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Faculty News Briefs

June 2017

Professor Rob Kusner gave the Drexel University colloquium on 22 May - his topic was "The space of soap bubbles." At the end of the month he heads to the Aspen Center for Physics to lead a working group with Yoav Kallus (Santa Fe Institute) and Wöden Kusner (Vanderbilt University) on rope packing, which also a topic of the 3-week ACP workshop during their visit.

On Cinco de Mayo, Professor Ivan Mirkovic delivered the Brandeis-Harvard-MIT colloquium at Brandeis on "Generalized loop Grassmannians."

During 30 May - 3 June 2017, Professor Franz Pedit participated in the LMS Workshop Programme Variational Methods in Submanifold Theory at the University of York, where he spoke about "Classification of homogeneous Willmore 2-spheres in the n-sphere." Franz will be on sabbatical for the remainder of the year, serving as Research Professor at the TU-Berlin SFBTR109 (Discretization in Geometry and Dynamics).

News Briefs will return in September 2017 - have a great summer!

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