Harold R Parks

Who is Harold R Parks?

Harold Raymond Parks is an American mathematician, and is a professor emeritus of mathematics at Oregon State University.

Parks obtained his Ph.D. in 1974 from Princeton University, under the supervision of Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. 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.