selected publications academic article Parks, H. R., & Pitts, J. T. (2020). Explicit Determination in R-N of (N-1)-Dimensional Area Minimizing Surfaces with Arbitrary Boundaries. Journal of Geometric Analysis. 30(1), 601-616. Parks, H. R., & Pitts, J. T. (2000). Energy estimates for area minimizing hypersurfaces with arbitrary boundaries. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 115(1-2), 451-460. Fackler, J. P., Staples, R. J., Liu, C. W., Stubbs, R. T., Lopez, C., & Pitts, J. T. (1998). Tetrahedral, octahedral, cubal and centered cubal dithiolate clusters and cages of Cu(I) and Ag(I). Pure and Applied Chemistry. 70(4), 839-844. Liu, C. W., Pitts, J. T., & Fackler, J. P. (1997). Structural isomers of octahedral M6S12 clusters formed from dithiolates. An octahedral hexasilver(I) cluster containing dialkyl dithiophosphate ligands, {Ag[S2P(OC3H7)(2)]}(6), with a different geometrical arrangement from that of {Cu[S2P(OC2H5)(2)]}(6). Polyhedron. 16(22), 3899-3909. Parks, H. R., & Pitts, J. T. (1997). Computing least area hypersurfaces spanning arbitrary boundaries. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. 18(3), 886-917. Liu, C. W., Pitts, J. T., & Fackler, J. P. (1997). Structural isomers of octahedral M6S12 clusters formed from dithiolates. An octahedral hexasilver(I) cluster containing dialkyl dithiophosphate ligands, {Ag[S2P(OC3H7)2]}6, with a different geometrical arrangement from that of {Cu[S2P(OC2H5)2]}6. Polyhedron. 16(22), 3899-3909. Parks, H. R., & Pitts, J. T. (1996). The least-gradient method for computing area minimizing hypersurfaces spanning arbitrary boundaries. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 66(1-2), 401-409. Pitts, J. T., & Rubinstein, J. H. (1995). The topology of minimal surfaces in seifert fiber spaces. MICHIGAN MATHEMATICAL JOURNAL. 42(3), 525-535. PITTS, J. T., & RUBINSTEIN, J. H. (1988). EQUIVARIANT MINIMAX AND MINIMAL-SURFACES IN GEOMETRIC 3-MANIFOLDS. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY. 19(1), 303-309. BOGGESS, A., PITTS, J. T., & POLKING, J. C. (1987). THE LOCAL HULL OF HOLOMORPHY OF SEMIRIGID SUBMANIFOLDS OF CODIMENSION-2. MICHIGAN MATHEMATICAL JOURNAL. 34(1), 105-118. HARDT, R. M., & PITTS, J. T. (1986). SOLVING PLATEAU-PROBLEM FOR HYPERSURFACES WITHOUT THE COMPACTNESS THEOREM FOR INTEGRAL CURRENTS. 44, 255-259. BOGGESS, A., & PITTS, J. (1985). CR EXTENSION NEAR A POINT OF HIGHER TYPE. DUKE MATHEMATICAL JOURNAL. 52(1), 67-102. BOGGESS, A., & PITTS, J. (1984). CR EXTENSION NEAR A POINT OF HIGHER TYPE. Comptes Rendus Mathematique (Academie des Sciences). 298(1), 9-12. Pitts, J. T. (1976). Existence and regularity of minimal surfaces on Riemannian manifolds. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY. 82(3), 503-504. conference paper Pitts, J. T., & Rubinstein, J. H. (1987). Applications of minimax to minimal surfaces and the topology of 3-manifolds. 137-170.
principal investigator on Texas Geometry and Topology Conference (TGTC) awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2015 - 2018 Texas Geometry and Topology Conference awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2012 - 2015
teaching activities MATH304 Linear Algebra Instructor MATH439 Dif Geom Crvs & Srfcs Instructor MATH470 Comm And Cryptography Instructor MATH666 Seminar In Geometry Instructor MATH673 Info Sec Auth I Instructor MATH685 Directed Studies Instructor MATH691 Research Instructor
education and training Ph.D. in Mathematics, Princeton University - (Princeton, New Jersey, United States) 1974 A.B. in Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin - (Austin, Texas, United States) 1970
awards and honors Sloan Research Fellowship-Mathematics, conferred by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - (New York, New York, United States), 1981