Virtual Reality for Science

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

1-434 (PAB)

1 Virtual Reality for Science at UCLA: an Overview

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

2 Exploring the CMS Detector and its Large Hadron Collider Data with CMSVR and VRSpy

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

3 Electric fields in full VR with VRFields, and Hypercubes

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

4 Visualizing 4, 5, 6... dimensional data in Virtual Reality with DataVR

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

10:00 Coffee Break and Demo Session #1

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

5 Computing preparation needed for VR development

Round-table discussion

6 UCLA plansfor VR in data analysis (ROOT) and particle interaction sims (GEANT4)

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

7 Visualizing particle interactions with matter with G4VR

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

8 Simulating dark matter detection with GEANT4 and G4VR

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

9 Scientific multidimensional data displays in VR with ROOTVR

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

12:00 Lunch Break and Demo Session #2

Demos: VRSpy - Nathan, G4VR - Benjamin

10 Ideas for future VR development at UCLA

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

11 Discussion of Future Directions and Q&A

A round-table discussion.

13:30 Demo Session #3

G4VR for DM - Nicholas, ROOTVR prototyping - Aryan