7–11 Jul 2025
Palazzo del Castelletto
Europe/Rome timezone

On a new partitioning problem

7 Jul 2025, 09:00
1h
Aula Dini (Palazzo del Castelletto)

Aula Dini

Palazzo del Castelletto

Via del Castelletto, 17/1, 56126 Pisa PI

Speaker

Lia Bronsard (McMaster University)

Description

I will first review the classical partitioning problem, discuss the double/triple/K-bubble conjectures, and introduce a new partitioning problem that arises in the study of triblock copolymers in certain limiting regimes. I will present the setting for this new geometrical problem, discuss existence and uniqueness of locally minimizing solutions as well as answers to several conjectures. These represent joint works with Stan Alama, Silas Vriend, Mike Novack, Robin Neumayer and Anna Skorobogatova.

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