VIS Preliminary Program

Program Week at a Glance

Below is a draft schedule the conference. Additional details for the events are available on their webpages, and more detailed information will be available the virtual VIS website as the conference nears. Note: details and specific times may change as we adjust for late-breaking conflicts and constraints.

Daily sessions are four blocks per day, each 75 minutes. There are breaks for coffee from 10:15-10:45am and 3:15-3:45pm. A lunch break runs from 12:00-2:00pm each day. Regular day programming ends at 5:00pm, with after hours programming beginning after short breaks.


Saturday, October 21, 2023

9:00 AM-5:00 PM AEDT (UTC+11)
Doctoral Colloquium (Invite only event)


Sunday, October 22, 2023

9:00 AM-12:00 PM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Room 101-102: Visualization Analysis and Design (Tutorial)
  • Room 103: EnergyVis 2023: 3rd Workshop on Energy Data Visualization (Workshop)
  • Room 104: Visualization for Pandemic and Emergency Responses Workshop (Vis4PandEmRes) (Workshop)
  • Room 105: MERCADO: Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online (Workshop)
  • Room 106: A Hands-on TTK Tutorial for Absolute Beginners (Tutorial)
  • Room 110: NLP4Vis: Natural Language Processing for Information Visualization (Tutorial)
  • Room 111-112: VAST Challenge (Contest)

2:00 PM-5:00 PM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Room 101-102: VizSec (Associated Event)
  • Room 103: 5th Workshop on Urban Data Visualization (CityVis) (Workshop)
  • Room 104: VAHC: 14th Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (Workshop)
  • Room 105: Sixth Workshop on Visualization for Communication (VisComm) (Workshop)
  • Room 106: TopoInVis: Topological Data Analysis and Visualization (Workshop)
  • Room 110: NLVIZ Workshop: Exploring Research Opportunities for Natural Language, Text, and Data Visualization (Workshop)
  • Room 111-112: Demystifying Color in Your Data Visualizations (Tutorial)

Monday, October 23, 2023

9:00 AM-12:00 PM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Room 101-102: Mining Useful Information Via Complex Network Visualization (Tutorial)
  • Room 104: EduVis: Workshop on Visualization Education, Literacy, and Activities (Workshop)
  • Room 105: Visualization for Social Good (Workshop)
  • Room 106: LDAV: 13th IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (Associated Event)
  • Room 109: VisInPractice (Associated Event)
  • Room 110: (Vis + Prov) x Domain: Workshop on Visualization and Provenance Across Domains (Workshop)
  • Room 111-112: Bio+MedVis Challenges (Contest)

2:00 PM-5:00 PM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Room 101-102: TAURUS: a unified framework for creating graph layouts (Tutorial)
  • Room 103: Transparent Practices for Quantitative Empirical Research (Tutorial)
  • Room 104: Design Sprints for Visualization (Tutorial)
  • Room 105: VIS4DH: 8th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities (Workshop)
  • Room 106: VDS: Visualization in Data Science Symposium (Associated Event)
  • Room 109: VisxVision: Workshop on Novel Directions in Vision Science and Visualization Research (Workshop)
  • Room 110: alt.VIS 2023 (Workshop)
  • Room 111-112: SciVis Contest (Contest)

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

8:45 AM-10:30 AM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Plenary 1: VIS Welcome (8:45am-9:00am)
  • Plenary 1: VGTC Awards (9:00am-9:45am)
  • Plenary 1: Test of Time Awards (9:45am-10:30am)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Plenary 1: VIS Keynote (11:00am-12:00pm)

2:00 PM-3:10 PM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Plenary 1: VIS Opening (2:00pm-2:20pm)
  • Plenary 1: ACC Summary (2:20pm-2:30pm)
  • Plenary 1: Best Papers 1 (2:30pm-3:10pm) (VIS Full Papers Session)

3:40 PM-4:30 PM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Plenary 1: Best Papers 2 (3:40pm-4:30pm) – Includes Best Short Paper (VIS Full Papers Session)

4:45 PM-6:15 PM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Plenary 1: VIS Poster Session (4:45pm-6:15pm) – Includes all Associated Event Posters – Exhibit Hall Location: Foyer (Plenary Session)

