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 (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/

08:00 → 08:30 Light breakfast

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

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

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 E and B fields and a magnetic bottle with VR Fields

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

09:00 → 09:10 Quantum orbitals in VR

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

09:10 → 09:30 Scientific multidimensional data displays with ROOT VR

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

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

10:20 → 10:40 Visualizing particle interactions with matter with G4 VR

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

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))

10:50 → 11:00 Simulating dark matter interactions and visualizing with G4 VR

Speaker: Nicholas Farhadian (UCLA)

11:00 → 11:20 Ideas for future VR development at UCLA and discussion

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

11:20 → 12:10 Demo Session #2

In PAB 1-434:

demo station A (left) - G4 VR (Benjamin)
demo station B (right) - ROOTVR (Aryan)

In the PAB Lobby:

demo station C (south) - Proton decay (Trevor)
demo station D (middle) - Dark Matter (Nicholas)
demo station E (north) - what (who)