CV - Jan de Boer

    Universiteit van Amsterdam

       String Theory Group

                                                          POSITIONS

• 1993-1996 Postdoctoral Research Associate
                 State University of New York at Stony Brook
• 1996-1999 Postdoctoral Research Associate
                 University of California at Berkeley
• 1999-2000 Senior Researcher
                 Lorentz Institute, Leiden and Spinoza Institute, Utrecht
• 2000-       Full Professor
                 Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam

                                              EDUCATION

• 1984-1989     Undergraduate Studies, University of Groningen
• 1989             MSc in Physics (cum laude, GPA 9.3)
• 1989             MSc in Mathematics (cum laude, GPA 9.4)
• 1989-1993     PhD studies, University of Utrecht
• June 9, 1993  PhD degree

                                 AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• 1984             First place and gold medal, 15th International Physics Olympiad,
                     Sigtuna, Sweden
• 1984             Silver medal, 28th International Mathematics Olympiad,
                     Prague, Czechoslovakia
• 1995-1996     James Simons Fellowship, Stony Brook
• 1996-1998     Miller Fellowship, Berkeley

                                             PhD STUDENTS

• Robert Duivenvoorden (2004, thesis)
• Jeroen Wijnhout (2005, thesis)
• Rutger Boels (2005, thesis)
• Ilies Messamah (2009, thesis)
• Sheer El-Showk (2009, thesis)
• Marco Baggio (exp 2013)
• Kristian Holsheimer (exp 2014)
• Daniel Mayerson (exp 2015)
• Natalia Pinzani Fokeeva (exp 2015)
  

                                                   TEACHING

• Teaching assistant in various courses (1989-1993)
• A graduate course on conformal field theory (with P. van Nieuwenhuizen, 1994)
• A graduate reading course on string theory (Berkeley, 1998)
• A course on string theory (with N. Obers and R. Dijkgraaf, 1999 and 2001)
• An intensive two-month project on Cosmology and Inflation (kleine werkgroep, 2002)
• various other projects and courses (see education links on the left)

                                              PUBLICATIONS

• See publication link on the left

                                    ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOLS/CONFERENCES

• Workshop ``Non-Commutative Gauge Theory'', Leiden, November 22-26, 1999
• Amsterdam Summer Workshop, String Theory and Quantum Gravity, July 2001
• Amsterdam Summer Workshop, String Theory and Quantum Gravity, July 2002
• Workshop, Branes and Cosmology, Lorentz Center, Leiden, November 18-22, 2002
• Amsterdam Summer Workshop, String Theory and Quantum Gravity, June 2003
• Workshop, Time and String Theory, August 11-September 7, Aspen Center for Theoretical Physics
• Summer School, String Theory, from gauge interactions to cosmology, June 7-19, 2004, Cargese, France
• Amsterdam Summer Workshop, String Theory and Quantum Gravity, June 2005
• Amsterdam Summer Workshop, String Theory and Quantum Gravity, July 2006
• Summer School, Strings and Branes: The present paradigm for gauge interactions and cosmology, May 22- June 3, 2006, Cargese, France
• Amsterdam part of Brussels-Paris-Amsterdam PhD school, November 2006
• Director of the 2007 "Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics",
  Trieste, March 22-30, 2007
• Amsterdam part of Brussels-Paris-Amsterdam PhD school, November 2007
• Director of the 2008 "Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics",
  Trieste, March 27-April 4, 2008
• Summer School, String Theory, Theory and Particle Physics: the LHC perspective and beyond, June 16- June 28, 2008, Cargese, France
• Conference "Eurostrings 2008", June 30-July 4, Amsterdam
• Amsterdam Summer Workshop, String Theory and Quantum Gravity, July 2008
• Amsterdam part of Brussels-Paris-Amsterdam PhD school, November 2008
• Director of the 2009 "Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics",
  Trieste, March 23-March 31, 2009
• Amsterdam part of Brussels-Paris-Amsterdam PhD school, November-December 2009
• Director of the 2010 "Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics",
  Trieste, March 22-March 30, 2010
• BaisFest, June 15/16 2010
• Summer School, String Theory: Formal Developments and Applications, June 21- July 3, 2010, Cargese, France
• Amsterdam Summer Workshop on String Theory and Quantum Gravity, June 2010
• Amsterdam part of Brussels-Paris-Amsterdam PhD school, November-December 2010
• DRSTP School on Theoretical High Energy Physics, Campo Jordao, Brazil, February 2011
• Conference on Cold Materials, Hot Nuclei and Black Holes: Applied Gauge/Gravity Duality, Trieste, Italy, August 2011
• Amsterdam part of Brussels-Paris-Amsterdam PhD school, November-December 2011
• Conference on Branes and Black Holes, King's College, London, May 2012
  
• Summer School, Gauge Theory and String Theory, June 4- 16, 2012, Cargese, France
• Amsterdam Summer Workshop on String Theory and Quantum Gravity, July 2012
• Lorentz Center Workshop "Holographic Thermalization", Leiden, 8-12 October 2012
• Amsterdam part of Brussels-Paris-Amsterdam PhD school, December 2012

                                               COMMITTEES, ETC

• 1986-1987  Vice-President of the Physics and Mathematics Student Association FMF,
                  Groningen University
• 1987-1988  President Dutch Physics Students Foundation
• 1987-1990  Student Member of the Executive Committee of the Dutch Physical Association
                  NNV
• 1988-1990  Member Organizing Committee EPS-8, Amsterdam
• 1988-1990  President of Organizing Committee of ICPS'90, Amsterdam (International
                  Conference of Physics Students)
• 1999-2000  Interim-coordinator, Spinoza Institute, Utrecht
• 2003-2008  Coordinator Master Program Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam
• 2006-2008  Member Educational Committee DRSTP
• 2006-2007  Member BKO (Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs) implementation commitee, FNWI,
                  University of Amsterdam
• 2006-2011  Organizer National Seminar High-Energy Physics
• 2007-2010  Director "Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics", Trieste
• 2009-        Coordinator/Organizer GRAPPA, center for GRavity and AstroParticle Physics Amsterdam
• 2009-2010  Member ITFA moving committee
• 2010-        Member NORDITA program committee
• 2010-        Member CAN (Committee Astroparticle hysics Netherlands)
  
• 2010-        Substitute member "Universitaire Onderzoekscommissie"
• 2010-        Director, Graduate School of Sciences, University of Amsterdam
• 2012-        FOM Group Leader FOM-A-20
• 2012-        Chair, Graduate Studies Committee
• 2012-        Member Editorial Board of The Scientific World Journal
  

                                                  GRANTS

• FOM project Holographic Aspects of String Theory, 1999
• FOM project Strings, Black Holes and Holography, 2000 (with R. Dijkgraaf).
• FOM Programme String Theory and Quantum Gravity, 2001 (with R. Dijkgraaf, B. de Wit, G. 't Hooft, E. Bergshoeff , B. Schellekens).
• FOM project Holography and Topological Invariants, 2001 (with R. Dijkgraaf).
• FOM project String Theory and Cosmology, 2002 (with R. Dijkgraaf).
• Marie Curie Fellowship, L. Cornalba, 2002-2004
• FOM project String Theory Beyond Supergravity, 2003 (with K. Skenderis).
• FOM project Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and Matrix Models, 2004 (with R. Dijkgraaf).
• FOM project Topological Computations for Supersymmetric Gauge Theories, 2008 (with R. Dijkgraaf)
• Marie Curie Fellowship, T. Quella, 2007-2009
• FOM Programme A String Theoretic Approach to Cosmology and Quantum Matter, 2009 (with E. Verlinde, J.-P. van der Schaar, K. Skenderis, M. Taylor, E. Bergshoeff, S. Vandoren, K. Schalm, A. Achúcarro, J. Zaanen)
• FOM project An Entropic View on Gravity and the Cosmos, 2010 (with E. Verlinde)
• Structural UvA support for GRAPPA (with R. Wijers and S. Bentvelsen), 2010
  

                                 TALKS/LECTURES (SINCE 2004)

• Snaartheorie, talk at Praedinius Gymnasium Groningen, February 13, 2004.
• Strings and Matrices, March 23, overview talk, Fourth Eurogrid Meeting  Random Geometry: theory and applications Les Houches, march 22-26, 2004
• Wrapped Branes and Non-Perturbative Gauge Theory, March 25, Strings, Gauge Fields and Duality, University of Wales, Swansea, 24th -27th March 2004
• Wrapped Branes and Non-Perturbative Gauge Theory, Berkeley,
  April 22, 2004
• Non-Perturbative Gauge Theories, lecture series on May 13,14,
  18th Nordic Network Meeting on Fields, Strings and Branes,
  Groningen, the Netherlands, May 13-15, 2004
• The Topological G_2 String, June 14, 2004, lecture at
  String Theory, from gauge interactions to cosmology, Cargese
  summer school, June 7-19, Cargese, France
• String Theory and Non-Perturbative Gauge Theory, lecture
  series on June 22 and June 25, Modern Trends in String Theory, Oporto,
  Portugal, June 21-26, 2004
• Aspects of Nonperturbative SYM and String Theory, overview
  lecture, August 26, 37th International Symposium Ahrenshoop on the Theory of
  Elementary Particles: Recent Developments in String/M-Theory and
  Field Theory, 23-27 August, 2004
• The Topological G_2 Strings, Berkeley, October 13, 2004
• The Topological G_2 Strings, CERN, November 9, 2004
• The Topological G_2 String, IU Bremen, November 18, 2004
• Non-perturbative Quantum Field Theory and String Theory, November 26, 2004,
  review talk at 1st Vienna Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and
  Quantum Field Theory, Vienna, Austria, November 26-28, 2004
• Supersymmetric Gauge Theories I, Utrecht, December 8, 2004
• Supersymmetric Gauge Theories II, Utrecht, December 10, 2004
• Supersnaren, talk at Viva Fysica, meeting for high
  school students and teachers, January 14, 2005
• The topological G2 string, talk at Physics
  Department, University of Munich, February 10, 2005
• String Theory: an update, talk at Santiago de
  Compostela, March 29, 2005
• The topological G2 string, talk at Santiago de
  Compostela, March 30, 2005
• The topological G2 string, talk at Trinity
  College, Dublin, April 4, 2005
• Issues in supersymmetric gauge theories, invited
  plenary talk at conference "Beyond the Standard Model," Bad
  Honnef, 14-17 April.
• Supersnaren, talk for first year students, April 22, 2005
• The topological G2 string, talk at the
  String-Cosmology workshop, Uppsala, April 25-28, 2005
• J. de Boer, The topological G2 string, talk at the
  Bernardfest, Driebergen, May 27-28, 2005
• Black holes and random partitions, talk at workshop on
  random partitions and Calabi-Yau crystals, Institute for
  Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, June 2, 2005
• Tweegesprek: 100 jaar Einstein - relativiteitstheorie
  revisited? together with Ralph Wijers, at annual UvA alumnidag 2005.
• Quantum gravity as an emergent phenomenon,
  talk at the university of Berkeley, Sept 27, 2005
• Quantum gravity as an emergent phenomenon,
  talk at university of Barcelona, Barcelona, October 20, 2005
• Quantum gravity as an emergent phenomenon,
  talk at DESY, Hamburg, November 9, 2005
• The topological G2 string, talk at Queen Mary,
  London, November 17, 2005
• Quantum gravity as an emergent phenomenon,
  talk at University Tor Vergata, Rome, November 18, 2005
• Voorbij het standaard model, talk at the VvTP
  symposium 2005 Elementary Particle Physics - ever heard of Higgs?,
  University of Delft, November 22, 2005
• What is the dual of a dipole, invited talk at the
  University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, December 15, 2005
• String Theory", talk for first year students, March 17, 2006
• "On the origin of gravitational thermodynamics", talk at the international conference
  WORKSHOP ON BLACK HOLES, BLACK RINGS AND TOPOLOGICAL STRINGS
  Munich, 31 Mar – 4 Apr 2006 (talk given on April 3)
• On the origin of gravitational thermodynamics, talk at the international conference
