Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:17:04 -0500 (EST) From: Roger Crawfis Subject: Call for VIS 2000 http://www.erc.msstate.edu/conferences/vis00/ ========================================================================= VolViz 2000 Volume Visualization and Graphics Symposium 2000 October 9-10, 2000 Salt Lake City, Utah ========================================================================= Call for Participation The Seventh Volume Visualization Symposium (VolViz00) will be held October 2000 in conjunction with IEEE Visualization '2000 http://www.erc.msstate.edu/conferences/vis00/. Papers containing original work in all areas of volume visualization and graphics are solicited. Of special interest are papers dealing with very large volumes and papers dealing with volume graphics modeling and rendering. ========================================================================= Critical Dates March 31 Papers Due May 30 Notification of acceptance July 15 Final papers due to publisher October 9 Symposium commences ========================================================================= Program Schedule TBA ========================================================================= Submissions The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2000. Final papers will be limited to 8 proceedings pages plus one page of color figures. You may choose to follow the paper format guidelines specified at the ACM SIGGRAPH "Document Preparation for Conference Proceedings http://www.siggraph.org/publications/prep/paper-prep.html". There are two alternative ways to submit a contribution. The preferred method is to submit all your material via e-mail in compressed postscript format to : volviz00@cis.ohio-state.edu. Videos should be in MPEG format and images in JPEG or TIFF. Or, you may choose to send five copies with any accompanying NTSC video to the following postal address : Roger A. Crawfis The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science 2015 Neil Ave. Columbus, OH 43210 (614) 292-2566 ========================================================================= Suggested topics Modeling with volumes Volume manipulation and deformation Voxel representations Hardware-assisted volume rendering PC-based volume graphics Special purpose hardware for volume graphics Interacting with volumetric models Volume rendering of extremely large datasets Compressed volume data Iso-surface extraction Vector field visualization Visualization of multiple related fields Time-varying volume data Volume rendering of curvilinear and irregular grids Applications of volume graphics and volume visualization ========================================================================= Symposium Chair Bill Lorensen, GE Research, lorensen@crd.ge.com Program Co-Chairs Roger Crawfis, The Ohio State University, crawfis@cis.ohio-state.edu Daniel Cohen-Or, Tel Aviv University, daniel@math.tau.ac.il ========================================================================= Program Committee Nick England, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Issei Fujishiro, Ochanomizu University Sarah Gibson, MERL Chris Johnson, University of Utah Arie Kaufman, State University of New York at Stony Brook Ron Kikinis, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis Tom Malzbender, Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories Nelson Max, University of California, Davis Greg Nielson, Arizona State University Hanspeter Pfister, MERL Frits Post, Delft University of Technology Georgios Sakas, Frauenhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Lisa Sobierajski Avila, Kitware, Inc. Roberto Scopigno, CNUCE-CNR Wolfgang Strasser, Universitaet Tuebingen Ulf Tiede, University Hospital Eppendorf, Martinistr (IMDM) Michael Vannier, University of Iowa College of Medicine Peter Williams, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Karel Zuiderveld, Vital Images ========================================================================= Symposium Committee Min Chen, University of Wales, Swansea Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University Claudio Silva, AT&T Research Center ========================================================================= For further information e-mail : volviz00@cis.ohio-state.edu