last modified JUN 2005

Vincent Franjou

Université de Nantes
Laboratoire Jean-Leray, Département de mathématiques
2, rue de la Houssinière, BP 92208
44322 Nantes cedex 3
France

franjou-at-math.univ-nantes.fr

married, two children

Experience

Sept.2000-March 2001: Visiting Professor Northwestern University (Illinois)
1996 - present: Professeur Université de Nantes (Nantes, France)
1989 - 1996: Maître de Conférences Université Paris-Sud (Orsay, France)
1988 - 1989: FNS Research position Université de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland)
1984 - 1986: National Service High School teacher Lycée Français (London, England)
 

Education

March 2, 1994: Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches, Université d'Orsay
March 11, 1988: Ph.D. Université de Nantes, advisor: Pierre Vogel
1982-83: Graduate student Harvard and M.I.T. (Cambridge, MA)
1981: Agrégation de Mathématiques (higher competitive exam in Education)
1979 - 1984: Student École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France)
 

Grants

1991 (renewed 1996, 2000, 2004): Contrat d'encadrement doctoral
1982-83: Harvard University Grant (Cambridge, MA)
 

Publications

[ ] with Lionel Schwartz, Hypersurfaces et homotopie stable de U,
Comptes-Rendus de l'Acad. Sc. Paris, t. 299, Série I, no 13, 619--622 (1984)
[1] Quelques éléments dans l'homotopie stable du groupe unitaire,
Bulletin de la Soc. Math. France 115, 309--328 (1987)
[ ] Modules et Algèbres instables sur l'Algèbre de Steenrod: une Etude aux Nilpotents près.
Thèse de doctorat, Université de Nantes, 1988.
[2] with Lionel Schwartz, Reduced unstable A-modules and the modular representation theory of the symmetric groups,
Annales Sci. de l'École Norm. Sup., 4e série, t.23, 593--624 (1990)
[3] with David J. Benson Séries de composition de modules instables et injectivité de la cohomologie du groupe Z/2,
Math. Z. 208, 389--399 (1991)
[4] with Jean Lannes and Lionel Schwartz, Autour de la cohomologie de MacLane des corps finis,
Inventiones Math. 115, 513--538 (1994)
[5] with Jeffrey H. Smith, A duality for polynomial functors,
Journal Pure Appl. Algebra 104, 33--39 (1995)
[ ] Complexes naturels d'espaces vectoriels sur un corps fini et applications homologiques.
Mémoire d'habilitation, Université Paris-Sud, 1993
[6] Extensions entre puissances extérieures et entre puissances symétriques,
Journal of Algebra 179, 501--522 (1996)
[7] with Teimuraz Pirashvili, On the MacLane cohomology for the ring of integers,
Topology 37-1, 109--114 (1998)
[8] with Eric M. Friedlander, Alexander Skorichenko and Andrei Suslin, General Linear and Functor Cohomology over finite fields,
Annals of Math. 150, 663--728 (1999)
ZB review .pdf
[9] with Hans-Joachim Baues, Winfried Dreckmann,  andTeimuraz Pirashvili, Foncteurs polynômiaux et foncteurs de Mackey non-linéaires,
Bull. Soc. math. France 129 (2), 2001, 237--257
.ps.gz, .ps , .dvi
[10] with Teimuraz Pirashvili, Stable K-theory is bifunctor homology (after A. Scorichenko),
in Rational Representations, the Steenrod Algebra and Functor Homology. Panoramas et Synthèses 16, 107--126 (2003)
[11] Introduction,
in Rational Representations, the Steenrod Algebra and Functor Homology. Panoramas et Synthèses 16, xiii--xxi (2003)
[12] with Teimuraz Pirashvili, Comparison of abelian categories recollements,
Documenta Math. 9, 41--56 (2004)
Abstract 2k, .dvi.gz 25k, .dvi 64k, .ps.gz 546k, .pdf 167k

Invited Addresses, International

June 20, 2003 : Representation theory around the channel (Amiens)
September 17, 2001: Second Algebra and Topology Week (Leicester, UK)
March-April 2001: Max Planck Inst. Math. (Bonn, Germany)
February 24, 2001: Midwest Topology Meeting (Chicago, IL)
January 16, 2001: University of Chicago (IL)
December 5-8, 2000: Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN)
July 20-23, 1999: Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
March 24-28, 1999: Conférence Franco-Géorgienne de Mathématiques (Strasbourg, France)
January 4-9, 1999: Polynomial functors in Topology and Algebra (MPI, Schloss Ringberg, Germany)
October 20-24, 1997: Théorie des représentations et applications (Luminy, France).
July 8-20, 1996: University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
May 24-June 2, 1996: Fields Institute (Toronto, Canada)
June 19-25, 1995: Homotopy Theory (Gargnano, Italy)
July 6-28, 1993: Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN)
June 22-26, 1993: Cech Centennial Homotopy Conference (Boston, MA)
June 29 - July 3, 1992: K-théorie (Strasbourg, France)
April 6-11, 1992: Universität Bielefeld (Bielefeld, Germany)
March 1-7, 1992: Klassifizierende Raüme und Anwendungen der Steenrod-Algebra (Oberwolfach, Germany)
December 2-16, 1990: Universität Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany)
July 1-15, 1990: Adams Memorial Symposium (Manchester, England)
July 1988: Théorie de l'Homotopie (Luminy, France)

Ph.D. Students Directed

International Conferences Organized

Co-organizer with Lionel Schwartz:
December 12 - 15, 2001: "Polynomial functors, unstable modules and the cohomology of finite group schemes", series of lectures, in Nantes

Co-organizer with Jean-Claude Thomas:
September 3-7, 2001:  EuroConference in Algebraic Topology , in Nantes
September 2-8, 1998: Conference in Algebraic Topology 98, in Angers. Satellite of ICM Berlin (104 participants)
May 8-10, 1997: Homotopie in Nantes (40 participants)

Administration

ANR expert
Elected Member Comité National du CNRS (2004-2008)
DSPT expert (2001-2004)
Director of the Mathematics department (2002-2004)
Elected Member Conseil d'Administration de l'Université (1999-2000)
Elected Member Conseil Scientifique de la Faculté des Sciences
Vice-President Commission de Spécialistes (hiring committee for Mathematics Dept. - over 300 applications yearly)
Member Commission des Thèses de l'Ouest (the committee examines Ph.D. and Habilitation applications for five western Universities)
Nominated member Comité Consultatif Régional de la Recherche et du Développement Technologique (Advisatory Board at the Regional level)
Director Licence de Mathématiques (Third Year Program - over 200 students yearly, 1997-2000)