ST1: Biomedical Visualization

Wednesday, June 8th, 8:50-10:30 in Lower Room 1
Chair: Kai Lawonn

A Survey of Perceptually Motivated 3D Visualization of Medical Image Data

Bernhard Preim, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Alexandra Baer, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Douglas Cunningham, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
Tobias Isenberg, AVIZ-INRIA, Saclay, France
Timo Ropinski, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Visual Analysis of Biomolecular Cavities: State of the Art

Michael Krone, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Barbora Kozlikova, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Norbert Lindow, Zuse Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Marc Baaden, Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, CNRS, UPR9080, France
Daniel Baum, Zuse Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Julius Parulek, University of Bergen, Department of Informatics, Norway
Hans-Christian Hege, Zuse Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Ivan Viola, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

ST2: Distributed Visualization

Wednesday, June 8th, 11:00-12:40 in Lower Room 1
Chair: Jens Kruger

State-of-the-Art Report in Web-based Visualization

Finian Mwalongo, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Michael Krone, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Guido Reina, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

In Situ Methods, Infrastructures, and Applications on High Performance Computing Platforms

Andrew Bauer, Kitware, Inc., Clifton Park, NY, USA
Hasan Abbasi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
James Ahrens, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Hank Childs, University of Oregon, USA
Berk Geveci, Kitware, Inc., Clifton Park, NY, USA
Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Kenneth Moreland, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Patrick O'Leary, Kitware, Inc., Clifton Park, NY, USA
Venkatram Vishwanath, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Brad Whitlock, Intelligent Light, USA
Wes Bethel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

ST3: Applications

Wednesday, June 8th, 14:00-15:40 in Lower Room 1
Chair: Aidan Slingby

A Survey on Visual Analysis Approaches for Financial Data

Sungahn Ko, UNIST, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of
Isaac Cho, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA
Shehzad Afzal, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Calvin Yau, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Junghoon Chae, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Kaethe Beck, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Abish Malik, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Yun Jang, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
Bill Ribarsky, Charlotte Visualization Center; UNCC, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
David Ebert, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

The State of the Art in Cartograms

Sabrina Nusrat, University of Arizona, USA
Stephen Kobourov, University of Arizona, USA

ST4: Feature Extraction for Scalar and Vector Fields

Thursday, June 9th, 8:50-10:30 in Lower Room 1
Chair: Ingrid Hotz

A Survey of Topology-based Methods in Visualization

Christian Heine, TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Heike Leitte, TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Mario Hlawitschka, HTWK Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Federico Iuricich, University of Maryland, College Park (MD), USA
Leila De Floriani, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
Gerik Scheuermann, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Hans Hagen, TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Christoph Garth, TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

State of the Art in Transfer Functions for Direct Volume Rendering

Patric Ljung, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden
Jens Krueger, CoViDAG, University of Duisburg-Essen
Eduard Gröller, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Charles Hansen, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, USA
Markus Hadwiger, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Anders Ynnerman, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden

ST5: Information Visualization Techniques

Thursday, June 9th, 16:10-17:50 in Lower Room 1
Chair: Anna Vilanova

Matrix Reordering Methods for Table and Network Visualization

Michael Behrisch, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Benjamin Bach, Microsoft Research, Inria Joint Centre, Saclay, France
Nathalie Henry Riche, Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, USA
Tobias Schreck, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA, Saclay, France

Formalizing Emphasis in Information Visualization

Kyle Hall, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Charles Perin, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Peter Kusalik, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Carl Gutwin, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada