Personal data
Name: Christiaan Anthonius Maria PETERS
Birthdate & place: March 8 1949 at Hillegom,
NL
Selection of some scientific activities and administration
- Co-director of the Moduli
project (1981-1988) financed
by ZWO, the Dutch NSF. We had 3 PhD successful
students:
- B. Van Geemen, actually
Prof. in Geometry Milan,
- C.
Faber, actually Prof. at the KTH
Stockholm Sweden.
- J.
Top, actually Prof. at the Univ.
Groningen.
- Scientific co-organiser of the
Summer School Aspects of Hodge theory. June
1991 Nice (other members: A. Beauville, J. Carlson,
C. Simpson, C. Voisin).
- Member of the Scientific board of the EC-project Geometry of Algebraic Varieties (1991-1994)
a cooperation between the Universities of Leiden, Warwick,
Orsay, Erlangen, Bonn-Zürich, Torino, Pisa and Barcelona.
- Member of the Scientific board of the EC-project
Algebraic Geometry in Europe AGE
(1995-1998), a cooperation between the Universities
of Barcelona, Bayreuth, Erlangen, Hannover,
Berlin- Essen, Grenoble, Leiden - Amsterdam - Utrecht - Nijmegen
-Geel, Torino, Warwick - Oxford - Cambridge, Orsay, Pavia,
Pisa, Roma and Zürich.
- Scientific responsible for Grenoble for the
project Algebraic Geometry in Europe (1995-1998)
- Organiser of the EC-conference Group
actions on algebraic varieties (November 1995).
- President of the scientific committee of the Warwick
Symposium of Algebraic Geometry 1995-1996;
co-editor of the Proceedings.
- President of the committee which prepared with
success the project comprising all the algebraic geometers of
the EC: EAGER 1999-2003.
- Co-organiser (together with S. Müller-Stach,
Essen Germany) of the Grenoble summer school Algebraic
cycles: transcendental aspects 2001; co-editor of
the proceedings.
- 2003-2005: organiser of the weekly
Grenoble seminar Géométrie et Analyse Complexe.
- 2005--2008: co-organiser (with S.
Druel, and later with L. Manivel) of the weekly
seminar Algèbre et Géométries which
incorporates the former and the algebra and geometry seminar.
- 2004 Scientific organiser of the
international conference Cycles and Motives, Leiden.
Co-editor (with J. Nagel) of the proceedings.
- 2005-2006 Scientific responsible for
Grenoble for the European project GIFT (Global Integrability of Field
Theories) Contract No 5006 (NEST). Main coordinator: Jacques
Calmet, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe,
Allemagne. Other participants : Karlsruhe, Toulouse,
Amsterdam, Heidelberg, Grenoble.
- 2009 Co-organiser of the workshop Hodge
Theory and Motives, Dijon.
- 2009 Scientific organiser of the
summerschool Renormalization, graph polynomials, Hopf
algebras and relations with motives, CIMAT
(Guanajuato, Mexique) and co-organiser of the
workshop Algebraic geometry and algebra related to
renormalization following the conference.
- 2011 Co-organiser of the workshop
(with P. Eyssidieux) Period Domains and Kähler
Groups, Grenoble
- 2014 Scientific co-organiser of the Summer School Algebraic geometry and number theory Galasataray university, Istanbul
Longer visits
1974/1975 University of Harvard:
