Jean-Marie Bois - Mathematisches Seminar - Christian-Albrechts ...

General information
Name Jean-Marie Bois
curriculum vitae
Contact details Mathematisches Seminar
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Ludewig-Meyn Str. 4
24 098 Kiel, Germany
Telephone (+49) 431 880 3665
Email bois@math.uni-kiel.de
Homepage http://www.math.uni-kiel.de/algebra/bois/jmbois.html
Research interests Lie theory, representation theory, non-commutative algebra
Education
2004 Teaching certificate (Agrégation), option Probability / Statistics.
1999 – 2004 PhD in Mathematics, University of Reims, Hons. class Très Honorable.
Title: Enveloping skewfields of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras and in
positive characteristics [in French]; supervisor: J. Alev.
1997 – 1999 Master’s (Maîtrise and D.E.A.) in Mathematics, Reims.
Master’s thesis: Quantum analogues of solvable Lie groups (after De
Concini, Kac, Procesi) [in French]; supervisor: G. Cauchon.
1996 – 1997 Bachelor’s degree (Licence) in Mathematics, Reims.
Employment history
Since Feb 2012 Research associate, with R. Farnsteiner, University of Kiel.
Oct 2011– Jan 2012 Tutor, University of Kiel.
Sep 2011 Invited researcher at East China Normal University (Shanghai),
with B. Shu.
Oct 2009 – Sep 2011 Research fellow, Kiel.
Funded by the DFG Priority Programme 1388 “Representation
Theory”.
Mar – Sep 2009 Research associate, with R. Farnsteiner, University of Kiel.
Apr 2008 – Feb 2009 Research fellow, Bielefeld.
Funded by the CRC 701 “Topological and spectral structures in representation
theory”.
Jan – Feb 2008 Invited researcher, Max-Planck Institute, Bonn.
Oct 2006 – Jul 2007 Post-doc, with R. Farnsteiner, Bielefeld.
Supported by the DAAD and the CRC 701.
Nov 2005 – Aug 2006 Post-doc, with B. Kunyavskiĭ, Bar-Ilan University.
Funded by the RTN Network “Algebraic K-theory, linear algebraic
groups and related structures”.
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Apr 2005 Invited researcher, University of Washington (Seattle), with J.J.
Zhang.
Sep 2004 – Feb 2005 Stage d’agrégation (secondary school teaching training), lycée La
Fontaine du Vé, Sézanne.
1999 – 2004 Teaching assistant, Reims.
Partially supported by a grant of the Région Champagne-Ardenne.
Teaching experience
Winter term 2011 / 2012 Tutor, Kiel, half position (20 hours).
– Bachelor: Linear algebra 1
Spring term 2009 Teaching assistant, Kiel, half position (40 hours).
– Bachelor: Linear algebra 2
– Master: Representation theory
Sep 2002 – Aug 2004 Teaching assistant, Reims, half position (96 hours / year).
– Bachelor: Differential equations (theory and programming);
supervision of T.E.R. (“Study and Research Report”)
– Practical sessions: introduction to Matlab
Sep 1999 – Aug 2002 Teaching assistant, Reims, part time (64 hours / year).
Publications
– Bachelor: Linear algebra 2
– Practical sessions: general computer practise
1. Weyl groups for non-classical restricted Lie algebras and the Chevalley restriction theorem,
with R. Farnsteiner and B. Shu, accepted in Forum Math. Preprint arXiv:1003.4358.
2. Algebraic families of subfields in division rings, with G. Vernik, J. Algebra 339 (2011),
172–180.
3. Generators of simple Lie algebras II, Forum Math. 22 (2010), 525–538.
4. Generators of simple Lie algebras in arbitrary characteristics, Math. Z. 262 (2009), 715–
741.
5. Gelfand-Kirillov conjecture in positive characteristics, J. Algebra 305 (2006), 820–844.
6. Corps enveloppants des algèbres de type Witt, J. Algebra 269 (2003), 669–700.
Other works
– Isomorphisme des corps enveloppants des algèbres de type Witt, complement to n o 6 above.
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Invited talks
September 2011 East China Normal University, Shanghai.
April 2011 Algebra Day in Caen.
March 2011 Conference “Darstellungstheorie Schwerpunkttagung”, Münster.
February 2011 Joint seminar Bremen-Hamburg-Kiel.
October 2007 Workshop “Geometry around the solvable radical”, Düsseldorf.
May 2007 9th NWDR Workshop, Cologne.
December 2006 University of Haifa.
December 2006 Bar-Ilan University.
October 2006 University of Bielefeld.
August 2006 Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot.
December 2005 University of Haifa.
November 2005 Bar-Ilan University.
November 2005 Weizmann Institute of Science.
April 2005 University of Washington, Seattle.
February 2005 Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris.
November 2004 Franco-Belgian Meeting “Tournesol Day”, Antwerp.
June 2003 Franco-Belgian Meeting “Tournesol Day”, Antwerp.
Selected reading group talks
Spring 2011 Mini-lecture series “Introduction to finite W-algebras” (after W. Wang).
Spring 2010 “Coherent sheaves, and the example of P 1 ”.
November 2008 “Weyl groups and root systems for Borcherds algebras” (after M. Wakimoto).
June 2008 “Basic properties of Hecke algebras”.
April 2008 “Lower bound for Auslander’s representation dimension” (after S.
Oppermann).
April 2007 “Introduction to group schemes”.
February 2007 “Closure of conjugacy classes of matrices are normal” (after H. Kraft and C.
Procesi).
January 2007 “A Littlewood-Richardson rule for symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebras” (after
P. Littelmann).
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Co-organisation of scientific events
Since 2009 Seminar “Representations and Algebraic Lie Theory”, Kiel.
http://www.math.uni-kiel.de/algebra/ReAL/ReALSeminar.html
November 2011 Reading course “Quasi-Hereditary Algebras”, Kiel.
http://www.math.uni-kiel.de/algebra/ReAL/pages/QuasiHereditary.html
Spring 2010 Small seminar “Selected Topics in Algebra”, Kiel.
http://www.math.uni-kiel.de/algebra/topics/StartSeminar.html
June 2009 Meeting “13th NWDR Workshop”, Kiel.
http://www.math.uni-kiel.de/algebra/NWDR13/nwdr13.html
Autumn 2008 Reading course “Borcherds-Kac-Moody algebras”, Bielefeld.
http://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/∼sek/sem/BKMWorkshop.html
October 2008 Workshop “ADE-Chains”, Bielefeld.
http://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/∼sek/ADE/
Sep 2008 – Mar 2009 Seminar “Representation Theory”, Bielefeld.
Other responsibilities
– Reviewer for Zentralblatt MATH.
– Referee:
– peer review (J. Algebra, Comm. in Algebra, Algebra Colloq., Algebra Number Theory,
Algebr. Represent. Theory, J. Algebra Appl....);
– Israel Science Foundation.
– Hiring committee, University of Kiel, 2011.
– PhD Proposal committee (examiner), University of Haifa, June 2006.
Miscellaneous
Software
– Matlab, good knowledge;
– GAP, basic experience.
Languages
– French, English, German, fluent;
– Modern Greek, adequate;
– German Sign Language, elementary conversation;
– Russian, Dutch, Latin, basic knowledge.
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