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Title: Shape Optimization: From Soap Films to Acoustics
Speaker: Robin Neumayer
Speaker Info: Carnegie-Mellon University
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The task of optimizing an object's shape to make it the most efficient, least costly, or most streamlined arises in nature as well as across engineering and design fields. For instance, due to surface tension, soap bubbles take the shape with the least surface area among all possible shapes enclosing a fixed amount of air — a sphere! We will introduce the mathematical study of so-called “shape optimization problems” and survey some classical and contemporary results in the field.

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