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Title:
Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

Speaker:
Kurt Przybilla

Abstract:
An inventor, writer, producer, and educator. As co-creator, writer, and producer of theMolecularium, an outreach and educational program by the Nanotechnology Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, Przybilla produced and co-wrote numerous projects including Molecules to the MAX!, a 3D animated film for Giant Screen IMAX theaters;Molecularium, an award-winning digital dome feature; and NanoSpace, a game-based online theme park created to teach children about atoms and molecules. Notably, he invented Tetra Tops®, the world’s first spinning top with more than one axis of spin, which was inspired by the works of Buckminster Fuller and has been featured in The New York Times, Popular Science, Baby Einstein, Child, Discover Magazine,and exhibited at the Smithsonian Institute.

Link:
http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/video.php?id=2634

Workshop:
Simons- Buckminster Fuller Exhibition