On the exact failure of the hot spots conjecture

Seminar: 
Analysis
Event time: 
Thursday, April 23, 2026 - 4:00pm
Location: 
KT 201
Speaker: 
Mitchell Taylor
Speaker affiliation: 
ETH Zürich
Event description: 

The hot spots conjecture asserts that as time goes to infinity, the hottest and coldest points in an insulated domain will migrate towards the boundary of the domain. In this talk, I will describe joint work with Jaume de Dios Pont and Alex Hsu where we find the exact failure of the hot spots conjecture in every dimension.

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