Martin Palmer-Anghel

I am a postdoctoral researcher, working with Carl-Friedrich Bödigheimer, in the topology group of the University of Bonn.

Previously: 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 2013 to September 2015 I was a postdoc at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, in the research group of Michael Weiss. Until March 2013 I was a PhD student in the Topology group at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Ulrike Tillmann.

Research interests

My research interests are in algebraic and geometric topology, so far focusing on different kinds of configuration spaces and moduli spaces of submanifolds (in particular also braid groups and mapping class groups), and the phenomenon of homological stability.

My main website is mdp.ac.
My CV is here.

Note

Until August 2017, my last name was Palmer; since then, it is Palmer-Anghel. However, for the sake of consistency, I continue to use just the first half for publications.

Publications

Triple-crossing number and moves on triple-crossing link diagrams – with Colin Adams and Jim Hoste
To appear in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications
arXiv: abs – pdf
Twisted homological stability for configuration spaces
Homology, Homotopy and Applications vol. 20 no. 2 (2018) pp. 145-178
arXiv: abs – pdf
On homological stability for configuration spaces on closed background manifolds – with Federico Cantero
Documenta Mathematica vol. 20 (2015) pp. 753-805
arXiv: abs – pdf
A twisted homology fibration criterion and the twisted group-completion theorem – with Jeremy Miller
The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics vol. 66 no. 1 (2015) pp. 265-284
arXiv: abs – pdf
Scanning for oriented configuration spaces – with Jeremy Miller
Homology, Homotopy and Applications vol. 17 no. 1 (2015) pp. 35-66
arXiv: abs – pdf
Homological stability for oriented configuration spaces
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. vol. 365 (2013) pp. 3675-3711
arXiv: abs – pdf

Preprints

Homological stability for moduli spaces of disconnected submanifolds, II - Symmetric diffeomorphism groups and parametrised connected sum
arXiv: abs – pdf
Homological stability for moduli spaces of disconnected submanifolds, I
arXiv: abs – pdf
A comparison of twisted coefficient systems
arXiv: abs – pdf

Teaching

Next semester (SoSe 2019) I will be running a Bachelor seminar on Braid groups and configuration spaces.
This semester (WiSe 2018/19) I am lecturing the course Algebraic Topology I.
In SoSe 2018 I ran a Bachelor/Master seminar on Morse theory and the h-cobordism theorem.
In WiSe 2017/18 I was the Assistent for the course Einführung in die Algebra, lectured by Prof. Catharina Stroppel, and I was jointly running the Bachelor seminar on Riemann Surfaces with Prof. C.-F. Bödigheimer.
In SoSe 2017 I lectured the course Advanced Topics in Topology – Exotic spheres. (See also the official course webpage in basis.)
In WiSe 2016/17 I was the Assistent and an Übungsgruppenleiter for the course Topologie I, lectured by Prof. C.-F. Bödigheimer.