization also become a special issue of IEEE TVCG - Win a free full-conference registration! The 2006 IEEE Visualization Design Contest challenges you to develop a visualization of earthquake data that best answers real questions from real scientists. - The IEEE/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics has been folded into the main conference. Important Deadlines Abstracts Vis Paper: March 21, 2006 Full InfoVis Papers: March 31, 2006 Full Vast Papers: March 31, 2006 Full Vis Paper: March 31, 2006 Tutorial Proposal: April 30, 2006 Panel Proposal: May 31, 2006 Posters: June 30, 2006 Workshop Proposal: June 30, 2006 Interactive Demos: July 31, 2006 Visualization Contest: August 11, 2006 Birds of a Feather: September 15, 2006 Detailed information can be found at the Vis 2006 website at http://vis.computer.org/vis2006 Co-Chairs: Amitabh Varshney, University of Maryland, College Park Baoquan Chen, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities Contact: Amitabh Varshney University of Maryland Department of Computer Science and UMIACS 4407 A. V. Williams Building College Park, MD 20742, USA, email: info@vis.computer.org