About Exploring Your Universe

Exploring Your Universe is an annual science festival held on the campus of UCLA. Founded in 2009 by graduate students in UCLA’s Astronomy Division, the event is now the largest science outreach event on campus with over 7,000 guests and participation from student groups, departments, and faculty across all science disciplines.

Exploring Your Universe is made possible by the hard work of our volunteers in our organizing committee and participating groups. We are very grateful of our sponsors, who help support Exploring Your Universe and allow us to bring this event to our community free of charge.

Exploring Your Universe 2017 Organizing Committee

• Michael Topping
  Lead Coordinator
  Cosignatory
• Devin Chu
  Cosignatory
• S. Michelle Consiglio
  Cosignatory

• Oscar Campos
  Public Talks Coordinator
  Graduate Student, UCLA, Department of Biology
• Devin Chu
  Equipment Coordinator
  Graduate Student, UCLA, Department of Physics & Astronomy
• S. Michelle Consiglio
  Financial Coordinator
  Graduate Student, UCLA, Department of Physics & Astronomy
• Xinnan Du
  Group Coordinator
  Graduate Student, UCLA, Department of Physics & Astronomy
• Abhimat Gautam
  Design, Print, and Web Coordinator
  Graduate Student, UCLA, Department of Physics & Astronomy
• Ryan Roussel
  Group Coordinator
  Graduate Student, UCLA, Department of Physics & Astronomy
• Michael Topping
  Facilities Coordinator
  Graduate Student, UCLA, Department of Physics & Astronomy
• Jennifer Tribble
  Food Coordinator
  Graduate Student, UCLA, Department of Neuroscience
• Christina Van
  Merchandise Coordinator
  Graduate Student, UCLA, Department of Biology

Sponsors

Exploring Your Universe 2017 is sponsored by

• UCLA Division of Physical Sciences
• Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics
• UCLA Galactic Center Group
• California Space Grant Consortium
• UCLA Physics and Astronomy Department
• UCLA Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Department