I am a (tenure-track) assistant professor at Amherst College.
Starting in January 2026, my research activities will be partially supported by NSF grant DMS-2532949.
Office: SMUD 007
Email: jpalmer -at- amherst.edu
Current Teaching (fall 2025): Multivariable Calculus (Math 211) and Linear Algebra (Math 271)
Office Hours (fall 2025) in SMUD 007:
Tuesdays: 10:30-11:30am and 1:30-2:30pm
Wednesdays: 1:30-3:30pm
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.
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.
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.
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.
Most of my articles can be found on my arXiv profile.
My Google Scholar page shows my papers with citation counts and other info.