MATH Seminar

Title: Minimal surfaces with an elastic boundary
Colloquium: N/A
Speaker: Professor Gilbert Weinstein of
Contact: Prof. Oliker, oliker@mathcs.emory.edu
Date: 2009-03-06 at 3:00PM
Venue: MSC W303
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Abstract: I will describe a variational model combining energies in two different dimensions: surface tension, and 1-d elastic energy at the boundary. The model is motivated by findings in molecular dynamics simulations of HDL particle.