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A Variational Perspective on Wrinkling Patterns in Thin Elastic Sheets

Robert Kohn speaks at Duke Math Gergen Lecture
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Robert V. Kohn (New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
Math Department Gergen Lectures Seminar

The wrinkling of thin elastic sheets is very familiar: our skin wrinkles, drapes have coarsening folds, and a sheet stretched over a round surface must wrinkle or fold.

What kind of mathematics is relevant? Read the complete abstract: https://math.duke.edu/events/82666-variational-perspective-wrinkling-patterns-thin-elastic-sheets

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