Event Detail

Event Type: 
Geometry-Topology Seminar
Date/Time: 
Monday, November 26, 2018 - 12:00 to 12:50
Location: 
Kidd 236

Speaker Info

Guest Speaker: 
Botong Qu and Jinta Zheng
Institution: 
EECS Oregon State University
Abstract: 

Kaleidoscopic scenes are fascinating to artists and scientists. Copies of the objects inside a kaleidoscope inspire mathematical theories on symmetries. We develop a visualization system to track the objects and their copies to demonstrate orbifolds that are good, bad and kaleidoscopic.