Frank Morgan Second Vice-President of the MAA Dennis Meenan '54 Third Century Professor of Mathematics Department of Mathematics and Statistics Williams College Frank Morgan went to MIT and Princeton. He has taught and done research at MIT, Rice, Stanford, and the Institute for Advanced Study, where he held the first Visiting Professorship for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. He served as Chair of the Mathematics Department at Williams, and is founding director of a NSF undergraduate research project. Frank Morgan works in minimal surfaces and studies the behavior and structure of minimizers in various dimensions and settings. Dr. Morgan's lecture is on soap bubble minimal surfaces.
Soap bubbles contain an amazing amount of important geometry.
Hutchings, Morgan, Ritore', and Ros proved that a double soap bubble is the least-perimeter way to enclose and separate two given volumes of air. Undergraduates have played an important role in this research. . . . Sonja Sandberg has taught at Framingham State since 1985. She received her undergraduate degree in applied mathematics from MIT and her Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from Southwestern Medical Center. Her research interest involves using mathematical tools to answer questions in biology and medicine.