Curriculum Vitae

Richard G. Palmer

Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708-0305 (919) 660-2559 (office)
919-3214532 (home)
(email)
Education

Theoretical PhysicsCambridge Univ1973
Ph.D.University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)1973
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

Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
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. Palmer, R, Statistical mechanics approaches to complex optimization problems, in The Economy as an Evolving Complex System: The Proceedings of the Evolutionary Paths of the Global Economy Workshop, Held September, 1987 in Santa Fe, New Mexico (January, 2018), pp. 177-194, CRC Press, ISBN 9780201156850
  2. Anderson, PW; Thouless, DJ; Palmer, RG, Solution of ‘solvable model of a spin glass’, in Career In Theoretical Physics, A (2nd Edition) (January, 2005), pp. 522-530, ISBN 9789812567154
  3. Dragoi, V; Staddon, JER; Palmer, RG; Buhusi, CV, Interval timing as an emergent learning property., Psychological review, vol. 110 no. 1 (January, 2003), pp. 126-144
  4. LeBaron, B; Arthur, WB; Palmer, R, Time series properties of an artificial stock market, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 23 no. 9-10 (January, 1999), pp. 1487-1516, Elsevier BV
  5. Palmer, RG; Adler, J, Ground states for large samples of two-dimensional Ising spin glasses, International Journal of Modern Physics C, vol. 10 no. 4 (January, 1999), pp. 667-675, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
  6. Newman, MEJ; Palmer, RG, Error estimation in the histogram Monte Carlo method, Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 97 no. 5-6 (January, 1999), pp. 1011-1026
  7. Palmer, RG; Arthur, WB; Holland, JH; LeBaron, B, An Artificial Stock Market, Artificial Life and Robotics, vol. 3 (1999)
  8. Staddon, JE; Davis, DG; Machado, A; Palmer, RG, Cumulative effects model: a response to Williams (1994), Psychological review, vol. 101 no. 4 (October, 1994), pp. 708-710, ISSN 0033-295X
  9. Palmer, RG; Brian Arthur, W; Holland, JH; LeBaron, B; Tayler, P, Artificial economic life: a simple model of a stockmarket, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, vol. 75 no. 1-3 (August, 1994), pp. 264-274, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0167-2789
  10. Rust, J; Miller, JH; Palmer, R, Characterizing effective trading strategies. Insights from a computerized double auction tournament, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 18 no. 1 (January, 1994), pp. 61-96, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0165-1889
  11. Davis, DG; Staddon, JE; Machado, A; Palmer, RG, The process of recurrent choice., Psychological review, vol. 100 no. 2 (April, 1993), pp. 320-341, ISSN 0033-295X
  12. Stein, DL; Doering, CR; Plamer, RG; Van Hemmen, JL; McLaughlin, RM, Escape over a fluctuating barrier: The white noise limit, Journal of Physics A: General Physics, vol. 23 no. 5 (December, 1990), pp. L203-L208, IOP Publishing, ISSN 0305-4470
  13. Ajay, ; Palmer, RG, Simulation of a toy model with constrained dynamics, Journal of Physics A: General Physics, vol. 23 no. 11 (December, 1990), pp. 2139-2145, IOP Publishing, ISSN 0305-4470
  14. Hansen, GE; Palmer, RG, Compact nuclear-power source critical experiments and analysis, Nuclear Science And Engineering, vol. 103 no. 3 (November, 1989), pp. 237-246
  15. Stein, DL; Palmer, RG; Van Hemmen, JL; Doering, CR, Mean exit times over fluctuating barriers, Physics Letters A, vol. 136 no. 7-8 (April, 1989), pp. 353-357, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0375-9601
  16. Stein, DL; Palmer, RG, Nature of the glass transition., Physical review. B, Condensed matter, vol. 38 no. 16 (December, 1988), pp. 12035-12038, American Physical Society (APS), ISSN 0163-1829
  17. Palmer, RG, The role of constraints in glassy relaxation, Nuclear Physics B (Proceedings Supplements), vol. 5 no. 1 (January, 1988), pp. 81, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0920-5632
  18. Adler, J; Palmer, RG; Meyer, H, Transmission of order in some unusual dilute systems., Physical review letters, vol. 58 no. 9 (March, 1987), pp. 882-885, American Physical Society (APS), ISSN 0031-9007
  19. PALMER, RG, Parallels and Contrasts between Glass and Spin Glass, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 484 no. 1 (January, 1986), pp. 109-120
  20. Palmer, RG; Bantilan, FT, High-temperature expansion for a diluted spin-glass model, Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, vol. 18 no. 1 (December, 1985), pp. 171-180, IOP Publishing, ISSN 0022-3719
  21. Palmer, RG; Stein, DL; Abrahams, E; Anderson, PW, Erratum: Models of hierarchically constrained dynamics for glassy relaxation (Physical Review Letters (1985) 54,17 (1965)), Physical Review Letters, vol. 54 no. 17 (December, 1985), pp. 1965, American Physical Society (APS), ISSN 0031-9007
  22. Palmer, RG; Frisch, HL, Low-and high-dimension limits of a phase separation model, Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 38 no. 5-6 (March, 1985), pp. 867-872, Springer Nature, ISSN 0022-4715
  23. Randeria, M; Sethna, JP; Palmer, RG, Low-frequency relaxation in Ising spin-glasses., Physical review letters, vol. 54 no. 12 (March, 1985), pp. 1321-1324, American Physical Society (APS), ISSN 0031-9007
