Curriculum vitae:
Scientific career
- PhD: University of Leiden, May 1974.
Thesis adviser A.H.J.M. van de Ven.
- Assistant : Univ. Leiden, Sept 1969-May 1974
- Research Fellow: University of Harvard, 1974/1975
- Assistant Professor Univ. Leiden, Sept 1975--March
1979,
- Professor, University of Leiden (UHD), March
1979-Jan 1994,
- Professor, University of Grenoble-I, Feb. 1 1994-
Aug 2013.
- Emeritus, University of Grenoble-I, Sept 1 2013
- Sept 1 2014.
- Retired, University of Grenoble-I: from Sept 1 2014
on.
- Guest Researcher, University of Eindhoven, from
Sept 1 2013 on.
Some temporary positions
- Member of the Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton: fall 1978,
- Invited Professorship, University of
Nancy: may 1983,
- Invited Professorship, University of
Salt Lake City: spring 1989.
- Invited Professorship, University of
California at Los Angeles: spring 1992.
- Invited Professorship, University of
Grenoble-I: spring 1993.
- Invited Professorship, Tata institute
(Mumbai): fall 2000
Some scientific profiles with stats
Selection of some scientific
activities and administration
1981-1988 Co-director of the Moduli
project, financed by ZWO, the Dutch NSF
with 3 PhD
successful students: Bert
Van Geemen, actually Prof. of Geometry in
Milan, Carel Faber, Prof. at the
University of Utrecht and Member of the Royal Dutch Academy
of Sciences (KNAW), J. Top, Prof. at the Univ.
Groningen.
1991 Scientific co-organiser of the
Summer School Aspects of Hodge theory.
Nice (other members: A. Beauville, J. Carlson, C. Simpson,
C. Voisin).
1991-1994 Member of the Scientific board
of the EC-project Geometry of Algebraic
Varieties, a cooperation between the Universities
of Leiden, Warwick, Orsay, Erlangen, Bonn-Zürich, Torino, Pisa and
Barcelona.
1995-1998 Member of the Scientific board
of the EC-project Algebraic Geometry in Europe AGE, 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.
1995-1998 Scientific responsible for
Grenoble for the project Algebraic Geometry in Europe.
1995-1996 President of the scientific
committee of the Warwick
Symposium of Algebraic Geometry; co-editor of
the Proceedings.
1999-2003 President of the committee which
prepared with success the project comprising all the algebraic
geometers of the EC: EAGER.
2001 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.
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
2015 Scientific co-organiser of the memorial
conference in honor of A.H.J.M. van de Ven, Leiden
2023 Invited editor for special volume of Indagationes
Math. in memory of J. Murre.
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 (July)
1986 Djursholm,
Mittag-Leffler Institute (October)
1989 Zürich ETH (January)
1989 University of Utah,
Salt Lake City (Spring-semester)
1990 Bonn SFB (May)
1990 McMaster University,
Hamilton Canada (June)
1993 University 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 (on the
occasion of Griffiths' 50th birthday) Curvature of period domains
1990 Paris Complex Fermi Curves (Séminaire
Bourbaki)
1990 Bayreuth Univ. 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 Univ. Can one effectively decide solvability
of systems of PDE?
2006 Allahabad (Harish
Chandra Institute) Rigidity
of families, past and present
2006 Paris VII Quelques aspects motiviques
de la théorie de Hodge
2006 Basel Univ. Motivic aspects of Hodge theory
2007 Salt Lake City
and Nijmegen Univ. Monodromy
of a variation of Hodge structure and algebraic groups
2007 Mumbai (Tata
Institute) Binary quadratic
forms, and automorphisms of certain K3-surfaces
2007 Mumbai (Tata Institute)
Motivic aspects of (mixed) Hodge
theory
2008 Torino Univ. Weights in cohomology
2008 UCLA Lowest weights in cohomology: mixed
Hodge modules at work
2008 Dijon Univ. Groupe dihédral infini, isométries des
formes binaires et automorphismes des surfaces K3 avec nombre de
Picard 2
2009 Leeds Univ. The infinite dihedral group as a group
of symmetries in number theory and in algebraic geometry
2009 Dijon Univ. Bloch's conjecture for threefolds
2009 Guanajuato
Institute Summer School Hodge
theory and motives related to graph polynomials
2010 Torino, Mainz, Leiden
Univs. 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 Rennes Univ. Spring
School Lectures on Torelli
theorems
2014 Galasataray Univ.,
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
2015 Dijon, Univ. de Bourgogne, workshop
Perverse Sheaves and Application, Lecture The Baily-Borel
boundary; group theory and Hodge theory on tori fibers
2016 Montreal, Univ. de Montréal, workshop Algebraic cycles
and moduli, Lecture From Belyi curves to embedded Mumford-Tate varieties: applying the spread
philosophy to rigid data
2017 Strasbourg, IRMA Univ. de Strasbourg Plan doubles
sextiques en guise de surface K3 ayant une involution d'Enriques.
2017 Eindhoven TUE On the
general “nodal” Enriques surface.
2017 Hannover Univ. On the moduli space
of “nodal” Enriques surfaces.
2017 Milaan Univ. On a motivic interpretation of
primitive and variable cohomology
2018 Amsterdam, UvA. The Hitchin fibration
Intercity Seminarium Meetkunde. info
2019 Leiden, Univ. Leiden. Introduction to mixed
Hodge theory, Intercity Seminarium Meetkunde.
2022 Leiden, Univ. Leiden. On symplectic invariants
for isolated cDV-singularities, Reading group
symplectic geometry.
2023 Groningen, Univ. of Groningen & Leiden, Univ.
Leiden. A remarkable class of weighted elliptic surfaces.
2024 Leiden, Univ. Leiden. Chern classes
& Severi classes in Voisin's proof of Lehn's conjecture.
Reading group centered around Lehn's conjecture.