Curriculum Vitae Geoffrey Compère

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1 Geoffrey Compère 1 Curriculum Vitae Geoffrey Compère I was born in Schaerbeek (Brussels, Belgium) on June 21, Professional address ULB - Campus Plaine - CP 231 Physique Théorique et Mathématique Accès 2 - Bâtiment NO - Niveau 6 - Local O Boulevard du Triomphe, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium Tel: , Fax: , gcompere@ulb.ac.be Current employment FNRS Research Associate (Tenured) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. Employment Record Jan 2013 Jan 2014, Post-doctorate Researcher at Harvard University, USA , Post-doctorate Researcher at the Institute of Theoretical Physics and KdV Institute for Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Netherlands , Post-doctorate Researcher at University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB/KITP), USA , B.A.E.F. (Belgian American Educational Foundation) David and Alice van Buuren Fellow and Post-doctorate Researcher at UCSB/KITP, USA , F.N.R.S. (Fonds National de Recherche Scientifique) Research Fellow, Belgium. Education Doctorate: Ph.D. in Sciences University: Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium Period: Obtained on June 14, 2007 Title of thesis: Symmetries and conservation laws in Lagrangian gauge theories with applications to the mechanics of black holes and to gravity in three dimensions Director: Glenn Barnich Jury: Marc Henneaux, Frank Ferrari, Dietmar Klemm and Philippe Spindel Master s: Civil Engineer in Applied Mathematics University: Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium Period: Obtained in June Mention: La Plus Grande Distinction Academic year Degree Mention Institution Ph.D. in Sciences N/A U.L.B. (Belgium) D.E.A en Sciences N/A U.L.B. (Belgium) rd Ingénieur Civil en Mathématiques Appliquées L.P.G.D. 1 U.C.L. (Belgium) nd year Ingénieur Civil en Mathématiques Appliquées L.P.G.D. U.C.L. (Belgium) st year Ingénieur Civil en Mathématiques Appliquées L.P.G.D. U.C.L. (Belgium) nd year Candidat Ingénieur Civil L.P.G.D. U.C.L. (Belgium) st year Candidat Ingénieur Civil G.D. 2 U.C.L. (Belgium) 1 La Plus Grande Distinction. First score (94/100) in the ranking of the 220 graduated Civil Engineers 2 Grande Distinction.

2 Geoffrey Compère 2 Invited Presentations I was invited to present 49 talks in institutions and international conferences both in Europe and in the US. - Generalized Virasoro symmetries near extremal black hole horizons (2015): Marcel Grossman meeting MG14, Rome (Italy) - Extremal near-horizon symmetries and phase space (2015): String Duality Seminar, Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, Harvard (USA) - Extension of Virasoro symmetries near extremal black hole horizons (2015): Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Harvard (USA) - Black holes of N = 8 supergravity (2015): Group Seminar, Max Planck Institute, Potsdam-Golm (Germany) - 3d gravity and dual (warped) CFTs (2014/2015): Indian Strings meeting, Puri (India) ; DAMTP Group seminar, Cambridge (UK) - Chiral Liouville gravity and AdS 3 (2014) University of Southampton (UK) Workshop on Holography, gauge theory and black holes ; University of Jussieu (France) Group seminar - Black holes of N = 8 supergravity (2014): Singapore (Singapore) International Workshop Exceptional symmetries and Emerging Spacetime ; Ascona (Switzerland) Conference Recent Developments in String Theory - All single-centered black holes of N = 8 supergravity (2013): Group Seminar, Princeton (USA) - Seed for general rotating black holes of N = 8 supergravity (2013): University of Michigan (USA) Black holes in string theory workshop - Chiral Liouville gravity and a new view on AdS 3 (2013/2014): University of Texas A& M (USA), Topics in Holography, Supersymmetry and Higher Derivatives ; Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium ; - Asymptotic Symmetry Groups: Series of 3 Lectures (2013): Gravity seminar, Harvard University (USA) - The Relativistic Fluid and the Translation Anomaly of vacuum Einstein gravity (2010/2012): KITP (USA) Black Holes and Information conference, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Holographic fluids Workshop ; Istanbul, Koc University (Turkey), Strings, branes and supergravity conference ; Zurich (Switzerland), Quantum Theory and Gravitation conference ; Utrecht (The Netherlands) and Groningen (The Netherlands) - Towards a Microscopic Description of Extremal Kerr (2010): Harvard (USA); Amsterdam (The Netherlands); ULB Brussels Joint KUL/VUB/ULB Seminar (Belgium); Edinburgh University (United Kingdom) ; Saclay CEA IPhT (France) - Universality of extremal black hole entropy (2010): Valdivia - Valdivia Summer Workshop (Chile); USC Los Angeles (USA) ; Texas A&M (USA) - AdS/CFT: From fundamentals to developments (2010): Leuven (Belgium) - The extremal black hole/conformal field theory correspondence (2009): McGill University (Canada), Holography and the universality of black holes workshop ; Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) (USA) ; Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics (USA), Shining Light on Black Holes ; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Germany); ENS Lyon (France); - Solitons in five-dimensional gravity (2009): UCSB/KITP (USA) - Asymptotic charges in three-dimensional gravity (2009): ESI workshop on three dimensional gravity, ESI Institute (Austria) - Setting the Boundary Free in AdS/CFT (2008/2009): Stanford, Institute for Theoretical Physics (USA); UCSB and KITP (USA) ; ULB (Belgium); Milano String theory group

