Robert Almgren
Robert F. Almgren is an applied mathematician, academic, and businessman focused on market microstructure and order execution.
He is the son of renowned Princeton mathematician Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. With Neil Chriss, he wrote a paper" Optimal execution of portfolio transactions", which Institutional Investor said" helped lay the groundwork for arrival- price algorithms being developed on Wall Street."
He is a cofounder of Quantitative Brokers and its Head of Research, and a visiting professor in Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University.
Frederick J. Almgren Jr.
Frederick Justin Almgren Jr.
(July 3, 1933, in Birmingham, Alabama – February 5, 1997, in Princeton, New Jersey) was a mathematician working in geometric measure theory.
He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1974.
Between 1963 and 1992 he was a frequent visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
He wrote one of the longest papers in mathematics, proving what is now called the Almgren regularity theorem: the singular set of an -dimensional mass-minimizing hypersurface has dimension at most : he also developed the concept of varifold, first defined by L. C. Young in , and proposed them as generalized solutions to Plateau's problem, in order to deal with the problem even when a concept of orientation is missing.
He played also an important role in the founding of "The Geometry Center".
He was a student of Herbert Federer, one of the founders of geometric measure theory, and was the advisor and husband (as his second wife) of Jean Taylor.
His daughter, Ann S. Almgren, is an applied mathematician who works on computational simulations in astrophysics.
His son, Robert F. Almgren, is an applied mathematician working on market microstructure and trade execution.
Jean Taylor
Jean Ellen Taylor (born 1944) is an American mathematician who is a professor emerita at Rutgers University and visiting faculty at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.
Frank Morgan (mathematician)
Frank Morgan is an American mathematician and the Webster Atwell'21 Professor of Mathematics at Williams College, specialising in geometric measure theory and minimal surfaces.
He is most famous for proving the Double Bubble conjecture, that the minimum- surface- area enclosure of two given volumes is formed by three spherical patches meeting at 120- degree angles at a common circle.
Morgan was a vice- president- elect of the American Mathematical Society.
Morgan studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton University, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1977, under the supervision of Frederick J. Almgren Jr..
He taught at MIT for ten years before joining the Williams faculty.
John M. Sullivan (mathematician)
John Matthew Sullivan( born February 25, 1963) is an American mathematician who works in Germany as a professor at the Technical University of Berlin.
His research includes work on knot theory, constant- mean- curvature surfaces, mathematical foams, scientific visualization, and mesh generation.
Sullivan was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1985.
He earned a master's degree from the University of Cambridge in 1986, and a doctorate from Princeton University in 1990 under the supervision of Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. After postdoctoral studies at The Geometry Center and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign in 1997.
He moved to Berlin in 2003, and chaired the Berlin Mathematical School from 2012 to 2014.
In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
Jon T. Pitts
Jon T. Pitts( born 1948) is an American mathematician working on geometric analysis and variational calculus.
He is a professor at Texas A&M University.
Pitts obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974 under the supervision of Frederick Almgren, Jr., with the thesis" Every Compact Three- Dimensional Manifold Contains Two- Dimensional Minimal Submanifolds".
He received a Sloan Fellowship in 1981.
The Almgren – Pitts min-max theory is named after his teacher and him.
Brian White (mathematician)
Brian Cabell White is an American mathematician who specializes in differential geometry and geometric measure theory.
He is a professor of mathematics and former chair of the mathematics department at Stanford University.
He played a key role in the solution of the double bubble conjecture, that the minimum-area enclosure of two volumes is formed from three spherical patches meeting in a circle and forming dihedral angles of 2/3 with each other, by proving that the optimal solution to this problem is necessarily a surface of revolution.
White graduated from Yale University in 1977, as the top student in the sciences at Yale.
He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1982, with a dissertation on minimal surfaces supervised by Frederick J. Almgren, Jr..
After postdoctoral research at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, he became a faculty member at Stanford in 1983.
He was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 1985, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999.
He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002, speaking in the differential geometry section on the curve-shortening flow and mean curvature flow.
In 2012, he was selected as one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
David Albert
David Z. Albert( b. 1954) is Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy and Director of the M.A. Program in The Philosophical Foundations of Physics at Columbia University in New York.
Harold R. Parks
Harold Raymond Parks( born May 22, 1949) 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.
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.
Kathryn Tanner
Kathryn Eileen Tanner( born 1957) is Frederick Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School.

Question: What nationality is Frederick J. Almgren Jr.'s wife?
Answer: American