Visualizations

Featured Visualizations

Making Galaxies

This high-definition stereoscopic video production is a joint production of the Space Visualization Laboratory and the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. It explores the interplay between observations and simulations and features state of the art scientific visualizations.

Core Sampling the Universe

A series of high definition video shorts featuring University of Chicago Professor Hsiao-Wen Chen.

Visualization Production

Interested in producing visualizations for Adler’s theaters? Please read this first.

Events

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Past Events

SIGGRAPH 2009

A series of high definition videos were presented at SIGGRAPH 2009:

MoonWall
Cosmic Rays
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Quasar Absorption Line Systems

10th Great Lakes Cosmological Workshop

Dates: June 14-16, 2010

The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) at the University of Chicago, and Adler Planetarium hosted the 10^th Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop (GLCW X) from Monday June 14 to Wednesday June 16 in Chicago, IL. As is tradition, the Workshop provided a forum for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and young faculty from the Great Lakes region working on all areas of cosmology and particle-astrophysics. More senior faculty provided useful overviews. The general structure of the workshop included three days of workshops (6 half-day sessions), ending the evening of June 16. The workshop's dinner banquet was held on Monday, June 14, 2010 at the Adler Planetarium.

Learn more about this workshop.

Exploring the Universe Bit by Bit

Dates: April 28-30, 2010

The Adler co-hosted this workshop with the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago.

Learn more about this workshop.