%%% plain tex \let\boundary=\partial Jochen Denzler: Windows of given area with minimal heat diffusion \par Transactions of the AMS 351 (1999), 569-580 \vskip1ex For a bounded Lipschitz domain~$\Omega$, we show the existence of a measurable set~$D\subset\boundary\Omega$ of given area such that the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian with Dirichlet conditions on~$D$ and Neumann conditions on~$\boundary\Omega\setminus D$ becomes minimal. If $\Omega$~is a ball, $D$~will be a spherical cap. \end