6:00 PM-8:00 PM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Plenary 1: VISAP Opening Reception (6:00pm-8:00pm) – Art Exhibit Location: Library at the Docks (Plenary Session)

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

9:00 AM-10:15 AM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Room 103: Image and Video (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 104: Perception / Evaluation (VIS Short Papers Session)
  • Room 105: Storytelling (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 106: High Dimensional Data (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 109: VIS for Data Scientists (VIS Full Papers Session)

10:45 AM-12:00 PM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Room 101+102: What is a Visual Analytics contribution, and how is it changing? (VIS Panel)
  • Room 103: VISAP Session 1 (Associated Event)
  • Room 104: CG&A: Systems, Techniques, and Applications (Invited Partnership Presentations)
  • Room 105: Layout Algorithms (Full+Short) (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 106: LLMs and Generative Models (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 109: Trust and Bias (VIS Full Papers Session)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Room 105: VIS Town Hall

2:00 PM-3:15 PM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Room 103: Dashboards & Multiple Views (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 104: Scientific Visualization (Short) (VIS Short Papers Session)
  • Room 105: Grammars (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 106: Immersive Analytics and Virtual Reality (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 109: Visualization for Humanities and Social Sciences (Full+Short) (VIS Full Papers Session)

3:45 PM-5:00 PM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Room 101+102: Establishing and Thriving in an Academic Career (VIS Panel)
  • Room 104: CoVID-19 / Bioinformatics / Visual Analytics (VIS Short Papers Session)
  • Room 105: Graph Visualization (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 106: Education and Assessment (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 109: VIS for ML (VIS Full Papers Session)

6:00 PM-10:00 PM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Plenary 1: VIS Banquet (6:00pm-10:00pm) – Location: Grazelands and Melbourne Planetarium Screenings – Shows at 6, 6:45, and 7:30pm – Transport on your own / via Public Transport Victoria (PTV) using your Myki card (provided at registration) (Plenary Session)

Thursday, October 26, 2023

9:00 AM-10:15 AM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Room 103: Visualization for the Physical Sciences (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 104: Clustering & Scatterplots (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 105: Color and Accessibility (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 106: Sports and Spatial Management (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 109: Natural Language (VIS Full Papers Session)

10:45 AM-12:00 PM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Room 101+102: Visualization for spatial single-cell atlases (Application Spotlight)
  • Room 103: VISAP Session 2 (Associated Event)
  • Room 104: Applications / Design (VIS Short Papers Session)
  • Room 105: Visualization Design and User Experience (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 106: Machine Learning for Volume Visualization (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 109: Evaluation (VIS Full Papers Session)

2:00 PM-3:15 PM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Room 103: CG&A: Theory and Evaluation plus ISMAR/VR (Invited Partnership Presentations)
  • Room 104: Information Visualization / Interaction (VIS Short Papers Session)
  • Room 105: Perception (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 106: Topology and Morse Theory (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 109: ML for VIS (VIS Full Papers Session)

3:45 PM-5:00 PM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Room 101+102: How should VIS4ML Redefine Itself in the Rapid Evolution of AI? (VIS Panel)
  • Room 104: Time Series Data (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 105: Medical and Biomedical Applications (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 106: Topology Applications (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 109: Situated Analytics and Augmented Reality (Full+Short) (VIS Full Papers Session)

Friday, October 27, 2023

9:00 AM-10:15 AM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Room 103: Scientific Visualization (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 104: Machine Learning / Language Models / Theory (VIS Short Papers Session)
  • Room 105: GeoVis (VIS Full Papers Session)
  • Room 109: Journalism & the Public (VIS Full Papers Session)

10:45 AM-12:00 PM AEDT (UTC+11)

  • Room 105+106: VIS Capstone (10:45am-11:45am) (Plenary Session)
  • Room 105+106: VIS Closing (11:45am-12:00pm) (Plenary Session)

Program Co-Chairs

  • Gautam Chaudhary, Alcon
  • Joshua A. Levine, University of Arizona
  • Lane Harrison, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Kate Isaacs, University of Utah

Email: program@ieeevis.org