Section: New Results

Highlights of the Year

We had a number of highlights this year:

• Jean-Daniel Fekete was General Chair of the IEEE VIS 2014 conference, organized for the first time ever outside of the USA, in Paris, with a record attendance.

• Aviz presented 7 articles at the IEEE VIS 2014 conference, and co-organized 3 workshops.

• Five PhD students defended this year.

• Benjamin Bach was awarded the second price in the IEEE VGTC Doctoral Dissertation Competition for his thesis "Connections, Changes, Cubes: Unfolding Dynamic Networks for Visual Exploration" [10] .

• Yvonne Jansen was awarded the second price for the Gilles Kahn dissertation award for her thesis "Physical and Tangible Information Visualization" [11] .

• Samuel Huron received the best paper honorable mention award at DIS 2014 for the paper “Constructive Visualization” [28] .