• 1992: Bac. C in Le Havre.
•  1992-93: Math Sup at Lycée Corneille (Rouen).
•  1993-95: Math Spé M' at Lycée Corneille
•  1995: Admissibility at Ecole Normale Superieure (rue d'Ulm, Paris). Rank 64 after the oral examination.
•  1995-96: 1st year of magistère at ENS Ulm, equivalent to the third and fourth years of University studies in mathematics, with grade : Mention Bien.
• 1996-97: Master (DEA) of Mathematics in Paris 7, grade: Mention Bien. Attended courses: Lie Groups (P. Gérardin), Algebraic Topology (M.Karoubi), NonCommutative Analysis (P. Krée), Vassiliev Invariants (P. Vogel), and (without exam) Quantum Field Theory (J-B Zuber).
•  Report under the direction of Pierre Vogel.
•  1997-January 2000: PhD in Grenoble under the direction of Christine Lescop (http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~lescop/).

Subject: the Configuration space integrals for links and tangles in R3.
It is made of an article in English (http://sylvainpoirier.fr/these.ps.gz) which is a new, united version of the two prepublished articles (math.GT/9901028 and math.GT/9902058), and an introduction in French presenting a classical fields version of the Chern-Simons gauge theory in the abelian and non-abelian cases (http://sylvainpoirier.fr/introthese.dvi), and introducing to the quantification problem of this field. See my thesis page : http://sylvainpoirier.fr/thesis.html
•  1998: Admission at the external agrégation of mathematics, option Mechanics.
•  January-March 2001: participation as "young researcher" in the European Research Training Network "Geometric Analysis" (http://www.dipmat.unian.it/rtn), in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (with Dorin Andrica). Submission of an article, finally published by Lucrarile seminarului de creativitate matematica (vol.10, 2001), titled "Une nouvelle introduction à la physique mathématique". September 2001-January 2002: Post-doctoral position with the EURROMMAT program at IMAR (Institute of mathematics of the Romanian academy, Bucharest).
• Feb-March 2002: once more in Cluj-Napoca as above.
• April-June 2002: also with Geometric Analysis RTN, but at IMPAN, Warsaw. The referee for my thesis article sumbitted to the AGT Journal asked to divide it again in two parts and make some improvements. The first part is now published at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol2/agt-2-40.abs.html .
• 2003-2004: Assistant professor of mathematics at Université de la Réunion

Other activities

1990: programming of the Mandelbrot set in machine language (via the BASIC language)

 1990-1991: I wrote (for myself) a formulation of electromagnetism from a relativistic point of view, in my way starting from some hints found in books. Little afterwards I did the same kind of thing with Einstein's equation of general relativity theory. Then I had some ideas of spinors and had a correspondance with Thibaut Damour.

 1992: 2nd price with the contest Kangaroo of Mathematics

 1993: 1st price with the contest Kangaroo of Mathematics

 1994: I started to write teaching texts of math in French presenting my understanding of a number of notions aside my studies (starting with special relativity, a bit of general relativity (cosmological models), non-euclidean geometries, continuing with some geometry, you can find them on my site http://sylvainpoirier.fr/sommaire in the pages of Relativity and Geometry).

1995: Special mention (instead of the price) at the Fermat Junior Price of mathematics, for a new method of resolution of the 3rd degree equations

 1997-98: 18 hours of teaching (math exercises) at the undergraduate level

 1998-99: 44 hours

 1998: Participation in the summer camp of mathematics for the youngs organised by the FFJM association.
1999: 2nd participation, where I presented the notions of spherical geometry and perspective, and let pupils do a little research.

In recent years : writing of texts of introduction to the foundations of maths (first in French; English version coming soon at http://settheory.net), physics (quantum physics, the nature of entropy), and other subjects.