BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68cd406176d5f DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210114T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210114T130000 URL:/combinatorics-and-optimization/events/algebraic-co mbinatorics-seminar-steve-melczer-1 SUMMARY:Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Steve Melczer CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nTITLE: Analytic Combinatorics\, Rigorous Numerics\ , and Uniqueness of\nBiomembranes\n\nSpeaker:\n Steve Melczer\n\nAffiliati on:\n University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ\n\nZoom:\n Contact Karen Yeats\n\nABSTRACT:\n \nSince the invention of the compound microscope in the early\nseventeenth century\, scientists have marvelled over red blood cells\nand their surpr ising shape. An influential model of Canham predicts\nthe shapes of blood cells and similar biomembranes come from a\nvariational problem minimizing the \"bending energy\" of these surfaces.\nBecause observed (healthy) cel ls have the same shape in humans\, it is\nnatural to ask whether the model admits a unique solution. Here\, we\nprove solution uniqueness for the ge nus one Canham problem.\n DTSTAMP:20250919T113705Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR