One of our goals in organizing the Compass activities at the main IEEE VisWeek conference is to support the next generation of visualization researchers by helping connect beginning and advanced researchers from the scientific visualization, information visualization and visual analytics communities.

The Compass activities are open to all the VisWeek'11 participants, regardless of age and affiliation. The activities are organized by the Vis'11 Doctoral Colloquium chairs, who can be reached at doctoral_coll@visweek.org.

To sign up for any of the events below, please use your Compass user name and password, which are included in the conference registration confirmation email. They should be a combination of your confirmation code.

Blind Date Lunch

This is a blind-date lunch system where beginning researchers sign up to go for lunch with three other researchers they have (preferably) not met before. You pay for your own lunch. Please sign up with your name and affiliation.

Meet the Editors

The Editors-in-Chief of five journal venues (TVCG, CG Forum, J Information Visualization, CG&A, J Computing and Visualization in Science) will quantitatively present their journal and answer questions. Questions may also be submitted electronically in advance or during the event.

Lunch with the Leaders

This is a one day event where beginning researchers have an opportunity to go for lunch with leaders of the visualization community. You pay for your own lunch. Please sign up with your name and affiliation.

Meet the Faculty/Postdoc Candidate

This is a two hour poster-style session where graduating students and postdocs going on the job market present their work. Please sign up for a poster slot with your name and affiliation.