3 Geoffrey Compère 3 ; LPTHE Jussieu, Paris (France) - Central charges in three dimensional spacetime (2007): UCSB/KITP (USA) ; Milano (Italy) Black hole thermodyamics (2006) Milano (Italy); ULB (Belgium) - Three dimensional Gödel spacetime and black holes (2006): UCL (Belgium), VUB /KUL /ULB (Belgium) Teaching : Lecturer Lie algebras, their representations and application to physics for Master students in Physics : Teaching Assistant Analytical Mechanics for students in second year Baccalaureate in Physics and Mathematics at ULB (with P. Gaspard as main lecturer) String Theory for students in Baccalaureate and Masters in Physics at UvA (with K. Skenderis as main lecturer) : Supply Lecturer General Relativity for students in Masters in Physics at UCSB (with G. Horowitz as main lecturer) Advanced classical Mechanics for students in Masters in Physics at UCSB (with D. Marolf as main lecturer) : Teaching assistant General Relativity for 3rd year students in Physics, 4th year students in Mathematics (with M. Henneaux and F. Ferrari as main lecturer) Group and representation theory for 3rd year students in Physics (with M. Henneaux as main lecturer) : Monitoring student Discrete Mathematics (graph theory and combinatorics) for second year Civil Engineering Classical Mechanics for second year Civil Engineering Continuum mechanics and fluid mechanics for third year Civil Engineering Supervising experience Ph.D. students: Roberto Oliveri (as only supervisor) Victor Lekeu (as cosupervisor with Marc Henneaux) Master s students: Noé Vandevoorde (ULB) Guillaume Valette (ULB)

