Contact Info

Primary Title: 
Emeritus Professor
Email Contact: 
Voice Contact: 
(541) 737-4686
Fax Contact: 
(541) 737-0517
Office: 
Kidd 044

Education

Ph.D. Princeton, 1974.
A.B. Dartmouth, 1971.

Research

Research Field: 
Geometric Measure Theory, Minimal Hypersurfaces, and Applications to Variational Problems
Research Description: 

Parks 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.

Research Group: 
Analysis
Geometry/Topology
Year of Retirement: 
2016