Each year, the College of Natural Sciences invites teachers, staff and students to send interesting and intriguing images of their research for the science competition visualizing at the scale of the college. This year winners were revealed in Texas Science Festival 2025.
The submission of the undergraduate Caleb Chalmer in mathematics has received the best honors, the criticisms noting “a ghostly quality which becomes more interesting the more you look for a long time”. Chalmers created its own version of what is known as the logistics card because it was so in love with underlying mathematics.
Best scientific imaging can attract a spectator, inspiring curiosity in new areas of interest in the process. Many former winners of the visualization of sciences can be presented in Texas Science and Natural History Museum on the UT Austin campus.
The eight exceptional eight submissions of the Community of Natural Sciences which have won this year were chosen as finalists for their beauty and their scientific merit by professional scientific communicators or by members of the community on social networks.
The winning entries on this page are also found in our Visualizing Science Showcase, a 3D Virtual Gallery exhibition featuring the winners and finalists of more than a decade of competitions. The images selected in the gallery include widened audio descriptions of their creators. Take a walk in the virtual gallery using the link at the bottom of this page.
About the image of the first prize
There are two summers, the Major of Mathematics Caleb Chalmers was part of the reading program led by the summer of the Mathematics Department UT, which combines first cycle mathematics students with mentors of graduate students who help them study interesting mathematical mathematical subjects which are generally not covered in the courses. He has learned dynamic systems, which are systems that fluctuate over time and can be found in various fields of study, such as physics, biology, history, medicine and more.
More specifically, Chalmers has examined the dynamics of the logistics card, which is defined by the quadratic difference equation. Finding that he is one of the most beautiful graphics in mathematics, he created his own version of the chaotic part (r_inf