The 2nd annual UCLA Virtual Reality for Science workshop

Sunday 25 Oct 2026, 08:00 → 12:30 US/Pacific

1-434 (PAB)

The VR for Science workshop is intended mainly for UCLA undergraduate students. It will take place in PAB 1-434. 

Seating is limited, and you must register (see the link below) in order to attend this event.  

You can see examples of the UCLA VR for science being done at our website https://vr.physics.ucla.edu/

08:00 → 08:30 Light breakfast

Should be in the lobby of PAB. Expect coffee, tea, water, muffins, danish, bagels, fruit.

08:30 → 08:40 Virtual Reality for Science at UCLA: an Overview

Speaker: Prof. Jay Hauser (University of California Los Angeles (US))

UCLA_VR_intro2026-Jay.pdf

UCLA_VR_intro2026-Jay.pptx

08:40 → 08:50 Exploring the CMS Detector and its LHC Data with CMSVR and CEDVR

Speaker: Dr Ansar Iqbal (University of California Los Angeles (US))

08:50 → 09:00 Interacting with E and B fields in Virtual Reality with VR Fields

Speaker: RIN Fudemberg (University of California Los Angeles (US))

3_VRFields_GoogleSlides-Rin.pdf

09:00 → 09:10 Quantum orbitals in VR

Speaker: Andrew Douglas (University of California Los Angeles (US))

4_Quantum_VR-AndrewDouglas.pdf

4_Quantum_VR-AndrewDouglas.pptx

09:10 → 09:30 Scientific multidimensional data displays with ROOTVR

Speaker: Aryan Mosavian-Pour (University of California Los Angeles (US))

5_ROOT_VR_Aryan.pdf

09:30 → 10:20 Demo Session #1

In PAB 1-434:

demo station A (left) - VR Fields (Rin)
demo station B (right) - ROOTVR (Aryan)

In the PAB Lobby:

demo station C (south) - CEDVR (Trevor)
demo station D (middle) - CMSVR (Jay)
demo station E (north) - VR Orbitals (Andrew)

10:20 → 10:40 Visualizing particle interactions with matter with G4VR

Speaker: Benjamin Jobilal (University of California, Los Angeles)

2nd_VR_workshop.pdf

10:40 → 10:50 Simulating proton decay in a Super-K-like detector and visualizing it using G4VR

Speaker: Trevor Waltersdorf (University of California Los Angeles (US))

7_G4VR_Proton_Decay-Trevor.pdf

10:50 → 11:00 Simulating dark matter interactions and visualizing with G4VR

Speaker: Nicholas Farhadian (UCLA)

2026VR_Workshop.pptx

11:00 → 11:20 Plans and ideas for future VR development at UCLA

Speaker: Prof. Jay Hauser (University of California Los Angeles (US))

9_VR_future_plans_and_ideas2026-Jay.pdf

9_VR_future_plans_and_ideas2026-Jay.pptx

11:20 → 12:10 Demo Session #2

In PAB 1-434:

demo station A (left) - Hypercubes (Rin)
demo station B (right) - ROOTVR (Aryan)

In the PAB Lobby:

demo station C (south) - Proton decay in a Super K-like detector (Trevor)
demo station D (middle) - Dark Matter interaction in a liquid Xenon detector (Nicholas)
demo station E (north) - G4 VR (Benjamin)