This webpage is out of date - my website has moved to zatibq.com.

I am a PhD student in the Topology group at the University of Oxford. My supervisor is Ulrike Tillmann.
My research interests lie in algebraic and geometric topology, including homological stability, configuration spaces, mapping class groups, spaces of graphs, and moduli spaces more generally.
Email: palmer_(at)_maths.ox.ac.uk
Address: Mathematical Institute, 24-29 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LB, UK

Slides from talks

"Configuration spaces and homological stability" - from the Young Topologists' Meeting in Copenhagen in July 2012.
"Homological stability for oriented configuration spaces" - from a meeting of the Transpennine Topology Triangle in Leicester in April 2011.*

* Disclaimer: these slides were only intended to make sense when combined with me talking about them. This talk roughly corresponds to section 3 of the preprint above; see there for more details.

Conferences, workshops, and summer schools

Past:

Symposium: "Algebraic Topology: Applications and New Directions", Stanford, July 2012[link]
Summer school on Algebraic K-theory (wcatss), Stanford, July 2012[link]
Young Topologists' Meeting, Copenhagen, July 2012[link]
Oberwolfach seminar: "Surgery theory", May/June 2012[link]
Mini-school on "Modern perspectives in homotopy theory", Swansea, April 2012[link]
4th Sheffield Homotopy Miniconference, January 2012 [link]
Oberwolfach workshop: "Homotopy theory", September 2011 [link]
26th British Topology Meeting, Edinburgh, September 2011 [link]
PCMI graduate summer school: "Moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces", Park City, Utah, July 2011 [link]
GRK1150: "Graphs, Groups, and Surfaces", Kirchberg (Hunsrück), October 2010
Two summer schools in Oregon, August 2010: "Homotopy theory of moduli spaces" (wcatss) [link] and "Operator algebras and conformal field theory" [link]
Young Topologists' Meeting, Copenhagen, June 2010 [link]