short curriculum

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Christiaan Anthonius Maria PETERS

Birthdate & place: March 8 1949 at Hillegom, NL

Scientific career

PhD: University of Leiden, May 1974.
Assistant Univ. Leiden: Sept 1969-May 1974
Research Fellow: University of Harvard, 1974/1975
Assistant Professor: Sept 1975--March 1979,
Professor at the University of Leiden: March 1979--Jan 1994,
Professor at the University of Grenoble-I: since Feb. 1 1994.

Some temporary positions

Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton: Aug 1978-- Dec. 1978,
Invited Professorship at the University of Nancy: may 1983,
Invited Professorship at the University of Salt Lake City: March--July 1989.
Invited Professorship at the University of California at Los Angeles: March--July 1992.
Invited Professorship at the University of Grenoble-I: Feb 1993--Aug. 1993.
Invited Professorship at the Tata institute at Mumbai: Oct.-- Dec. 2007.

Students

R. Brand 1980, co-directed with A. Van de Ven.
D. Epema 1983, Leiden, co-directed with J. Murre.
T. Kalker 1986, Leiden, co-directed with A. Van de Ven.
L. van Gastel 1989, Utrecht, co-directed with F. Oort.
R. Brussee 1992, Leiden, co-directed with A. Van de Ven.
J. Spandaw 1993, Leiden, co-directed with A. Van de Ven.
J. Mulder 1993, Leiden, co-directed with J. Murre.
R. Laterveer 1997 situation actuelle CR au CNRS, Strasbourg.
J. Nagel 1997 co-directed with J. Murre (Leiden); Prof. Dijon, habilitation 2006.
M.Halic 1999; Ass. Prof. KFUPM, Dahran Saudi Arabia. Here is Mihai's home page
M. Leoni 1999 ; Prof. agréé en secondaire.

Selection of some scientific activities

Co-director of the Moduli project (1981--1988). This was financed by ZWO, the Dutch NSF. There were 3 PhD students:

B. Van Geemen, thesis Siegel Modular forms vanishing on the moduli space of curves, Invent. Math. 78 1984
C. Faber, thesis Chow rings of moduli spaces of curves, Ann. Math. 132, 1990.
J. Top, thesis Hecke L-series related with algebraic cycles or with Siegel modular forms, 12 June 1989.

Member of the scientific committee for 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
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; 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.
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.

Selection of invited talks

1979	Angers	Automorphisms of Kähler surfaces
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
1992	UCLA and Caltech	Arithmetic on a K3 surface related to coding theory
1992	Salt~Lake~City, Irvine, Riverside and 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 (complexes) 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	Hodge theory and motives related to graph polynomials