Wake Forest University

John A. Gemmer

Publications

Publications are listed in reverse chronological order.

  1. Hill, K., Fei, X. K., & Gemmer, J. A. (2026). Most probable transition path to an ice-free state in a model for Arctic energy balance. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 36(9), 093113. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0324698
  2. Slyman, K., Simper, M., Gemmer, J. A., & Sandstede, B. (2025). Most probable escape paths in perturbed gradient systems. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 24(2), 1408–1421. https://doi.org/10.1137/24M1679872
  3. Laniado, D. D., Maron, Y., Gemmer, J. A., & Sabbah, S. (2025). A spherical code of retinal orientation selectivity enables decoding in ensembled and retinotopic operation. Cell Reports, 44(3), Article 115373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115373
  4. Gemmer, J. A., & Slyman, K. (2024). An inside look at tipping mechanisms for a tropical cyclone. SIAM DSWeb. link
  5. Slyman, K., Gemmer, J. A., Corak, N. K., Kiers, C., & Jones, C. K. R. T. (2024). Tipping in a low-dimensional model of a tropical cyclone. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 457, 133969. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2023.133969
  6. Hill, K., Zanetell, J., & Gemmer, J. A. (2022). Most probable transition paths in piecewise-smooth stochastic differential equations. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 439, 133424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2022.133424
  7. Scanlon, H., & Gemmer, J. A. (2021). Epidemic conditions with temporary link deactivation on a network SIR disease model. Spora: A Journal of Biomathematics, 7(1), 72–85. https://doi.org/10.30707/SPORA7.1.1647885542.976088
  8. Yamamoto, K. K., Shearman, T. L., Struckmeyer, E. J., Gemmer, J. A., & Venkataramani, S. C. (2021). Nature’s forms are frilly, flexible, and functional. The European Physical Journal E, 44(7), Article 95. https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/s10189-021-00099-6
  9. Gemmer, J. A., Moon, G., & Raynor, S. G. (2020). Solutions to a two-dimensional, Neumann free boundary problem. Applicable Analysis, 99(2), 214–231. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036811.2018.1489960
  10. Chen, Y., Gemmer, J. A., Silber, M., & Volkening, A. (2019). Noise-induced tipping under periodic forcing: Preferred tipping phase in a non-adiabatic forcing regime. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 29(4), 043119. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5083973
  11. Sabbah, S., Gemmer, J. A., Bhatia-Lin, A., Manoff, G., Castro, G., Siegel, J. K., Jeffery, N., & Berson, D. M. (2017). A retinal code for motion along the gravitational and body axes. Nature, 546(7659), 492–497. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22818
  12. Grimm, C., & Gemmer, J. A. (2017). Weak and strong solutions to the inverse-square brachistochrone problem on circular and annular domains. Involve, a Journal of Mathematics, 10(5), 833–856. https://doi.org/10.2140/involve.2017.10.833
  13. Gemmer, J. A., Sharon, E., Shearman, T., & Venkataramani, S. C. (2016). Isometric immersions, energy minimization and self-similar buckling in non-Euclidean elastic sheets. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 114(2), 24003.
  14. Gemmer, J. A., Venkataramani, S. C., Durfee, C. G., & Moloney, J. V. (2014). Optical beam shaping and diffraction free waves: A variational approach. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 283, 15–28.
  15. Gemmer, J. A., & Venkataramani, S. C. (2013). Shape transitions in hyperbolic non-Euclidean plates. Soft Matter, 9(34), 8151–8161.
  16. Durfee, C. G., Gemmer, J. A., & Moloney, J. V. (2013). Phase-only shaping algorithm for Gaussian-apodized Bessel beams. Optics Express, 21(13), 15777–15786.
  17. Gemmer, J. A., & Venkataramani, S. C. (2012). Defects and boundary layers in non-Euclidean plates. Nonlinearity, 25(12), 3553–3581.
  18. Gemmer, J. A., & Venkataramani, S. C. (2011). Shape selection in non-Euclidean plates. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 240(19), 1536–1552.
  19. Gemmer, J. A., Nolan, M., & Umble, R. (2011). Generalizations of the brachistochrone problem. Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, 13(4), 207–218.