VisWeek 2012 is the premier forum for advances in scientific and information visualization. The event-packed week brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to explore their shared interests in tools, techniques, and technology. We invite you to participate in IEEE Visualization, IEEE Information Visualization, and IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology by sharing your research, insights, experience, and enthusiasm.

In 2012, IEEE VisWeek comes to the beautiful city of Seattle, Washington. Downtown Seattle is easily walkable and waiting to be explored. Shopping, dining, arts and visitor attractions are within steps of hotels and inns. The city is surrounded by pristine waterways, two mountain ranges and three national parks. To the west lies the only temperate rain forest in the continental U.S. To the east, a world-class wine region. http://www.visitseattle.org/Home.aspx

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VisWeek 2012 Deadlines:
**subject to slight changes
February 2012 Contest/Challenge sample data released. http://viscontest.sdsc.edu/2012
March 21, 2012 Paper Abstracts (mandatory)
March 31, 2012 Full Paper Submissions
April 28, 2012 Tutorial Proposals Workshop Proposals
July 31, 2012 VisContest Submissions

VisWeek 2012 General Chairs
Richard May, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
William Pike, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

VisWeek 2012 Conference Chairs
(vis) Russell M. Taylor II, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
(infovis) Frank van Ham, IBM Research
(vast) Jonathan C. Roberts, Bangor University

VisWeek 2012 Paper Chairs
(vis) Gerik Scheuermann, Universität Leipzig
(vis) Klaus Mueller, Stony Brook University
(vis) David Laidlaw, Brown University
(infovis) Chris Weaver, University of Oklahoma
(infovis) Jason Dykes, City University London
(vast) Matthew Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
(vast) Giuseppe Santucci, University of Roma