As described in the previous week's talk by Mikhail Karpukhin, there is a rich interplay between isoperimetric problems for Laplace eigenvalues on surfaces and the study of harmonic maps and minimal surfaces in spheres. Over the last 10-15 years, a program initiated by Fraser and Schoen has revealed a similar relationship between isoperimetric problems for the…

Numerical simulations on infinite domains are challenging. In this talk, we will take geometric approaches to analyze the problems and provide new solutions.  One problem we tackle is the perfectly matched layer (PML) problem for computational waves on infinite domains. PML is a theoretical wave-absorbing medium attached to the truncated domain that generates no reflection…