Education
Parks obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1974 from Princeton University, under the supervision of Frederick J. Almgren, Junior. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Parks obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1974 from Princeton University, under the supervision of Frederick J. Almgren, Junior. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
His Doctoral Students include Zachary Gelbaum and Dean C. Wills. He has developed and implemented a computational technique for computing parametric area minimizing surfaces. He derived an existence and regularity theory for a class of constrained variational problems.
Parks has discovered, and characterized, a type of minimal surface with surprising properties, defined in terms of the Jacobi elliptic functions.
American Mathematical Society.