"Seeing Science"

Advances in video production and scientific visualization are among the most exciting and noteworthy outcomes of the progress that has been made in computational science. Whether it is the immersive environments of “Avatar,” the ubiquity of high quality video capture on even the smallest of devices, or the visualization of complex mathematical, physical, and biological phenomena, computational science has enabled us to see things as we have never seen them before.

With this in mind, The Neukom Institute is delighted to announce the new “Seeing Science” competition, open to all Dartmouth students (undergraduate and graduate) to promote visual approaches to science understanding:

Rules: 

• Video entries* must be received by March 15, 2012.
• Contestants must be enrolled students at Dartmouth College.
• Video entries can be any length.
• It goes without saying, this must be your own work but up to four students may collaborate on an entry.
• They must either explain or illuminate some scientific idea
• OR be obviously inspired by some scientific idea (e.g., the movie "Pi")
• OR serve as an application/illustration of some new idea that could make possible an interesting advance in visualization/video production.

(Note that the explanation of a scientific idea might very well be completely expository and hopefully, highly creative in nature-- i.e., have fun with it!)

Prizes: 1st Place -- $1,000, 2nd Place -- $750 (two awards), 3rd Place -- $500

All videos will be featured on the Neukom website and the Neukom playlist on the Dartmouth YouTube channel.

Email questions to Dan Rockmore.

*Need equipment or help? The Jones Media Center in Baker-Berry Library has it all.