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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 3:00pm

Ryan Hynd

University of Pennsylvania

Location

Drexel Korman 245

United States

The problems of determining the shape and stability of a rotating liquid drop has attracted the attention of many scientists including J. Plateau, Lord Rayleigh, H. Poincare, and S. Chandrasekhar. Nevertheless, many interesting problems remain open including the existence of non-symmetric, stable drops. We will discuss several aspects of these problems and some recent work on the classification of rotational toriodal-shaped drops.