Boris Pioline
Directeur de recherches au CNRS

Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies (LPTHE),
Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 and CNRS,
Tour 13-14, 4ème étage, Boite 126,
4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris FRANCE

Couloir 13-14, 4ème étage, bureau 4-16 ; Tel: (33) 1 44 27 74 29 - Fax: (33) 1 44 27 70 88

On leave from June 1, 2011 at:

CERN PH-TH
Case C01600, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23

Office 4/1-068 ;  Tel: (41) 22 767 2439 - Fax: (41) 22 767 3850
[ General | Publications | Seminars | Teaching ]

General public :
  • "De la pomme à la supercorde", Colloquium, Caen, 22/12/06 (Powerpoint)
  • "Cordes, branes, horizons: surfaces fluctuantes et théries unifiées", 3/11/09 , ENSTA, Paris.

Some recent and not so recent seminar/conference slides :
  • "D-effects in String Theory" at CERN, 25/11/97
  • "D-effects in String Theory" at ENSLAPP, Annecy, 27/11/97
  • "M-theory and U-duality, a group theory approach" at Hamburg workshop on D-brane CFT's, 11/09/98.
  • "M-theory and U-duality, an algebraic approach" at CERN, 7/12/98 .
  • "Duality and Large dimensions" at NBI and NORDITA, 2/03/99 .
  • "Duality and Low Scale Strings" at Saclay, 22/03/99 .
  • "Self-duality, theme and variations" at CERN, 09/08/00 .
  • "Irrational non-commutative gauge theories" at Kolymbari, Crete, 14/09/00.
  • "Fuzzy branes and solitons" at AEI Potsdam, 01/09/00 . and LPTHE Paris, 25/09/00.
  • "Non-perturbative amplitudes and instantons effects in string/M-theory" at Seoul, 12/2000.
  • "Exceptional Theta series and the quantum BPS membrane" at Cambridge UK, 11/02/02 .
  • "Strings in homogeneous wave backgrounds and null holography" at Harvard, 11/04/02 and U Penn, 1/05/02.
  • "Holography in homogeneous wave backgrounds" at Euresco Meeting, Bad Herrenalb, 02/06/02 .
  • "Non Gaussian Theta series and the supermembrane" at TH2002, Unesco, Paris, 22/07/02 .
  • "M-theory and automorphic forms" at LPM, Montpellier, 24/10/02 .
  • "Conformal quantum mechanics and Quantum cosmology" at Leuven, 14/11/02 and Paris, TMR meeting, 12/12/02 .
  • "Open strings in electric fields and time-dependent backgrounds" at Spinoza Institute, Utrecht, 16/05/03 ,.
  • Same in Institut Henri Poincaré Paris, 21/05/03 , and Tor Vergata University, Rome, 26/05/03 .
  • "Open strings in electric fields and the Milne Universe" at Strings 2003, Kyoto, 10/06/03 .
  • "Aspect de la theorie des cordes dans un champ de fond dependant du temps", habilitation thesis defense at LPTHE, 19/09/03
  • "Open strings in electric fields and the Milne Universe" at DAMTP, Cambridge, 25/09/03.
  • "Closed strings in the Milne Universe, and electric fields" at Neve Shalom, Israel, 28/10/03 .
  • "Closed strings in the Misner Universe" at NBI, Danemark, 2/12/03 and GreCO, Paris, 11/02/04 .
  • "Closed strings in the Misner Universe, aka the Lorentzian orbifold" at Amsterdam, 17/02/04 , Harvard, 11/03/04 , 
  • Same at Imperial College, London, 7/05/04 , CERN, 25/05/04 , IAP String Cosmology workshop, 18/06/04, and Durham University, 12/11/04 .
  • "Small black hole degeneracies and the topological string amplitude" at London Triangular Meeting, 16/03/05, and Ecole Polytechnique, 22/03/05 .
  • "Small black hole degeneracies and the topological string amplitude" at ICTP Conference, Moscow, 11/04/05
  • "Closed strings in the Misner Universe, a toy model of the Big Crunch ?" at String Cosmology Workshop, Uppsala, 25/04/05
  • "Black hole entropy and topological string theory" at LPTHE, Paris, 29/04/05 and CERN, 24/05/05
  • "Automorphic forms and black holes" at Leiden, 30/08/05 .
  • "The quantum attractor mechanism" at Caltech, 11/11/05 , Berkeley 29/11/05 (black board), and KITP, 6/12/05
