Virtual Reality for Science

Sunday 9 Nov 2025, 09:00 → 14:00 US/Pacific

1-434 (PAB)

09:00 → 09:15 Virtual Reality for Science at UCLA: an Overview

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

09:15 → 09:30 Exploring the CMS Detector and its Large Hadron Collider Data with CMSVR and VRSpy

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

09:30 → 09:45 Electric fields in full VR with VRFields, and Hypercubes

Speaker: Nathan Joshua (University of California Los Angeles (US))

09:45 → 10:00 Visualizing 4, 5, 6... dimensional data in Virtual Reality with DataVR

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

10:00 → 10:45 Coffee Break and Demo Session #1

Demos: VRFields - Nathan, Hypercubes - Jay, CMSVR - Andrew

10:45 → 11:00 Computing preparation needed for VR development

Round-table discussion

11:00 → 11:15 UCLA plansfor VR in data analysis (ROOT) and particle interaction sims (GEANT4)

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

11:15 → 11:30 Visualizing particle interactions with matter with G4VR

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

11:30 → 11:45 Simulating dark matter detection with GEANT4 and G4VR

Speaker: Nicholas Farhadian (University of California Los Angeles (US))

11:45 → 12:00 Scientific multidimensional data displays in VR with ROOTVR

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

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch Break and Demo Session #2

Demos: VRSpy - Nathan, G4VR - Benjamin

13:00 → 13:15 Ideas for future VR development at UCLA

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

13:15 → 13:30 Discussion of Future Directions and Q&A

A round-table discussion.

13:30 → 14:00 Demo Session #3

G4VR for DM - Nicholas, ROOTVR prototyping - Aryan