This meeting is a part of the interdisciplinary research theme DATA, hosted by the Pufendorf Institute at Lund University. This workshop will explore how Virtual Reality (VR) technology can change the way in which researchers interact with data. In addition to traditional talks, we have devoted plenty of time for discussion and hands-on demonstrations at a large number of VR setups.

Welcome!

Coffee and lunch will be provided for all registrants.

Please email oscar.agertz@astro.lu.se immediately if you have any allergies/dietary requirements etc.

Location: Room C121, LUX building, Lund University

09:00 - 10:00 Oscar Agertz & Mattias Wallergård: The marriage of Astrophysics and Interaction Design - using Virtual Reality technology in big data science.

10:00 - 11:30 Hands-on Virtual Reality (VR) demos + coffee.

Questions to ponder include:

1. Which possibilities do you envision with VR?

2. What are the risks?

3. How would you like to use VR?

11:30-12:30 Lunch + continued demonstrations

12:30-13:30 Panel and audience discussion led by Mattias Wallergård, Oscar Agertz, Nicolo Dell'Unto, Henrik Garde and Shamit Soneji

13:30-14:30 Visualisation in outreach

- Vattenhallen Planeterium (Anna Annarsdottir)

- Wisdome Malmö (Mats Fastrup)

14:30-14:45 Coffee

14:45-15:05 Quick talks

- Mattias Wallergård: Future of VR 

- Stefan Lindgren: TBA

- Florent Renaud: Visulisations in astrophysics

- Diedrick C. Niehorster: Eye-tracking

15:05-15.15 Wrap-up

Visualising the Universe