From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Ivan Poupyrev
[poup@csl.sony.co.jp]
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 12:42 AM
To: 3D UI list
Subject: Fw: Fwd - The First Young Investigator's Forum in Virtual
Reality

Apologies for cross-posting.  Gerry Kim from POSTECH asked to
distribute this  message and it seems people on the 3DUI list might
be interested. Please, respond directly to Gerry.

> -----------------------
> Dear Fellow VR researchers around the world,
>
> Hello, Please forgive my bluntness of sending this mail.
>
> My name is Gerry Kim, an asst. prof. of computer science at Pohang Univ.
Science
> and Technology.  I am sending this mail to introduce to you a small VR
workshop
> designed for promising graduate students.  We are looking to invite only about
> 10 PhD students around the world (preferably those who have finished their
> proposal, but will consider other PhD students or fresh (within 6 mo) PhD's)
to
> Korea (in late december) and have them present and discuss their ideas about
> future of VR, VR related technologies or next gen. media.
>
> Best of all, those studetns who get picked, will be provided with all
> travel/board expense to Korea !
> Applicants are asked to submit an extended abstract by Oct 1st (which we may
> relax a bit).    It will be reviewed by a small
> but prestegious program committee.  For details, please  visit the workshop
> homepage at http://www.vrrc.org/yvr2001
>
> Please spread the word, and encourage your students (or students whom you
know)
> to apply.
> I believe it will be a good opportunity for the upcoming young reseachers of
VR
> ...
>
> Thank you,
>
> Gerry Kim, POSTECH, Korea
> www.postech.ac.kr/~gkim
> vr.postech.ac.kr
>
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>
> The First Young Investigator's Forum in Virtual Reality
> (YoungVR, 2001)
>
> December 18-20, 2001
>
> KAIST, Daejon, Korea
>
> Call for Participation
>
> The Virtual Reality Research Center (VRRC) in Korea
> (http://vrrc.kaist.ac.kr/) invites advanced graduate students (or any
> individual with similar credentials) around the world to participate in a
> forum to discuss the future of virtual reality. VRRC, established within
> KAIST, is one of the highly prestegious government supported centers in
> Korea that specializes in the VR research. This year's forum will mark its
> first occurrence, and will also be first of its kind, specifically
> inviting only advanced graduate students for free form discussion on the
> future directions of virtual reality and related technologies. The forum
> hopes to provide an execellent opportunity for the young researchers of VR
> around the world to present, discuss, and cultivate new ideas.
>
> An extended abstract of 2000 words are solicited on all aspects of virtual
> reality, in particular on the future visions of VR and related
> technologies. The main contributor of the submission must be a graduate
> student, preferably who has finished one's research proposal toward one's
> PhD degree. The nature of the forum is designed to be small-scale, free
> form, higly interactive, and intensive, thus we will only accept around 10
> submissions. All accepted participants will be provided with all or
> partial expenses for travel and lodging (roundtrip plane tickets to Korea,
> and room/meal). For detailed format of the forum, visit the forum web site
> at vrrc.kaist.ac.kr/yvr2001. The first two days will be consisted of
> presentations and discussion rounds and during the final day, a social
> event is planned as an opportunity for the participants to get to know one
> another more.
>
> Submission deadline for the extended abstracts is October 1, 2001 with
> notification of acceptance by November 1, 2001. Please submit abstracts
> (or inquiries) to: Gerry J. Kim at POSTECH, Korea (gkim@postech.ac.kr).
> The official language is English.
>
>
>
> The main contributor of the submission must be a graduate student,
> preferably who has finished one's research proposal toward one's PhD
> degree. The nature of the forum is designed to be small-scale, free form,
> higly interactive, and intensive, thus we will only accept around 10
> submissions. All accepted participants will be provided with all or
> partial expenses for travel and lodging (roundtrip plane tickets to Korea,
> and room/meal).  The submitted abstract will be reviewed by a
> distinguished international panel for selection.  The official language is
> English.
>
>
> An extended abstract of 2000 words are solicited on all aspects of virtual
> reality, in particular on the future visions of VR and related
> technologies.
>
> Submission deadline for the extended abstracts is October 1, 2001 with
> notification of acceptance by November 1, 2001.
>
> Please submit abstracts (or inquiries) by e-mail to: Gerry J. Kim at
> POSTECH, Korea (gkim@postech.ac.kr).
>
> The official language is English.
>
>
> Program Chair: Prof. Gerard Jounghyun Kim, POSTECH, Korea
>
> Committee Member:
> Prof. Frederick Brooks, University of North Carolina
> Prof. Larry Hodges, Georgia Institute of Technology
> Jerry Isdale, Hughes Research Laboratories / VR News
> Kenji Mase, ATR, Japan
> Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
> Kwangyeon  Wohn, KAIST, Korea.
>
>