  "Cosmology, Strings, and Black Holes", Kopenhagen, April 18-21 2006 (talk given on April 18)
• Supersnaren, de theorie omtrent materie, ruimte en tijd, 8 September 2006,
  lezing voor stichting JC van der Meulen, sterrenkundige organisatie, te Hoorn
• Gauge-Gravity Duality, series of lectures at:
  Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, Advanced String Theory School, from 17th - 23rd Sept, 2006
• Topological G2 Strings, talk at the international conference
  "M-Theory in the City", November 9-11, 2006 (talk given on November 9)
• Kaluza-Klein Compactification, series of lectures for PhD students for the
  Brussels-Paris-Amsterdam PhD school, November 13-24 (lectures on November 13,14,15)
• Ruimte, Tijd en de Quantumwereld van Snaren, op 13 December 2006, voordracht voor de
  stichting Sociaal en Cultureel Werk, Holten.
• "Black holes and modular invariance", talk at ENS, Paris, January 11, 2007.
• "Black holes and modular invariance", talk at Durham, January 19, 2007.
• "Black holes and modular invariance", talk at the Swiss Geneziss
  meeting, Zurich, February 2nd, 2007.
• "Black holes and modular invariance", talk at Swansea,  February 23rd, 2007
• "Snaartheorie", voordracht voor de Wolters-Noordhoff sciencedag, Ede,
  14 maart, 2007
• "Strings, black holes and AdS3", talk the conference
  "String and M theory approaches to particle physics and cosmology",
  Florence, March 21-23, 2007 (talk given on March 22nd)
• "Black holes in string theory", series of lectures at
  the "Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics",
  Trieste, March 22-30, 2007 (4 talks given on March 27-30).
• "Black holes in string theory", series of lectures at
  the IPM String school and workshop, April 9-18, 2007. (3 talks given
  on April 10 and 11).
• "Snaartheorie", voordracht voor 1e jaars studenten, highlights, Amsterdam,
  20 april 2007.
• Emergence of spacetime and gravitational entropy II, talk
  at the international Sowers Theoretical Physics Workshop 2007
  “What is String Theory?”, May 14 - 18, 2007, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg.
  (talk given on May 15).
• Voordracht over olympiades, SLO forum, Eschede, 24 mei, 2007.
• "Resolving black holes using AdS/CFT", talk at Strings 2007, Madrid, June 25-29, talk given on June 27.
• "Multi-center AdS black holes", talk given at the
  International Conference on Symmetries of String Theory
  Ascona, Switzerland, August 26-31, 2007; talk given on August 29.
• "Multi-center AdS3 black holes",
  talk at the international conference
  "Progress of String Theory and Quantum Field Theory", Osaka, December 7-10, 2007. Talk given on Dec 9.
• "Gravity as an emergent thermodynamic phenomenon", talk at the
  7a Trobada de Nadal de Física Teòrica a la Universitat de Barcelona,
  December 19+20, 2007, Barcelona, talk given on December 20.
• "Black Hole Microstates", series of four one-hour
  lectures, RTN Winter School on Strings, Supergravity and Gauge
  Theories Search, January 21-25, 2008, CERN, Geneva.
• "Introduction to the AdS/CFT Correspondence," talk at the
  workshop "Integrability in the AdS/CFT correspondence", Utrecht,
  January 29-31, 2008.
• "Snaartheorie", voordracht voor 1e jaars studenten, highlights,
  Amsterdam, 29 Februari 2008.
• "Black Hole Microstates", series of three one-hour
  lectures, Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics,
  Trieste, Italy, March 27-April 4, 2008.
• "Black hole boundstates in AdS3", talk at the conference:
  String Theory, From Theory to Experiment, April 6-11, 2008
  Jerusalem, Israel.
• "Black hole boundstates in AdS3", talk at DAMTP,
  Cambridge, UK, April 23, 2008.
• "De toekomst van de theoretische fysica", voordracht bij de
  studenten conferentie "Fysica Voorspeld", 4 Juni 2008, Nijmegen.
• Quantization of gravitational solution", talk at the
  conference: Gravitational Thermodynamics and the Quantum Nature of
  Space Time, Jun 16, 2008 - Jun 20, 2008, Edinburgh, UK.
• Black Hole Microstates, talk at the Cargese Summer
  School "Theory and Particle Physics: the LHC perspective and
  beyond", June 16 to June 28, 2008, Cargese, France.
• Black Hole Quantization, talk at the workshop "Emerging
  Directions in String Theory", June 23-27, 2008, Banff, Canada.
• "Macroscopic quantum effects in supersymmetric black holes",
  talk given at the CERN THEORY INSTITUTE Black Holes: A
  Landscape of Theoretical Physics Problems, 25 August - 5 October
  2008, Geneva, Switzerland. Lecture given on Sept 30.
• "Black Hole Berry phase", talk given at the CERN THEORY
  INSTITUTE Black Holes: A Landscape of Theoretical Physics
  Problems, 25 August - 5 October 2008, Geneva, Switzerland. Lecture
  given on Oct 1.
• "Black Holes as Effective Geometries", series of lectures
  at: The 22nd Nordic Network Meeting on "Strings, Fields and
  Branes" 27-29 November 2008, Stockholm, Sweden.
• "Brownian Motion in AdS/CFT", lecture at the London
  Triangle seminar on String Theory, December 10, 2008, Queen Mary,
  London, UK.
• Brownian motion in AdS/CFT, talk at 5th (1st Iberian) Workshop on Gravitational Aspects of Strings and Branes, Gijón (Asturias), 3-5 February 2009.
• Brownian motion and AdS/CFT, talk at Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, February 17, 2009.
• Black Holes as Effective Geometries, series of four one-hour
  lectures, Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics,
  Trieste, Italy, March 23-31, 2009.
• Macroscopic quantum effects near black holes, talk at Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg, April 23, 2009.
• Macroscopic quantum effects near black holes, talk at
  Workshop on "Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics",
  Brussels, 13-16 May 2009
• Macroscopic quantum effects near black holes, talk at the 4th International Sakharov Conference on Physics, Lebedev Institute, Moscow, May 18-23, 2009.
• A bound on the entropy of supergravity?, talk at Spinoza Institute, Utrecht, June 12, 2009.
• Quantum Aspects of Black Holes, talk at 14th Itzykson Meeting on String Theory, Saclay, June 17-19, 2009.
• Brownian motion and AdS/CFT, talk given at 39th Summer Institute, Ecole Normale
  Superieure, Paris, August 17-28, 2009
• Brownian motion and AdS/CFT, talk given at the workshop on the Fluid-Gravity
  Correspondence, Munich, September 2-7, 2009
• Assorted comments about black holes, talk given at the conference "A New Year
  of String theory," Tel Aviv, September 21-25, 2009
• Quantum Aspects of Black Holes, talk at the international workshop "Branes,
  Strings and Black Holes" September 28-November 1, 2009
• Voorbij Tijd en Ruimte, Cosmologie volgens de Snaartheorie, Science Cafe Nijmegen, 6 November 2009
• Quantum Aspects of Black Holes, talk at the workshop "Holography and Universality of Black Holes", McGill, Montreal, November 6-8
• Quantum Aspects of Black Holes, talk given at the second SUPERFIELDS meeting in Padova, Italy, on December 16, 2009
• Holography, quantum gravity and black holes, general physics colloquium, AlbaNova/Nordita, Stockholm, February 18, 2010
• (Non) geometric Aspects of Black Hole Microstates, talk at Strings 2010, College Station, Texas, USA, March 15-19, 2010
• (Non)Geometric aspects of black holes and their microstates, series of four one-hour lectures, Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics, Trieste, Italy, March 22-30, 2010.
• Why Black Holes are Difficult, talk at Inaugural Workshop on Black Holes in Supergravity and M/Superstring Theory, Penn State, USA, September 2010
• Black Holes and Exotic States, talk at Crete Conference on Gauge Theories and the Structure of Spacetime, Kolymvari, Crete, September 2010
• Black Holes and Exotic States, talk at London Triangle Seminar, King's College, London, October 2010
• Holography, Quantum Gravity and Black Holes, general physics colloquium, Trondheim, November 2010
• Black Holes and Exotic States, talk at Desy, Hamburg, November 2010
• Tijd, talk at Antropologisch Congres van de Tijdsbeleving, Student organization Kwakiutl, Amterdam, December 2010
  
