[General] CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - vizNET Uses of Visualization Showcase

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - vizNET Uses of Visualization Showcase All those working in the area of visualization are invited to submit work for the vizNET Uses of Visualization Showcase. The goal is to disseminate good practice and provide stimulation to users and developers of visualization in all application domains. This is the third year of this Showcase. Showcase participants from previous years: Last year the competition was won by Dr Lakshmi Sastry & her team at STFC e-Science Centre for Data exploration using remote commodity visualization cluster and won the year before by Dr Nick Holliman and his colleagues, at the University of Durham for Cosmic cookery: visualizing galaxy formation using observed and simulated data. Other notable participants and runners-up include: So you think you can design a jet engine by Prof Philip Withers and his team from the University of Manchester, Massive data visualization using real time ray tracing by Dr Steven Parker and Group at University of Utah, Hyperstreamball visualization of second order tensors from Jia Liu of the University of Manchester, Facilitating visualization of large scale data in virtual human atrium simulations by Dr Ian Grimstead and team from Cardiff University and Visualizations of a nuclear pressure vessel by Dr Joanna Leng and colleagues from the Universities of Manchester and Durham. Prize: Selected entries will feature in the vizNET website. The Eurographics UK Chapter (EGUK) will host a session at their annual conference, TP.CG '08 which will be held at the University of Manchester, UK June 9th-11th to showcase the winning entries. EGUK will pay for a full conference ticket - entrance, tutorials, socials and accommodation - for the winning submission. Deadline Friday 14th March 2008 The criteria for the Showcase centre on the usefulness (for example measured by the fresh insight gained in the application domain) and novelty (for example the application of known visualization techniques to new domains, or the application of new techniques to existing domains). Applications are invited from all domains in the arts, sciences and humanities. The Showcase is open to entries from around the world. Judging Criteria: A successful submission will show a significant understanding of the needs and motivations of the users. Fundamental characteristics that the judges will expect to find in a successful submission include: * Innovation * Usability * Usefulness * Degree of finish * Meeting declared aims * Awareness of 'state of the art' * Technical ingenuity Rules for submission: The submission must include details of all the authors and a brief statement (no more than one A4 page) indicating the aims and status of the work Emphasise what is novel about your use of visualization, and provide evidence of the added value that is provided to the application domain. In addition, at least one the following must be included: images from the application showing computer generated graphics; a movie file of the application in use; a runnable executable to demonstrate the application; a reference to a persistent web site. These materials should be supplied electronically either as file attachments in email or uploaded on the vizNET Wiki, http://wiki.viznet.ac.uk/. Submissions should be received by Lakshmi Sastry (m.sastry(a)rl.ac.uk) on or before Friday 14 March 2008. Submissions received after this closing time will not be considered. In addition to the electronic media, each submission should contain the name, address, telephone, FAX, email and affiliation of a contactable submitter, as well as a signed and dated statement indicating willingness to accept the rules of the competition and for vizNET to include the work, if selected, in the vizNET Visualization Showcase web site. Details at http://www.viznet.ac.uk/