The 13th Eurographics / IEEE vgtc Symposium on Visualization in Bergen, Norway

The University of Bergen (and it's Visualization Research Group at the Department of Informatics) has been entrusted to organize Europe's most important and biggest annual visualization conference in 2011 in Bergen, Norway: EuroVis 2011, i.e., the 13th Jo int Eurographics / IEEE vgtc Symposium on Visualization. The main objective of EuroVis is to foster greater exchange between visualization researchers and practitioners, and to draw more researchers in Europe to enter this rapidly growing area of researc h. The conference will contribute to the thrilling development of the still relatively new scientific field of visualization (which draws an increasing amount of attention to it, recently). The three co-chairs of the conference (from Harvard University in MA, USA, from Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands, and from Bergen, Norway) are all three highly respected persons in the visualization research community, who all have organized at one of these most important events before. Scientifically put, there is nothing in the way for making EuroVis 2011 another successful conference, as recently also in Lisbon (2006), Norrköping (2007), Eindhoven (2008), Berlin (2009), and Bordeaux (this year, 2010). The Visualization Research Group at the UiB D epartment of Informatics has recently received a lot of very positive acknowledgment. Within a relatively short time, a group of 14 researchers was established, working on a variety of projects with support from NFR, the European Commission, and others. Helwig Hauser, i.e., the ''local'' co-chair of the conference and the applicant here, has about 15 years of experience in the field of visualization and has organized a couple of conferences before, including, also, an earlier ''version'' of this confere nce in 1999 (in Vienna, Austria).