Keynote

  1. Frank Ruskey, University of Victoria, Canada

  2. Among the most familiar of all visual aids is the Venn diagram. They were introduced by John Venn as an alternative to the diagrams that Euler used in his "Letters to a German Princess". Euler used his diagrams as a tool for understanding and reasoning about syllogisms.

  3. In this talk we will review the history of Venn/Euler diagrams, discuss some of their essential mathematical properties, some of their many uses, some recent results about them, and some of the fundamental Venn/Euler problems that remain to be resolved.

  4. The talk will be lavishly illustrated and accessible to the non-specialist. Among the specific topics to be covered are: What is NOT known about 3-Venn diagrams(!); What is a minimum area Venn diagram?; How do you draw a Venn diagram symmetrically?; and can Venn diagrams be drawn (symmetrically) on the sphere?

Co-chairs

  1. Phil Cox, Dalhousie University, Canada

  2. Andrew Fish, University of Brighton, UK

  3. John Howse, University of Brighton, UK

Programme Committee

  1. Gerry Allwein, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
    Omid Banyasad, IBM Canada
    Dave Barker-Plummer, Stanford University, USA
    Paolo Bottoni, Universita di Roma, La Sapienza, Italy
    Frithjof Dau, SAP Research CEC, Germany
    Brian Gaines, University of Calgary, Canada
    Mateja Jamnik, University of Cambridge, UK
    Alexander Knapp, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany
    Bernd Meyer, Monash University, Australia
    Nathaniel Miller, University of Northern Colorado, USA
    Mark Minas, Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany
    Julia Padberg, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
    Ian Pratt-Hartman, University of Manchester, UK
    Chris Reed, University of Dundee, UK
    Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton, UK
    Nik Swoboda, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
    Simon Thompson, University of Kent, UK

Associated Event

  1. 2009 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing.

Submissions

  1. Submissions should be in ENTCS format, and no longer than 12 pages. Please email submissions in PDF format to the workshop email address and use the first named author's surname as the filename, appended with a number if there is more than one submission from the same author. Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the programme committee. Publication of the proceedings will be in ENTCS or similar, and authors of top-ranked papers will be invited to submit expanded versions for journal publication.

Dates

  1. Submission: June 22, 2009 EXTENDED TO June 29, 2009, but please email an abstract as soon as possible

  2. Notification: July 20, 2009 August 3, 2009

  3. Final papers: August 3, 2009 August 14, 2009

Downloads

  1. Letter-size PDF poster
    Plain text call-for-papers

Previous Workshop

  1. VLL 2007, Coeur d'Alène, Idaho, September 2007

For further information

  1. Please email VLL@cs.dal.ca



Last updated: Thursday, September 10, 2009