• 1992: Bac. C (scientific bachelor) in Le Havre.
•  1992-95: Math Sup, Math Spé M' (intensive math higher education classes) at Lycée Corneille (Rouen).
•  1995: After short failure in the mAdmissibility at Ecole Normale Superieure (rue d'Ulm, Paris). Rank 64 after the oral examination.
•  1995-96: first year of Magistère of mathematics at ENS Ulm [= prestigious curriculum : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magistère_(diplôme), equivalent to both 3rd and 4rth university years in one year]
• 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 (Pierre. Vogel), and (without exam) Quantum Field Theory (J-B Zuber); work under the direction of P. 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
•  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 .
• Spring 2003: post-doc in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
• 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 on spinors.

 1992: 2nd prize at the contest Kangaroo of Mathematics

 1993: 1st prize at the contest Kangaroo of Mathematics

1995: Special mention (instead of the prize) at the Fermat Junior Price of mathematics, for a new method of resolution of cubic equations: http://settheory.net/cubic-equations

 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.

Starting in 1994, continuing more since 2004 : development of personal web sites on the foundations of maths and physics, and on philosophy:

• In French : http://spoirier.lautre.net
• In English :
• Economics and politics : http://infoliberalism.info , including a concept of a stable online money system : http://spoirier.lautre.net/money.htm
• Philosophy : http://antispirituality.net , including some notes on the nature of science and pseudo-science : http://antispirituality.net/science
• Foundations of Mathematics and Physics : http://settheory.net/ (including Set theory, Godel's Completeness and Incompleteness theorems, Special and General Relativity, introduction to quantum physics)