Curriculum Vitae

Richard G Palmer

053 Physics Bldg
Durham, NC 27708 		(919) 660-2559 (office)
919-3214532 (home)
(email)
Education

Theoretical PhysicsCambridge Univ1973
Areas of Research

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

Professional Experience / Employment History

Princeton Univ
Lecturer, Physics, 1975-77
Postdoc and teaching (faculty)
Instructor, Physics, 1973-75
Postdoc and teaching (faculty)
Visiting Positions
External Professor, Santa Fe Institute, 1989-present
Complex Systems
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Guggenheim Fellowship
Duke Endowment Award for Excellence in Teaching, Duke
Alfred P Sloan Fellowship
Lord Kelvin Research Fellowship, Peterhouse, Cambridge Univ
Selected Recent Invited Talks

Energy Landscapes, Telluride CO, 20 July 2003  
Workshop Computational Complexity and Statistical Physics, LANL, Santa Fe, 5 September 2001  
Energy Landscapes: Structure, Dynamics and Optimization Algorithms, Telluride, CO, 16 August 2001  
Conference on Conference on Disintegration Themes, Santa Fe Institute, 23 July 2001  
Joint Conference on Information Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC, 28 October 1998  
International Conference on Complex system, Nashua, NH, 26 October 1998  
Conference on Evolutionary Dynamics, Santa Fe Institute, 9 October 1998  
Conference on Integrative Themes in Complex Systems, Santa Fe Institute, 20 July 1998  
Conference on Agents, Artificial Life, and Economics, Bristol, UK, 24 June 1998  
Conference on Complexity and Biology, Milan, Italy, 9 April 1998  
International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Beppu, Japan, 20 January 1998  

