Julian I. Palmore
Professor of Mathematics
Education: Ph.D., Yale University (Astronomy), Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (Mathematics), M.S.E., Princeton University (Aerospace Sciences), B.E.P., Cornell University (Engineering Physics)
Areas of Expertise
Chaos, complexity theory and dynamical systems; ballistic missile defense and related operations research issues; use of game theory and probability theory in arms control; U.S.-Asia relations, emerging infectious diseases and their effects on international security.
Biography
Julian Palmore is a research mathematician who received a Ph.D. in astronomy at Yale University and a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was an instructor of mathematics at M.I.T. and received a Lilly Postdoctoral Teaching Award Fellowship during his second year. He taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, immediately prior to becoming a faculty member at UIUC. He has been on the faculty of mathematics at UIUC since 1977 and served as ACDIS Director from 2005 to 2007.
His mathematical research interests are in chaos and complexity theory, differential equations, celestial mechanics, probability and uses of game theory. His international security interests are in operations research, risk assessment, and effects of emerging infectious diseases on international security. In 2004 he was named North American editor for the journal Defense & Security Analysis and has also written and published articles for the same journal.
He was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Fellow of the Explorers Club of New York and the World Innovation Foundation. For the past several years, he chaired the Menger Prize Committee of the American Mathematical Society and led the AMS panel of judges at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
He teaches graduate courses in mathematics on differential equations, dynamical systems and chaos theory and undergraduate courses on probability theory, differential equations, and mathematical issues in national security. During spring semesters 1999 and 2000, he participated in the ACDIS Ford Foundation Interdisciplinary Seminar on “Protecting Populations and Critical Infrastructure against Terrorist Attack.” More recently, he has taught mathematics courses on various national security issues.
In the past several years he has traveled extensively to Asia (Shanghai, Hong Kong, Nanjing, Bangkok-Chiang Mai) and to Goettingen to participate in mathematics conferences and to the UK for international security and defense policy meetings at Wilton Park.
Selected Publications
Articles or Book Chapters:
"On setting priorities for international security," Critical Commentary, Defense & Security Analysis 22:1 (March 2006).
"Missile Defense and Europe: Strengthening Transatlantic Cooperation in an Evolving Setting," Defense & Security Analysis 21:4 (December 2005).
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Contact Information
Office
377 Altgeld Hall, MC 382
Mailing Address
377 Altgeld Hall
1409 W. Green
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone
[cell] (217) 417-6909
Fax
(217) 333-9576
palmore[AT]uiuc[DOT]edu