‘Soap Bubble Geometry’ is Subject of Annual Leonard Sulski Lecture at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – The 12th annual Leonard C. Sulski Memorial Lecture in Mathematics will take place on April 7 at 8 p.m. in Room 519 of the Hogan Campus Center at the College of the Holy Cross. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Professor Frank Morgan, of Williams College, will give this year’s lecture, titled "Soap Bubble Geometry, 200 BC - 2005 AD."

Professor Morgan received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1977. He taught for 10 years at MIT before going to Williams College, where he is currently the Webster Atwell ’21 professor of mathematics. He has written four books, and is a highly regarded researcher in the geometry of minimal surfaces. He is also widely known as an outstanding lecturer and expositor of mathematics, and he received one of the first National Distinguished Teaching Awards given by the Mathematical Association of America in 1992. His talk will focus on the geometry of soap bubbles a subject which has confounded mathematicians for more than 2,000 years. His presentation will include the latest news, questions, explanations, demonstrations and prizes, and it will be aimed at a general mathematical audience, including undergraduate students.

The annual mathematical lecture series is a tribute to Leonard C. Sulski who taught in the mathematics department at Holy Cross from 1965 until his death from leukemia in 1991.