Mathieu Dutour
About me
I am currently working as an ATER at Université Jean Monnet, in Saint-Étienne, France.
My main mathematical interest is Arakelov geometry, a relatively recent discipline which involves many other fascinating areas of research, such as complex and algebraic geometry, number theory, spectral theory, functional analysis, to name but a few. There are two different parts to my research project.
As a continuation of my doctoral thesis, which I did at Sorbonne Université with Gerard Freixas i Montplet, I study situations in Arakelov geometry where metrics present singularities, and I try to get Riemann-Roch type theorems there. For instance, modular curves are of great interest to me, but toric varieties, Picard modular surfaces, Hilbert modular surfaces and other types of Shimura varieties are some of the other objects that I am interested in.
Building on my postdoctoral project at the University of Alberta, with Manish Patnaik, I also study the relation between loop groups and Arakelov geometry, particularly in the framework developped by Bost and Charles of pro-Hermitian vector bundles and theta invariants. At the moment, I am particularly interested in Archimedean completions of loop algebras, and in defining loop groups acting on Hilbert spaces, with a dash of Virasoro algebras in there.
Here, you can find my most recent research project in English, and a French version of it.
Email address: mathieu.dutour@univ-st-etienne.fr
Questions and comments are welcome! Also, please let me know if there are any dead links.
Research articles and preprints
M. Dutour, Pseudo-Laplacian on a cuspidal end with a flat unitary line bundle: Alvarez-Wentworth boundary conditions. Arxiv: 2211.04040.
70 pages.M. Dutour, M. Patnaik, Infinite-rank Euclidean Lattices and Loop Groups, Arxiv: 2203.08976. To appear in proceedings of M.V. Subbarao Centennial volume.
36 pages.M. Dutour, Pseudo-Laplacian on a cuspidal end with a flat unitary line bundle: Dirichlet boundary conditions. Arxiv: 2106.05412.
95 pages.
Theta-finite pro-Hermitian vector bundles from loop groups elements
This talk was held on November 28th, 2022 for the Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar at the University of Lethbridge, in Alberta, Canada.
Sound level drops at around 7:00 due to some technical issue, but the talk can still be heard.
Note: Every available video recording of my talks can be accessed in the section "Research presentations" below.
Quillen metrics on modular curves
This talk was held on November 6th, 2021, during the Alberta Number Theory Days at Banff International Research Station, in Alberta, Canada.
Note: Every available video recording of my talks can be accessed in the section "Research presentations" below.
Research project
Research presentations
Number theory seminar, Institut Fourier, Université Grenoble Alpes, November 23rd, 2023. Slides.
The slides are in French. Website of the seminar.
Title: Une isométrie de Deligne-Riemann-Roch pour les fibrés pour les courbes modulaires et fibrés plats unitaires.Global invariants of arithmetic varieties, CIRM, Luminy, October 12th, 2023. Slides.
Website of the conference. Conference dedicated to José Ignacio Burgos Gil.
Title: Quillen metrics on modular curves.Séminaire Groupes Réductifs et Formes Automorphes (Reductive groups and automorphic forms seminar), IMJ-PRG, Université Paris-Cité, March 6th, 2023. Slides. The slides are in French. Website of the seminar.
Title: Fibrés vectoriels pro-hermitiens et groupes de lacets. (Pro-Hermitian vector bundles and loop groups)Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar, University of Lethbridge, November 28th, 2022. Slides. Video of the talk. Alternative link to the video.
Website of the seminar.
Title: Theta-finite pro-Hermitian vector bundles from loop groups elements.Intercity Seminar on Arakelov Geometry 2022 (September 12th - 16th), La Cristalera (near Madrid, Spain), September 15th, 2022. Slides. (Slide 2/22 has been slightly updated after the talk). Website of the conference.
Title: Loop groups and Pro-Hermitian vector bundles.GAP Seminar (Geometry, Algebra, Physics), University of Alberta, December 1st, 2021. Slides.
Website of the seminar.
Title: A Deligne-Riemann-Roch isometry for flat unitary vector bundles over modular curves.Alberta Number Theory days, Banff research station, November 6th, 2021. Slides. Video. Alternative link to the video. Other alternative link.
