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APRG Seminar

Title: Optimisation of a mixed Steklov Dirichlet Eigenvalue
Speaker: Anisa Chorwadwala (IISER Pune)
Date: 30 July 2025
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LH-5, Mathematics Department

In this talk, I am going to talk about an eigenvalue optimisation problem over a family of doubly connected domains $U := D \setminus \Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$ where $\partial D$, one boundary component, is a circle while the other component, $\partial \Omega$, enjoys a dihedral symmetry. The Boundary Value Problem under consideration is $\Delta u = 0$ on $D \setminus \Omega$, $u = 0$ on $\partial D$ and $\frac{\partial u}{\partial n} = \sigma u$ on $\partial \Omega$. We study the behaviour of the first nonzero eigenvalue of this problem as the domain $\Omega$ rotates about its own center by an angle $\theta$ in the anticlockwise direction. We also investigate if there is any symmetry, monotonicity in the behaviour of the eigenvalue as a function of $\theta$, and try to find global maximisers and global minimisers of the eigenvalue with respect to $\theta$. This is based on a joint work with Sagar Basak, Ravi Prakash and Sheela Verma.


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Last updated: 05 Dec 2025