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Friday, February 17

Colloquium

Mark Allan, Brigham Young University

Isoperimetric and Faber-Krahn Inequalities

Date:
Time:
4:00 pm – 4:50 pm
Location: Avery Hall Room: 115
In this talk we review the isoperimetric inequality and how it leads to the Faber-Krahn inequality. We will then discuss how to establish quantitative forms of these inequalities. This entails measuring how close a set is to a ball if the perimeter ( …