MATH 799 Math Soap
John McCuan from the Georgia Institute of Technology will give a short one credit hour course on the mathematics of soap. This class is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. If you are interested in this course send an e-mail to dav@math.ksu.edu including your course schedule and free times between April 15 and April 29.
Abstract of lecture 1: we will give an overview of some of the surprising things we think are true about these bubbles but for which we know no proof. In addition, the first in a sequence of estimates related to the mathematical existence theory of these bubbles (and to existence theory for more general equations) will be discussed. We will also introduce the most important fundamental tool used in the analysis of these equations---the maximum principle.