Website of the conference.
Title: Quillen metrics on modular curves.Thesis defense, Sorbonne Université, September 22nd, 2020. Slides (in French). Thesis (in English).
Title: A Deligne-Riemann-Roch isometry for flat unitary vector bundles on modular curves.
Jury: Jean-Benoît Bost, José Ignacio Burgos Gil, Gerard Freixas i Montplet, Colin Guillarmou, Kai Köhler, Xiaonan Ma, Frederic Naud, Richard Wentworth.Inaugural conference for the Franco-Korean LIA, Bordeaux, November 25th, 2019.
Website of the conference.
Title: Quillen metrics on modular curves.Ph.D. students seminar, University of Amiens, March 20th, 2019.
Title: A Deligne-Riemann-Roch isometry on modular curves.Ph.D. students seminar, Paris-Diderot University, February 20th, 2019.
Title: A Deligne-Riemann-Roch isometry on modular curves.
CV
2023-2024, ATER at Université Grenoble Alpes.
2021-2023, Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), department of mathematical and statistical sciences.
Supervisor: Manish Patnaik
Recruited in 2020, though officially started in 2021.2016-2020, Ph.D. student at Sorbonne Université (Paris, France), IMJ-PRG (Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu - Paris Rive Gauche).
Supervisor: Gerard Freixas i Montplet
Topic: A Deligne-Riemann-Roch isometry for flat unitary vector bundles on modular curves.
Defended on September 22nd, 2020 in front of a jury composed of:Jean-Benoît Bost (president of the jury)
José Ignacio Burgos Gil
Gerard Freixas i Montplet (adviser)
Colin Guillarmou (thesis referee)
Kai Köhler (thesis referee)
Xiaonan Ma
Frederic Naud
Richard Wentworth
2015-2016, Research master degree, Sorbonne Université (Paris, France).
2014-2015, Préparation au concours de l'agrégation externe de mathématiques, Professional master degree, ENS Lyon (Lyon, France). Ranked 30th.
The agrégation externe is a competitive exam which allows you to become a teacher in middle school, high school, preparatory classes, or even university in some cases (PRAG positions) in France. At the ENS Lyon, students were encouraged to take a year between the 1st and 2nd year of master to prepare for this exam. This preparation is a great opportunity to consolidate everything that has been learned up to that point in mathematics, and includes almost exclusively material of university level.2013-2014, 1st year of Master, ENS Lyon (Lyon, France).
2012-2013, 3rd year of Licence, ENS Lyon (Lyon, France).
2011-2012, Preparatory class MP*, Lycée du Parc, Lyon, France.
2010-2011, Preparatory class MP, Lycée du Parc, Lyon, France.
2009-2010, Preparatory class MPSI, Lycée Victor Hugo, Besançon, France.
2006-2009, Highschool, Lycée du Parc, Lyon, France.
The base template used for the pdf versions of the CV is available here.
Organization of seminars and other events
2021, Spring term, co-organization of the seminar "Geometry, Number Theory, and Representation Theory" at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), along with Manish Patnaik and Valentin Buciumas. Seminar page.
Teaching
2024-2025, 1st semester, Université Jean Monnet (Saint-Étienne), Mathematics (L1 BGC). In French. 1st year students.
Quelques éléments de rigueur.2024-2025, 1st semester, Université Jean Monnet (Saint-Étienne), Mathematics (L1 Info). In French. 1st year students.
2023-2024, 2nd semester, Université Grenoble Alpes, Differential calculus. In French. 3rd year students.
CC2 - Solutions.
Document sur les équations différentielles (Cauchy-Lipschitz, etc.)2023-2024, 2nd semester, Université Grenoble Alpes, Mat201: "Introduction to linear algebra". In French. 1st year students.
2023-2024, 2nd semester, Université Grenoble Alpes, Mat209: "Algebra and analysis". In French. 1st year students.
TD5 - Correction partielle.2023-2024, 1st semester, Université Grenoble Alpes, Mat304: "Matrix calculus and functions of multiple variables" . In French. 2nd year students.
Sheet 5 - Solutions (exercise 10.1 and 10.2)2023-2024, 1st semester, Université Grenoble Alpes, Mat103: "Fundamental mathematical tools for natural sciences". In French. 1st year students.
