Joseph Palmer

Research interests:

I am interested in several fields all generally related to symplectic geometry, including:

• Integrable systems (especially those admitting torus actions, such as toric, semitoric, hypersemitoric, ...)

• Symplectic and Hamiltonian group actions

• Floer theory (including immersed Floer theory)

• Geometric mechanics and dynamics

For more information you can see my research page. I currently have 17 papers: 14 publications and 3 additional preprints. I have also mentored several undergraduate research projects.

Work history:

• As of Fall 2024, I am a tenure-track assistant professor at Amherst College.

• From 2020-2024 I was a postdoc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working with Susan Tolman.

• From 2019-2020 (and in summers 2021, 2022, & 2023) I was a postdoc at Universiteit Antwerpen working with Sonja Hohloch.

• From 2016-2019 I was a postdoc at Rutgers University working with Chris Woodward.

Visiting positions

• In Fall 2023 I was a Fields Research Fellow and the Fields Institute in Toronto, Canada working with Yael Karshon.

• In summer 2017 I was an Invited Researcher at the Institute Des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) in Bures Sur Yvette, France.

Educational history:

• In 2016 I received my PhD in Mathematics at University of California, San Diego, with advisor Álvaro Pelayo.

• In 2013 I received a Masters in Mathematics from Washington University in St Louis, with advisor Álvaro Pelayo

• In 2011 I received Math BS & Physics BS degrees from Truman State University with a minor in Computer Science.