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Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, 4–5 p.m.
Gabe Martins - CSU Sacramento Title: Skateboard Tricks and Topological Flips Abstract: We will discuss continuous deformations between different skateboard flip tricks, and we will see why up to deformation there are only four such tricks. That may be accomplished by describing the motion of skateboard flip tricks as continuous curves in the matrix group SO(3). We will also present animations and visualizations developed in Python for this project. Our strategy can be seen as a variant of Dirac's belt trick to a system with additional symmetries.
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