Sports geekdom: Fractal dimension of wheelchair rugby, multiaxial criterion in bike-frame analysis - and more!
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, July 9, 2012
UMass-Lowell is hosting a geek-errific conference all weeks on sports science, with topics like "Development of a tool for training the drag flick penalty corner in field hockey" and "Aerodynamic properties and flow behavior for a badminton shuttlecock with spin at high Reynolds numbers" and "The influence of surface characteristics on the tribological interactions at the shoe‐surface interface in tennis".
It's titled The Engineering of Sport; here's the website. It looks amazing, in an unexpected-mix-of-topics way - if nothing else, I learned a new word: tribological.
