TUW Vision 2025+ >> interesting lectures to structure and vision the future of the Vienna University of Technology 2015 and beyond

We are seeking for a highly motivated PhD candidate in the field of Visual Analytics, Information Visualization, visual Data Mining and Interaction Design in the Laura Bassi Center of Expertise (LBC), Centre for Visual Analytics Science and Technology (CVAST), which is established at the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria.

Since middle November 2014, IEG/CVAST member Bilal Alsallakh is a visiting Research Fellow in the Visual Computing Group at Harvard University, led by Prof.

As of November 2014, Dr. Tim Lammarsch is an Assistant Professor at Modul University Vienna.

Invited Lecture: Typografie und Visualisierung

Florian Halm 

Donau-Universität Krems
Fakultät für Wirtschaft und Globalisierung

Theresia Gschwandtner presented our Visual Analytics research @ EPILOG

Description: The symposium features 4 high-quality speakers, who will each give a 50 minute talk on her/his thoughts about the future development of her/his area, followed by a 30 minute question & answer period.

The IEG group is participating at the IEEE VIS 2014 conference on visualization, to take place in Nov 9 - 14, 2014 in Paris.

Silvia Miksch was invited to the annual conference of the German Informatics Society (INFORMATIK 2014) as one of the  keynote speakers at the workshop on Big Data Visual Computing.

Her talk was about:

Visual Analytics meet Big Data: Challenges and Opportunities

The workshop took place in Stuttgart - Germany, on 22-23 September 2014.

On September 3rd 2014, CVAST / IEG member Bilal Alsallakh successfully defended his PhD thesis titled:

"Visual Analytics of Large Homogeneous Data - Categorical, Set-typed, and Classification Data".