Penn Arts & Sciences Logo

Penn Mathematics Colloquium

Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 4:30pm

Frank Morgan

Williams College

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL A-2

[THIS IS A <font color=green> MATH-PHYSICS JOINT COLLOQUIUM </font>]

Soap bubbles are round, and more complicated soap bubble clusters and other materials have other beautiful shapes. They apparently try to minimize surface area or energy. Are their shapes really the best possible? The presentation will include demnstrations and a description of the recent proof with Hutchings, Ritore', and Ros of the Double Bubble Conjecture, in which undergraduates have played an important role.