Martin David Palmer -- Teaching and supervision

Martin David Palmer -- Teaching and supervision

Teaching and supervision

Teaching at Clermont-Ferrand (2025–2026)

In the spring semester 2026 I was a tutor (chargé de TD) for the 1st-year bachelor's-level course Mathématiques S2 and for the 2nd-year bachelor's-level course Algèbre euclidienne.
- Moodle page for Mathématiques S2
- Moodle page for Algèbre euclidienne
In the winter semester 2025 I was a tutor (chargé de TD) for the 1st-year bachelor's-level course Mathématiques S1.
- Contrôles continus
- Moodle page for the course

Teaching at Leeds (2024–2025)

I was the lecturer ("module leader") for the lecture course "MATH2051 Geometry of Curves and Surfaces".
- Official entry in the module catalogue.
- Timetable.
- The lecture notes, homeworks and workshop exercises are all available on Minerva.

Teaching at Bonn (2016–2019)

In the Sommersemester 2019 I ran the bachelor/master-level seminar "S2D5: Zopfgruppen und Konfigurationsräume — S4D2: Braid groups and configuration spaces".
- Official seminar webpage.
- Unofficial seminar webpage.
- Seminar schedule: (English) – (German).
- Entries in BASIS: S2D5 – S4D2.
In the Wintersemester 2018/2019 I was the lecturer for the course V4D1: Algebraic Topology I
- Course webpage.
- Outline of lectures 1–16 and 19–22 (pdf).
- Outline of lectures 17–18 (pdf).
- Webpage in basis.
In the Sommersemester 2018 I ran a bachelor/master-level seminar on Morse theory, with the goal of proving the h-cobordism theorem.
- Official seminar webpage.
- Unofficial seminar webpage.
- Programme of the seminar in English and in German.
Assistent for the course Einführung in die Algebra taught by Catharina Stroppel. (Wintersemester 2017/18)
Exercise sheets
Jointly (with Carl-Friedrich Bödigheimer) running the student seminar Riemann Surfaces. (Wintersemester 2017/18)
Lecturer for the course Advanced Topics in Topology — Exotic spheres. (Sommersemester 2017) (See also the official course webpage in basis.)
Assistent + Übungsgruppenleiter for the course Topologie I taught by Carl-Friedrich Bödigheimer. (Wintersemester 2016/17)
Exercise sheets

Teaching at Münster (2013–2015)

Übungsgruppenleiter (≅ class tutor) for the course "Topologie 3" taught by Michael Weiss.
Übungsgruppenleiter (≅ class tutor) for the Knot Theory course in SoSe (summer semester) 2013.
I was briefly a substitute lecturer for one lecture of this [link] topology course.

Teaching at Oxford (2009–2012)

Class tutor for the undergraduate Algebraic Topology course at Oxford.
Teaching assistant for the undergraduate Lie Groups and Topology and Groups courses at Oxford.
Tutor for various first and second year algebra courses at St John’s College and at Merton College.

Supervision

PhD students
- Bianca Badea (IMAR, Bucharest, 2026–)
Master's students
- Christopher Fillmore (Bonn, 2017–2018, submitted December 2018)
  - Homological stability of mapping class groups
- Genta Latifi (Bonn, 2016–2017, submitted December 2017)
  - Vertical configuration spaces and homological stability
Bachelor's students
- Philipp Wegner (Bonn, 2018–2019, submitted June 2019)
  - Loop braid groups
- David Göckede (Bonn, 2017–2018, submitted January 2018)
  - The Alexander and HOMFLY polynomials via Markov functions
- Lara Glessen (Bonn, 2016–2017, submitted June 2017)
  - Linearity of the braid groups

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