  • "Black hole degeneracies, topological strings and quantum attractors" RTN Winter School, CERN, 16-20/01/06 [ Lectures 1,2 | Lecture 3 | Lecture 4 ]
  • "Quantum attractor flows", at ASC workshop on black holes, black rings and topological strings, Munich, 03/04/06
  • "Quantum attractor flows", at Amsterdam U, 23/05/06 , featuring BEAMER style for the first time !
  • "Black holes and automorphic forms", at CIRM workshop on Langlands program etc, 5/07/06
  • "Quantizing BPS black holes", at Utrecht, 05/10/06 , Trieste, 10/10/06 , Oxford 06/11/06 .
  • "Quantizing BPS black holes", at "M-theory in the City" workshop, London, 10/11/06 and Indian Strings Meeting, Puri, 12/12/06 (40 mins)
  • "Quantum Attractor Flows", at Pisa, 27/03/07 and Newe Shalom, 10/04/07
  • "Quantum Attractors and Black Hole Partition Functions", at SPhT Saclay, 28/09/07 and LPTA Montpellier, 22/10/07 (black board talks)
  • "Quantum Attractors and Black Hole Partition Functions", at Toronto U, 22/11/07
  • "Representation Theory and Automorphic Black Hole Partition Functions", workshop "Formes automorphes: Physique et Mathematiques", in Lille, 12/12/07 (black board talk).
  • "Instanton corrections and black hole partition functions", workshop "Gravitational Thermodynamics and the Structure of Space Time", Edinburgh, 17/06/08
  • "BPS black holes and topological strings", invited review talk at Strings 2008 Conference, CERN, 22/08/08 [ Webcast ]
  • "Black holes, instantons and twistors", black board talk at IHES, 12/09/08 and CERN, 15/09/08
  • "Black holes, instantons and twistors", 19/11/08 , Leuven.
  • "Instanton corrected hypermultiplet moduli spaces and black hole counting", Workshop on derived geometry and stability, Stony Brook 17/01/09 (black board talk).
  • "Instanton corrected hypermultiplet moduli spaces and black hole counting", 22/01/09 , Harvard.
  • "Hypermultiplets, instantons and black holes", Galileo Galilei Institute, 15/04/2009.
  • "Hypermultiplets, instantons and black holes", Workshop on Mirror Symmetry, University of Bonn, 2-5/06/2009 (black board).
  • "Progress on hypermultiplet moduli spaces", 28/01/10 , ZMP Hamburg.
  • "Progress on hypermultiplet moduli spaces", 15/02/10 , Trinity College, Dublin.
  • "Fivebrane instantons, topological wave-functions and hypermultiplets", 27/07/10 , ESI Vienna.
  • "Hypermultiplet moduli spaces in type II string theories: a survey", 30/08/10 , IHP, Paris.
  • "Wall-crossing from Boltzmannian Black Hole Halos", 18/10/10 , PICS meeting, London.
  • "Wall-crossing from Boltzmannian Black Hole Halos", 28/10/10 , AGMP-6 meeting, Tjarno.
  • "Lectures on instantons, wall-crossing and hypermultiplet moduli spaces", 18-19/11/10 , ICTP Trieste [in progress, for physicists].
  • "Quaternionic geometry, instanton corrections and wall-crossing", 23/11,30/11,7/11/10 , IMJ, Paris [for mathematicians].
  • "Hypermultiplet moduli spaces in type II string theories: a mini-survey", 5/01/11 , ISM 2011 meeting, Puri, India.
  • "Wall-crossing from multicentered BPS quantum black holes", 9/02/11 , Hebrew U, Jerusalem.
  • "Hyperinstantons, black holes and wall-crossing", 14/03/11 , XXIIIth Workshop "Beyond the Standard Model", Bad Honnef.
  • "Wall-crossing from multicentered BPS quantum black holes", 27/04/11 , DAMTP, Cambridge.
  • "Automorphy in hypermultiplet moduli spaces", 12/05/11 , BIRS workshop, Banff, Canada.
  • "Wall-crossing from multicentered BPS quantum black holes", 19/05/11 , Solvay conference, Bruxelles.
  • "Wall-crossing from multicentered BPS quantum black holes", 23/05/11 , IPHT, Saclay.
  • "Wall-crossing from multicentered BPS quantum black holes", 7/06/11 , CERN.
  • "QK/HK correspondence, wall-crossing and the Rogers dilogarithm", 25/10/11 , AGMP Mulhouse, 2011
  • "Three ways across the wall ", 25/01/12 , CERN.
Last updated on Jan 25, 2012.