IDEAS Trainees Win 2018 Computational Research Day Visualization Competition

This week, winners were announced for Northwestern University’s 2018 Computational Research Day Visualization Competition.  Two IDEAS Trainees were among the three entrants awarded.

The title of “Best Animation” went to Alex Gurvich, for his Stellar Feedback vs. Galaxy Formation visualization. Alex’s project “presents a high resolution animation of a simulation of stellar feedback and resulting galaxy formation with three varied results side by side”.

Vicky Chuqiao Yang was awarded the title of “Best Interactive” for her Visualizing the US Congress
visualization. Vicky’s project “presents and interactive web page that allows users to step through 113 terms of US Congress to track the evolution of ideology based on voting patterns”.

Both Vicky and Alex began developing their winning projects while participating in the IDEAS Program’s Visualizations Focused Summer School.

View all the 2017 FSS Projects here.