Virtual Reality for Science

Sunday 9 Nov 2025, 09:00 → 14:30 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 (in-person only) and will not be broadcast over Zoom. 

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/

09:00 → 09:30 Light breakfast

09:30 → 09:40 Virtual Reality for Science at UCLA: an Overview

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

UCLA_VR_intro - Jay.pdf

09:40 → 09:50 Exploring the CMS Detector and its Large Hadron Collider Data with CMSVR and VRSpy

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

11_9 UCLA VR Workshop.pdf

11_9 UCLA VR Workshop.pptx

09:50 → 10:00 Electric fields in full VR with VR Fields, Hypercubes, and Data VR

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

Physics VR Workshop (VRFields Presentation) .pptx

10:00 → 10:10 UCLA plans for VR in data analysis and particle interaction simulations

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

VR for data analysis and particles sims.pdf

10:10 → 10:20 Scientific multidimensional data displays with ROOT VR

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

ROOT_VR_Talk_at_UCLA_PVR.pdf

10:30 → 11:30 Demo Session #1

1-434 has Stations A (left) and B (right)
PAB Lobby has Stations C (south), D (middle), and E (north)

Demos: VR Fields (Omri&Rin), Hypercubes (Aryan), CMS VR (Andrew&Jay), VR Spy (Nathan &Nicholas), Data VR (Benjamin)

11:30 → 11:40 Visualizing particle interactions with matter with G4 VR

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

G4VR-11.08.25.pdf

G4VR-11.08.25.pdf

G4VR-11.08.25.pptx

11:40 → 11:50 Simulating dark matter detection with GEANT4 and G4 VR

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

Simulating Dark Matter Detection with GEANT4 and G4VR.pdf

Simulating Dark Matter Detection with GEANT4 and G4VR.pdf

Simulating Dark Matter Detection with GEANT4 and G4VR.pptx

11:50 → 12:00 Ideas for future VR development at UCLA and discussion

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

VR future ideas.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Demo Session #2

1-434 has Stations A (left) and B (right)
PAB Lobby has Stations C (south), D (middle), and E (north)

Demos: G4 VR (Benjamin), ROOT VR (Aryan&Rin), CMS VR (Andrew), VR Spy (Nathan&Omri), G4VR-DM (Nicholas&Jay)