Publications

Journal Articles

  1. V. Dragoi, J.E.R. Staddon, R.G. Palmer, V.C. Buhusi, Interval Timing As An Emergent Learning Property, Psychological Review (2002)
  2. M.E.J. Newman and R.G. Palmer, Error Estimation in the Histogram Monte Carlo Method, J. Stat. Phys., vol. 97 (1999), pp. 1011-1026
  3. R.G. Palmer and Joan Adler, Ground states for Large Samples of Two-Dimensional Ising Spin Glasses, Intl J. Mod. Phys. C, vol. 10 (1999), pp. 667-675
  4. B. LeBaron, W.B. Arthur, and R.G. Palmer, Time Series Properties of an Artificial Stock Market, J. Econ. Dynamics and Control, vol. 23 (1999), pp. 1487-1516
  5. R.G. Palmer, W.B. Arthur, J.H. Holland and B. LeBaron, An Artificial Stock Market, Artificial Life and Robotics, vol. 3 (1999)
  6. and R. G. Palmer, Simulation of a toy model with constrained dynamics, Journal Of Physics A-mathematical And General, vol. 23 no. 11 (June, 1990), pp. 2139 -- 2145
  7. D. L. Stein and C. R. Doering and R. G. Palmer and J. L. Vanhemmen and R. M. Mclaughlin, Escape over a fluctuating barrier - the white noise limit, Journal Of Physics A-mathematical And General, vol. 23 no. 5 (March, 1990), pp. L203 -- L208
  8. G. E. Hansen and R. G. Palmer, Compact nuclear-power source critical experiments and analysis, Nuclear Science And Engineering, vol. 103 no. 3 (November, 1989), pp. 237 -- 246
  9. D. L. Stein and R. G. Palmer and J. L. Vanhemmen and C. R. Doering, Mean exit times over fluctuating barriers, Physics Letters A, vol. 136 no. 7-8 (April, 1989), pp. 353 -- 357
  10. D. L. Stein and R. G. Palmer, Nature of the glass-transition, Physical Review B, vol. 38 no. 16 (December, 1988), pp. 12035 -- 12038
  11. J. Adler and R. G. Palmer and H. Meyer, Transmission of order in some unusual dilute systems, Physical Review Letters, vol. 58 no. 9 (March, 1987), pp. 882 -- 885
  12. R. G. Palmer and D. L. Stein and E. Abrahams and P. W. Anderson, Models of hierarchically constrained dynamics for glassy relaxation - reply, Physical Review Letters, vol. 54 no. 4 (1985), pp. 365 -- 365
  13. M. Randeria and J. P. Sethna and R. G. Palmer, Low-frequency relaxation in ising spin-glasses, Physical Review Letters, vol. 54 no. 12 (1985), pp. 1321 -- 1324
  14. R. G. Palmer and H. L. Frisch, Low-dimension and high-dimension limits of a phase-separation model, Journal Of Statistical Physics, vol. 38 no. 5-6 (1985), pp. 867 -- 872
  15. R. G. Palmer, Correction, Physical Review Letters, vol. 54 no. 17 (1985), pp. 1965 -- 1965
  16. R. G. Palmer and F. T. Bantilan, High-temperature expansion for a diluted spin-glass model, Journal Of Physics C-solid State Physics, vol. 18 no. 1 (1985), pp. 171 -- 180
  17. R. G. Palmer and D. L. Stein and E. Abrahams and P. W. Anderson, Models of hierarchically constrained dynamics for glassy relaxation, Physical Review Letters, vol. 53 no. 10 (1984), pp. 958 -- 961
  18. R. G. Palmer, Broken ergodicity in spin-glasses, Lecture Notes In Physics, vol. 192 (1983), pp. 234 -- 251
  19. J. L. Vanhemmen and R. G. Palmer, The thermodynamic limit and the replica method for short-range random-systems, Journal Of Physics A-mathematical And General, vol. 15 no. 12 (1982), pp. 3881 -- 3890
  20. A. J. Kolan and R. G. Palmer, Ground-state properties of a spin-glass model, Journal Of Applied Physics, vol. 53 no. 3 (1982), pp. 2198 -- 2200
  21. R. G. Palmer, Broken ergodicity, Advances In Physics, vol. 31 no. 6 (1982), pp. 669 -- 735
  22. F. T. Bantilan and R. G. Palmer, Magnetic-properties of a model spin-glass and the failure of linear response theory, Journal Of Physics F-metal Physics, vol. 11 no. 1 (1981), pp. 261 -- 266
  23. R. G. Palmer, Shielding optimization studies for a space reactor system, Transactions Of The American Nuclear Society, vol. 39 (1981), pp. 764 -- 765
  24. R. G. Palmer, Application of coupled reactor theory to explain reactivity slumping effects in heterogeneous lmfbrs, Transactions Of The American Nuclear Society, vol. 38 no. JUN (1981), pp. 415 -- 416
  25. R. G. Palmer, Charged hard-sphere results for the one-component plasma, Journal Of Chemical Physics, vol. 73 no. 4 (1980), pp. 2009 -- 2010
  26. R. G. Palmer, Information, order, and degeneracy in random-systems, Bulletin Of The American Physical Society, vol. 25 no. 3 (1980), pp. 349 -- 349
  27. A. J. Kolan and R. G. Palmer, Distribution of frustrated plaquettes in the random bond square lattice, Journal Of Physics C-solid State Physics, vol. 13 no. 23 (1980), pp. L575 -- L580
  28. F. T. Bantilan and R. G. Palmer, Zero-temperature properties of infinite-range ising spin-glass models, Bulletin Of The American Physical Society, vol. 25 no. 3 (1980), pp. 206 -- 206
  29. A. J. Kolan and R. G. Palmer, Distribution of frustrated plaquettes for the random 2d ising-model, Bulletin Of The American Physical Society, vol. 25 no. 3 (1980), pp. 206 -- 206

Books

  1. M.E.J. Newman and R.G. Palmer, Modeling Extinction (Spring, 2003), Oxford University Press

Papers In Preparation

  1. Cris Moore and R.G. Palmer, Upper and Lower Bounds on Spin-Glass Ground State Energies (Summer, 2003)
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