College Station is home of the main campus of Texas A&M University. The city's name comes from university's location along a railroad. College Station and Bryan together make up the Bryan-College Station metropolitan area, the sixteenth largest metropolitan area in Texas with 203,371 people. The city is located within the most populated region of Texas, near three of the 10 largest cities in the United States - Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. For more information about the city see wikipedia .

May is one of the best times to visit College Station. Average temperature in May is approximately 24 C (75 F), which is relatively warm therefore it is comfortable to walk during May.


The main conferences space will be the Geren Auditorium at the building B of Architecture complex. The Geren Auditorium is state-or-art conference facility that includes a large projection space and more than 100 chairs. Each chair has its own power outlet and internet connection. In addition, the room has Wireless connection. In front of Geren Auditorium, there is a large space that can be used as an exhibition space for posters. This large room can also be used to serve lunch.

In addition to Geren auditorium, Department of Visualization has two large classrooms equipped with state-of-art projection facilities including HDR projectors. Moreover, Computer Science Department has another medium-size auditorium that can be used for parallel sessions. All these classrooms and auditorium can be sued for parallel sessions. College of Architecture also has a Gallery space that can be used as a sculpture exhibition space for the conference.

We are also planning to use in the interdisciplinary space available for Visualization and Computer Science researchers in the new Emerging Technologies and Economic Development Interdisciplinary (ETED) Building. The construction of this $104 million dollar building started in 2008 and expected to be completed in Fall of 2011. The interdisciplinary space in ETED Building will contains four laboratories and multiple collaborative research spaces including a computational science visualization area and five meeting rooms.