Exploring Your Universe 2025

Exploring Your Universe (EYU) is UCLA’s premier all-ages science fair and the largest public science outreach event in Los Angeles. Held every year on the first Sunday in November at UCLA’s Court of Sciences, EYU transforms campus into a vibrant hub of discovery, featuring more than 60 interactive science booths, mesmerizing lab tours, planetarium shows, and engaging science talks.

Designed for curious minds of all ages and backgrounds, EYU offers hands-on experiments, immersive exhibits, and unforgettable demonstrations. Previous highlights have included building and launching rockets, exploring UCLA’s world-class Meteorite Gallery, exclusive educational movie screenings, and thought-provoking presentations like “Are We Alone in the Universe?”

Scientific research in America is a public trust — funded by taxpayers, stewarded by institutions, and ultimately owned by the citizens whose investment makes discovery possible. EYU is a wonderful opportunity to see some of that work in action.

Consider donating to support our exploration.

Check out our website: https://exploringyouruniverse.ucla.edu/ for more information.

We are hoping to announce surprises this year! Stay up-to-date with our mailing list.

Keep up with us year-round through the Exploring Your Universe Radio Show!

Follow us on Instagram: EYU (@exploringyouruniverse) • Instagram photos and videos

Cost: Free!

Parking:

1. Parking Structure 2 (719 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024)
2. Parking Structure 8 (405 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095)
3. Parking Structure 9 (540 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095) online payment only

You can pay at the pay station in the structure or download the Parkmobile app and pay on your phone

Note: Parking at UCLA parking structures costs ~$15 (all day).

Pay station is only available for Parking Structures 2 and 8

Parking details are subject to change. We are working on subsidizing parking for all attendees. Stay up-to-date with Parking (and everything else) through our mailing list.

UCLA Parking Online Payment Website

2025 Pioneer Award Recipient,
Professor Terence Tao

We are proud to honor Professor Terence Tao of the UCLA Mathematics Department with the 2025 Pioneer Award for his contributions to science and the community! The ceremony and short presentation by Professor Tao will take place in Young Hall CS50 at 12pm. Please come a few minutes early to save your seat - you do not want to miss this!

Professor Tao was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1975. He has been a professor of mathematics at UCLA since 1999, having completed his PhD under Elias Stein at Princeton in 1996. Tao’s areas of research include harmonic analysis, PDE, combinatorics, and number theory. He has received a number of awards, including the Salem Prize in 2000, the Fields Medal in 2006, the MacArthur Fellowship in 2007, the Crafoord prize in 2012, and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2015. Terence Tao also holds the James and Carol Collins chair in mathematics at UCLA, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Australian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 2020-2024, he served on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.