- Series
- Research Horizons Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 12:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 171
- Speaker
- John McCuan – School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech – mccuan@math.gatech.edu
- Organizer
- Craig Sloane
I will describe several geometrical problems that arise from
the minimization of some sort of integral functional and the basic
relation between such minimization and partial differential equations.
Then I will make some further comments on my favorite kind of such
problems, namely those that have something to do with minimizing area of
surfaces under various side conditions.