• Holography, neutron stars and quantum effects near black holes, talk at Liverpool High-Energy Physics group, December 2010
• Introduction to AdS/CFT, series of lectures at the 16th summer school Jorge Andre Swieca of Particles and Fields, Campos do Jordao, Brazil, February 2011
• Holography, Entanglement and Thermalization, talk at conference "Great Lakes Strings 2011", Chicago, USA, April 2011
• Holography, Entanglement and Thermalization, talk at workshop "Gauge Theories, Strings and Geometry," Brussels, May 2011
• Some recent results on microstate geometries, talk at IPMU, Tokyo, May 2011
• Holography, Entanglement and Thermalization, talk at NBI, Copenhagen, June 2011
• Time, Space and Gravity, evening talk at the annual SRON meeting, Dalfsen, June 2011
  
• Introduction to AdS/CFT, series of lectures at Les Houches Summer School "Theoretical physics to face the challenge of LHC," August 2011
• Some lessons from AdS/CFT, talk at ESF Exploratory Workshop "Gravity as Thermodynamics: towards the microscopic origin of geometry", Trieste, Italy, September 2011
• String theory and black holes, review talk at 17th European Workshop on String Theory, Padova, Italy, September 2011
• Comments on extremal black holes, talk at workshop "String Theory, Holography and Beyond", Seoul, Korea, September 2011
• Antimatter, introduction, antimatter theme evening Biosfeer Student Organization, Amsterdam, September 2011
  
• Black holes in string theory, talk at Nikhef theory group, Amsterdam, October 2011
• Holography and black holes, Colloquium at TSU Andronikahvili Institute of Physics, Tbilisi, Georgia, October 2011
• Supersymmetric solutions and their entropy, talk at Workshop "The supersymmetric, the extremal and the ugly - solutions in string theory", Saclay, November 2011 
• Lifshitz vs Lifshitz, talk at workshop "Paris meeting on holography at finite density", APC, Paris, November 2011
• Extremal black holes in string theory, talk at ICTP, Trieste, December 2011
• Holographic Renormalisation, talk at KITP conference "Gravity, Black Holes and Condensed Matter," Chicheley Hall, April 2012
• Holographic Nuclear Matter, talk at Spinoza Institute, Utrecht, May 2012
• Some Thoughts on Black Hole Microstates, talk at KITP conference "Black Holes and Information," KITP Santa Barbara, May 2012
• Some Thoughts on Black Hole Microstates, talk at "Branes and Black Holes (A London Satellite Meeting)," King's College, London, May 2012
• Chiral Symmetry Restoration in Holographic QCD?, talk at the workshop "Applications of Gauge-Gravity Duality," Technion, Haifa, Israel, June 2012