1978 Institute of Advanced Study (Fall-semester)
1979 Cortona: Summerschool
1982 Warwick University (September)
1983 Nancy Université (May )
1983 Pisa University (April )
1985 Göttingen SBF (May)
1985 Bowdoin: Summerinstitute AMS
1986 Djursholm, Mittag-Leffler Institute (October)
1989 Zürich ETH (Januari)
1989 University of Utah, Salt Lake City (Spring-semester)
1990 Bonn SFB (May)
1990 McMaster University, Hamilton Canada (June)
1993 Univserity of California at Los Angeles (Spring-semester)
1993 Université Grenoble I, Institute Fourier: Spring and Summer
2007 Tata Institut (Fall)
Selection of invited talks
1984 Mexico City Applications of the Lefschetz' fixed point theorem in (complex) algebraic geometry.
1987 Scheveningen Fermi-curves and surfaces in solid state physics
1989 Sundance Curvature of period domains
1990 Paris Complex Fermi Curves (Séminaire Bourbaki)
1990 Bayreuth Maximal non-rigid variations of Hodge structure of weight one and two
1990 McMaster Univ. Hamilton Topological aspects of the surface classification
1992 UCLA and Caltech Arithmetic on a K3 surface related to coding theory
1992 Salt Lake City, Irvine, Riverside, Göteborg Homeomorphic non-diffeomorphic algebraic surfaces with small invariants
1994 Orsay Géographie des surfaces admettant une structure de spin
1994 Grenoble Théorie de Hodge et symétrie miroir (Etat de recherche)
1995 Rennes Classification des surfaces algébriques du point de vu de la théorie de Mori
1995 Grenoble Bounds on automorphisms of surfaces of general type
1996 Warwick Mirror symmetry, the Hodge theoretic part
1997 Turin Symplectic methods in algebraic geometry
2000 Salt Lake City Two filtrations on the Griffiths groups
2000 Salt Lake City Cohomology of discriminant varieties
2001 Lille Cohomologie du complément du discriminant
2001 Essen Generalized Arakelov Inequalities
2002 Tokyo Filtrations on the Griffiths group
2002 Tokyo and Constanta Variations of Hodge structure and big monodromy
2002 Nijmegen De stelling van Noether en Lefschetz
2003 Grenoble Théorème de Lefschetz-Noether pour des variations
2004 Grenoble Introduction à la symétrie miroir
2005 Lille Motivic polynomials of mixed Hodge structures
2005 Leiden Can one effectiviely decide solvability of systems of PDE?
2006 Allahabad Rigidity of families, past and present
2006 Paris Quelques aspects motiviques de la théorie de Hodge
2006 Basel Motivic aspects of Hodge theory
2007 Salt Lake City and Nijmegen Monodromy of a variation of Hodge structure and algebraic groups
2007 Mumbai Binary quadratic forms, and automorphisms of certain K3-surfaces
2007 Mumbai Motivic aspects of (mixed) Hodge theory
2008 Torino Weights in cohomology
2008 UCLA Lowest weights in cohomology: mixed Hodge modules at work
2008 Dijon Groupe dihédral infini, isométries des formes binaires et automorphismes des surfaces K3 avec nombre de Picard 2
2009 Leeds The infinite dihedral group as a group of symmetries in number theory and in algebraic geometry
2009 Dijon Bloch's conjecture for threefolds
2009 Guanajuato Summer School Hodge theory and motives related to graph polynomials
2010 Torino, Mainz, Leiden Abelian varieties as invariants for Riemannian manifolds; constructions inspired by superstring theory
2010 Hannover Univ. Special K3 double planes and Abelian 4-folds of Weil type
2011 Eindhoven TUE, Univ. Erlangen Abelian varieties as invariants for Riemannian manifolds; constructions inspired by superstring theory
2011 Brest, Univ. de Bretagne Paris Univ. Paris 6 Variétés abéliennes canoniquement associées aux (certaines types de ) variétés différentiables
2012 Dijon, Univ. de Bourgogne Deux domaines hermitiennes isomorphes et une interpretation modulaire
2013 Oxford (Clay Math. Inst.) Applications of mixed Hodge modules to representation theory (after Burgos & Wildeshaus)
2013 Toronto (Fields Institute) Two isomorphic classical domains and related geometric moduli spaces
2014 Université de Rennes Spring School Lectures on Torelli theorems
2014 Galasataray University, Istanbul Lectures on the motivic aspects of Hodge theory: the Hodge characteristic
2014 Woudschouten GQT Lecture: Special curves in moduli spaces of curves, and Hodge theory