2023-2024, 1st semester, Université Grenoble Alpes, Mat102: "Mathematical tools for science and engineering". In French. 1st year students.
2023, Summer term, University of Alberta, Math 125: "Linear Algebra 1". In English.
2021, Spring term, University of Alberta, Math 125: "Linear Algebra 1". In English.
2019-2020, 2nd semester, Sorbonne Université, TA for LU2MA211: "Lebesgue integrals on R^n". 2nd year students. In French.
2019-2020, 1st semester, Sorbonne Université, TA for LU3MA270: "Algebra". 3rd year students. In French.
2019-2020, 1st semester, Sorbonne Université, TA for LU2MA220: "Arithmetics and algebra". 2nd year students. In French.
2018-2019, 1st semester, Sorbonne Université, TA for 3M270: "Algebra". 3rd year students. In French.
Course notes (written by Alberto Minguez).
Exercise sessions (only the solutions and the written tests were written by me):
Sheet 1 - Solutions
Sheet 2 - Solutions
Sheet 3 - Solutions
Sheet 4 - Solutions
Written Test 1 - Solutions
Written Test 2 - Solutions
In addition, there was a midterm and a final exam.2017-2018, 2nd semester, Sorbonne Université, TA for 3M270: "Algebra". 3rd year students. In French.
Additional document on short exact sequences (written by me).
Exercise sessions (only the solutions and the written tests were written by me):
Sheet 1 - Solutions
Sheet 2 - Solutions
Sheet 3 - Solutions
Sheet 4 - Solutions
Sheet 5 - Solutions
Sheet 6 - Solutions
Sheet 7 - Solutions
Sheet 8 - Solutions
Sheet 9 - Solutions
Sheet 10 - Solutions
Written test 1 - Solutions
Written test 2 - Solutions
In addition, there was a midterm and a final exam.2017-2018, 1st semester, Sorbonne Université, TA for 2M220: "Arithmetics and algebra". 2nd year students. In French.
Course notes (written by Alain Kraus).
Additional document on subfields of a finite field (written by me).
Exercise sessions (only the solutions and the homework assignment were written by me):
Sheet 1 - Solutions
Sheet 2 - Solutions
Sheet 3 - Solutions
Sheet 4 - Solutions
Sheet 5 - Solutions
Sheet 6 - Solutions
Sheet 7 - Solutions
Homework assignment - Solutions
In addition, there was a midterm and a final exam.2016-2017, 2nd semester, Sorbonne Université, TA for 2M256: "Vector analysis and multiple integrals". 2nd year students. In French.
Exercise sessions (only the solutions were written by me):
Sheet 1 - Solutions
Sheet 2 - Solutions
Sheet 3 - Solutions
Sheet 4 - Solutions2016-2017, 1st semester, Sorbonne Université, TA for 1M001: "Analysis and algebra for science". 1st year students. In French.
2013-2014, Lycée du Parc, Lyon, TA in preparatory classes MP*1 and MP*2.
Preparatory classes MPSI/MP/MP* in France constitute an alternative to the first two years of university to study mathematics and physics. They are typically extremely demanding, and students go through two oral exams every week in groups of two or three: one in mathematics, the other one alternatively in physics or in English (or whichever language the student primarily learns). These oral exams are given by a "sort of TA".
Research internships
2016, Sorbonne Université, Research internship for the 2nd year of Master.
Supervisor: Gerard Freixas i Montplet
Topic: Hilbert modular surfaces
Dissertation (French).2014, Université d'Orsay, Research internship for the 1st year of Master.
Supervisor: Daniel Perrin
Topic: Algebraic liaison of finite sets in the projective space, theorems of Davis-Geramita-Orecchia and Cayley-Bacharach, stratification of finite sets.
Dissertation (French).2013, Université Paris-Diderot, Research internship for the 3rd year of Licence.
Supervisor: Rached Mneimné
Topic: Affine geometry, conics, Clifford algebras.
Teaching platforms
(in French) Techphil, a teaching platform created by my father, Philippe, is a great interactive way for all to learn about electricity, cabling, electrical safety, and more!