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Preskenis Dinner Main Page Fourteenth - 2016
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Fourteenth - 2016
Abstract: The circle provides the least-perimeter way to enclose given area in the plane (“solves the isoperimetric problem”). How does the optimal shape change if you give the plane a weighting or density on both area and perimeter? One interesting example is a weighting proportional to r2. There has been a huge surge of interest in weightings since their appearance in Perelman's proof of the Poincaré Conjecture. The talk will include open problems and work by undergraduates. Dinner Meeting Program Lecture Program We thank Sodexho, the Office of the Vice President of Academic Affairs, and Pearson Education for their support of the 2016 NES/MAA Dinner Meeting in Memory of Kenneth J. Preskenis.
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