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The Fourteenth Annual NES/MAA Dinner Meeting in Memory of Kenneth J. Preskenis was held on Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Dr. Frank Morgan, Williams College, gave the 2016 Preskenis Lecture, "The Isoperimetric Problem with Density".

Dr. Morgan is the Webster Atwell '21 Professor of Mathematics and Chair of the Mathematics Department at Williams College, a 1993 winner of The Mathematical Association of America's Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, and the 1992 winner of the Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America (NES/MAA) Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching. He is the author of six books and numerous research articles.

 

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.

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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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