Connecting with the Community

IDRE is committed to sharing knowledge and discoveries in computation made on campus with our partners and the outside community. Many of our events are open to the public and podcasts and video of past lectures are available for viewing. Many visualization projects developed by UCLA faculty and researchers are available for viewing in UCLA's Visualization Portal. The portal hosts more than 4,000 visitors each year. That includes UCLA researchers who go there to work in their disciplines or to present their work to other scholars, university professors who bring their students to get a first-hand look at art and science that they’d otherwise only read about in books, applications developers who work to advance the capabilities of the virtual reality applications and the digital media being used in the Portal, potential grantors, potential UCLA faculty and graduate students, and about students from area K-12 schools.

Above, a group of K-12 students enjoy the Virtual UCLA model in development by the Urban Simulation Team at UCLA
(Bill Jepson, director).