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SUMMARY:Gabriel Martins (Sacramento State)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/WMGAG/12/">S
 kateboard tricks and topological flips</a>\nby Gabriel Martins (Sacramento
  State) as part of GAG seminar\n\nLecture held in Jones Hall 302.\n\nAbstr
 act\nWe study the motion of skateboard flip tricks by modeling them as con
 tinuous curves in the group  $\\mathrm{SO}(3)$ of special orthogonal matri
 ces. We show that up to continuous deformation there are only four flip tr
 icks. The proof relies on an analysis of the lift of such curves to the un
 it-sphere. We are also able to use these lifted curves to visualize many o
 f the tricks and deformations between them.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/WMGAG/12/
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