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Universe Sandbox

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Type: General Meetings

Held on: Mar 15, 2017 (Wed) at 07:30 PM to Mar 15, 2017 (Wed) at 09:00 PM

Speaker: Dan Dixon

Location: Physics/Astronomy Auditorium (PAA), Room A102, Seattle, Washington

Event Coordinator: Christopher Laurel

Overview

Dan Dixon is creator of the Universe Sandbox simulation game. He'll talk about how he and his team of programmers, a planetary scientist, and a climate scientist collaborated to create an app that can model galactic collisions and solar system dynamics.

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