This year's VAST Challenge has been closed for submissions. A big thanks to all those who participated. We'll see you at VAST in Seattle!

Following the success of the first UKVAC Visual Analytics Summer School (camp) in 2010, Middlesex University will be hosting the second event in this series from 3-8 September, 2012 at their Hendon campus in London. http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/vass/VASS2012/

The Computational Bioscience Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine invites applications for an NLM (NIH) funded post-doctoral fellowship. The successful candidate will conduct interdisciplinary research in biological data visualization and work closely with Dr. Carsten Görg and other faculty and researchers in the Computational Bioscience Program.

The DC is a single-day invitation-only event at the beginning of IEEE VisWeek where Ph.D. students in any visualization field present their proposed dissertation work and receive feedback from leading senior visualization researchers. http://visweek.org/visweek/2012/info/call-participation/doctoral-colloquium

Registration is now open for the VAC Consortium July 31 – August 1 in Arlington, VA.

Chris Johnson has been just awarded the IEEE Charles Babbage Award

University of Leeds has two postdoc openings.. Want to know more?

VizSec 2012 will be held in mid-October as part of VisWeek in Seattle.
When we know the exact date, we will update the web site. Papers are
due July 1. http://www.ornl.gov/sci/vizsec/

VAST Challenge mini-challenge 2 data available for download: http://www.vacommunity.org/vastchallenge2012

DARPA has a new BAA out which includes a significant visualization research component.