  24. Palmer, RG; Stein, DL, Palmer et al. respond., Physical review letters, vol. 54 no. 4 (January, 1985), pp. 365, AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC, ISSN 0031-9007
  25. Palmer, RG, Correction, Physical Review Letters, vol. 54 no. 17 (1985), pp. 1965-1965, ISSN 0031-9007
  26. Palmer, RG; Frisch, HL, Low-dimension and high-dimension limits of a phase-separation model, Journal Of Statistical Physics, vol. 38 no. 5-6 (1985), pp. 867-872
  27. Palmer, RG; Stein, DL; Abrahams, E; Anderson, PW, Models of hierarchically constrained dynamics for glassy relaxation, Physical Review Letters, vol. 53 no. 10 (January, 1984), pp. 958-961, American Physical Society (APS), ISSN 0031-9007
  28. Hopfield, JJ; Feinstein, DI; Palmer, RG, 'Unlearning' has a stabilizing effect in collective memories., Nature, vol. 304 no. 5922 (July, 1983), pp. 158-159
  29. PALMER, RG, BROKEN ERGODICITY IN SPIN-GLASSES, LECTURE NOTES IN PHYSICS, vol. 192 (January, 1983), pp. 234-251, SPRINGER, ISSN 0075-8450
  30. Kolan, AJ; Palmer, RG, Ground state properties of a spin glass model, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 53 no. 3 (December, 1982), pp. 2198-2200, AIP Publishing, ISSN 0021-8979
  31. Van Hemmen, JL; Palmer, RG, The thermodynamic limit and the replica method for short-range random systems, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 15 no. 12 (December, 1982), pp. 3881-3890, IOP Publishing, ISSN 0305-4470
  32. Palmer, RG, Broken ergodicity, Advances in Physics, vol. 31 no. 6 (January, 1982), pp. 669-735, Informa UK Limited, ISSN 0001-8732
  33. Bantilan, FT; Palmer, RG, Magnetic properties of a model spin glass and the failure of linear response theory, Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics, vol. 11 no. 1 (December, 1981), pp. 261-266, IOP Publishing, ISSN 0305-4608
  34. Palmer, RG, 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
  35. Palmer, RG, Shielding optimization studies for a space reactor system, Transactions Of The American Nuclear Society, vol. 39 (1981), pp. 764-765
  36. Kolan, AJ; Palmer, RG, Distribution of frustrated plaquettes in the random bond square lattice, Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, vol. 13 no. 23 (December, 1980), pp. L575-L580, IOP Publishing, ISSN 0022-3719
  37. KOLAN, AJ; PALMER, RG, DISTRIBUTION OF FRUSTRATED PLAQUETTES FOR THE RANDOM 2D ISING-MODEL, BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY, vol. 25 no. 3 (January, 1980), pp. 206-206, AMER INST PHYSICS, ISSN 0003-0503
  38. BANTILAN, FT; PALMER, RG, ZERO-TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES OF INFINITE-RANGE ISING SPIN-GLASS MODELS, BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY, vol. 25 no. 3 (January, 1980), pp. 206-206, AMER INST PHYSICS, ISSN 0003-0503
  39. PALMER, RG, INFORMATION, ORDER, AND DEGENERACY IN RANDOM-SYSTEMS, BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY, vol. 25 no. 3 (January, 1980), pp. 349-349, AMER INST PHYSICS, ISSN 0003-0503
  40. Palmer, RG, Charged hard sphere results for the one-component plasma, The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 73 no. 4 (January, 1980), pp. 2009-2010, AIP Publishing, ISSN 0021-9606
  41. Van Hemmen, JL; Palmer, RG, The replica method and solvable spin glass model, Journal of Physics A: General Physics, vol. 12 no. 4 (December, 1979), pp. 563-580, IOP Publishing, ISSN 0305-4470
  42. Palmer, RG; Pond, CM, Internal field distributions in model spin glasses, Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics, vol. 9 no. 7 (December, 1979), pp. 1451-1459, IOP Publishing, ISSN 0305-4608
  43. Gould, H; Palmer, RG; Estévez, GA, Asymptotic form of the mean spherical approximation for the internal energy of the classical one-component plasma, Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 21 no. 1 (July, 1979), pp. 55-64, Springer Nature, ISSN 0022-4715
  44. Anderson, PW; Thouless, DJ; Palmer, RG, Comment on "The third law of thermodynamics and the theory of spin glasses" by E.P. Wohlfarth, Physics Letters A, vol. 62 no. 6 (September, 1977), pp. 456, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0375-9601
  45. Thouless, DJ; Anderson, PW; Palmer, RG, Solution of ‘Solvable model of a spin glass’, Philosophical Magazine, vol. 35 no. 3 (January, 1977), pp. 593-601, Informa UK Limited
  46. Palmer, RG, Neutron star cores, Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 34 no. 1 (April, 1975), pp. 209-222, Springer Nature America, Inc, ISSN 0004-640X
  47. Anderson, PW; Itoh, N; Alpar, MA; Tosatti, E; Palmer, RG, Positively charged isospin wave softening and proton lattice in neutron stars, Lettere al Nuovo Cimento, vol. 12 no. 6 (February, 1975), pp. 165-170, Springer Nature, ISSN 0375-930X
  48. Palmer, RG; Anderson, PW, Corresponding-states approach to nuclear and neutron-star matter, Physical Review D, vol. 9 no. 12 (January, 1974), pp. 3281-3291, American Physical Society (APS), ISSN 0556-2821
  49. Palmer, RG; Weeks, JD, Exact solution of the mean spherical model for charged hard spheres in a uniform neutralizing background, The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 58 no. 10 (January, 1973), pp. 4171-4174, AIP Publishing, ISSN 0021-9606

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)

Others

  1. Hertz, J; Krogh, A; Palmer, RG, Introduction to the theory of neural computation (January, 2018), pp. 1-327, CRC Press, ISBN 9780201515602
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