Martin David Palmer
Martin David Palmer
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For the academic year 2024–2025 I am a lecturer at the University of Leeds in the research group Algebra, geometry and integrable systems.

Since October 2019 (on leave for the academic year 2024–2025) I am a researcher at the Mathematical Institute of the Romanian Academy (Institutul de Matematică Simion Stoilow al Academiei Române / IMAR), in the research group Differential Geometry and Algebraic Topology.

Previously:

From October 2016 to September 2019 I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn), in the research group of Carl-Friedrich Bödigheimer.

From October 2015 to September 2016 I was in the Algebraic Topology group of Lionel Schwartz in the Laboratoire Analyse, Géométrie et Applications at Université Paris 13.

From April 2013 to September 2015 I was a postdoc at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, in the research group of Michael Weiss.

Before that (until March 2013) I was a PhD student in the Topology group at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Ulrike Tillmann.

My research interests are centred around algebraic and geometric topology, including:

  • configuration spaces of various kinds,
  • moduli spaces of manifolds,
  • monopole moduli spaces,
  • surface braid groups, loop braid groups, mapping class groups (their representation theory, lower central series, ...),
  • polynomial functors,
  • group-completions of topological monoids,
  • multi-crossing numbers of knots and links,
  • "big" mapping class groups (mapping class groups of infinite-type surfaces),
  • connections of any of the above to other parts of mathematics.

A summary of my previous work is here (last updated February 2024).

Email addresses:

Addresses:
  • School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
  • IMAR, 21 Calea Griviței, 010702 Bucharest, Romania

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For publication purposes, my last name remains Palmer, but since 20 August 2017 my full last name is Palmer-Anghel :-)

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