Isoperimetric Problems

Event time: 
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 2:00pm
Location: 
LOM 206
Speaker: 
Frank Morgan
Speaker affiliation: 
Williams College
Event description: 

Abstract: The round circle is the least-perimeter way to enclose given area. What about multiple areas? What if the space carries a perhaps radial density? What if the region has to be a tile (which can be repeated to fill space)? The talk wlll include open problems and some recent results, including work by undergraduates.

Special note: 
SUMRY Colloquium