4 Geoffrey Compère Jérémy El-Aïssaoui (ULB) Tresa Solans (UvA) Baccalaureate students: Stéphanie Federici, Dualités en gravitation (ULB) Nicolas Delporte, Supraconductivité (ULB) Jeffrey Wouda in BAC3, Holographic superconductors (UvA) Roel Siffels and Jeffrey Wouda in BAC2, Superconductivity (UvA) Co-organiser of conferences and summer schools - Holography for black holes and cosmology (ULB), 9-13 May 2016 (announced) - Holography for black holes and cosmology (ULB), April th Pacific Coast Gravity meeting (Santa Barbara USA), March Third Modave Summer School in Mathematical Physics, Modave (Belgium), Second Modave Summer School in Mathematical Physics, Modave (Belgium), 2006 Invited presentations to international conferences, workshops and schools 2015 Marcel Grossman meeting MG14, Rome (Italy) 2014 STAG Research Center, University of Southampton (UK) Workshop on holography, gauge theory and black holes ; Ascona conference center Congressi Stefano Franscini (Switzerland) Recent Developments in String Theory conference ; Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) Exceptional symmetries and Emerging Spacetime workshop ; Blue Lily Hotel, Puri (India) Indian Strings meeting University of Michigan (USA) Black holes in string theory workshop ; University of Texas A&M (USA), Topics in Holography, Supersymmetry and Higher Derivatives ; 2012 Santa Barbara (USA) KITP Conference Black Holes and Information ; Bilbao (Spain), Iberian Strings 2012 ; Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Holographic fluids ; 2011 Istanbul (Turkey), Strings, branes and supergravity conference ; Zurich (Switzerland), Quantum Theory and Gravitation conference 2010 Valdivia (Chile), Valdivia summer workshop ; 2009 Montreal (Canada): Holography and the universality of black holes workshop ; Ann Arbor (USA): Shining light on black holes workshop ; Vienna (Austria): ESI Workshop on three-dimensional gravity 2006 Modave (Belgium): Second Modave Summer School in Mathematical Physics Awards, Grants and Distinctions - ERC Starting Grant granted in 2013 ( 1,000,000/5 years)

5 Geoffrey Compère 5 - NSF Grant Award (for 1-year post-doctoral position in Harvard), Dutch NWO Vidi grant awarded ( 800,000/5 years) but declined because this grant was incompatible with my tenured researcher position in Belgium, B.A.E.F. (Belgian American Educational Foundation) David and Alice van Buuren Fellow to spend one year of research at UCSB/KITP (USA), (USD$ 30,000) - F.N.R.S. Research Fellow (Belgium) and to complete my Ph.D. thesis - Congratulations of the Jury for being first in the ranking of 220 engineers graduated in 2003 at U.C.L with grade 94/100 (La Plus Grande Distinction). - Recipient of a grant from the Supercomputer Institute of Minneapolis (USA) (USD$ 2,000) and a grant from the CESAME Center (UCL - Belgium) ( 2000) to spend four months of research during my Master s in 2002 in Minneapolis (USA). - Third prize in the Belgian Olympiads of Mathematics in 1995 Short term invited visits Saclay, Paris (France), 3 days, June 2015 Harvard (US), 4 weeks, April 2015 Detroit (US), 1 week, October 2013 Ann Harbor (US), 1 week, April 2013 Santa Barbara (US), 4 weeks, May 2012 Cambridge (UK), 4 weeks, March 2012 Bilbao (Spain), 1 week, January 2012 Istanbul (Turkey), 1 week, Aug 2011 Harvard (USA), 1 week, Nov 2010 Saclay IPhT (France), 1 week, Nov 2010 Edinburgh University (United Kingdom), 1 week, Oct 2010 Brussels (Belgium), 1 week, Oct 2010 Harvard (USA), 1 week, Aug 2010 College Station (USA), 1 week, April 2010 College Station (USA), 1 week, March 2010 McGill University (Canada), 1 week, Nov 2009 USC (USA), 3 days, Oct 2009 Ann Harbor (USA), 1 week, Sept 2009

6 Geoffrey Compère 6 Stanford (USA), 1 week, May 2008 Perimeter Institute (Canada), 1 week, Nov 2007 Other relevant experience Secretary of the Jury of Masters in physics ( and ) Referee for Phys. Rev. Lett, Physical Review D., Classical and Quantum Gravity, Phys. Lett. B., J. High Energy Physics (JHEP), Gen. Rel. and Grav and Entropy. Familiar with C, C++, Java, Fortran, Matlab, Maple and Mathematica. Language skills Native French, Fluent English, Advanced Dutch, Basic Spanish. List of Publications I have published 38 papers in international journals and I wrote two proceedings for international schools and conferences which in total collect 1491 citations (h-index 23, 37 citations on average/paper). All my publications can be found on Inspire at except for one publication during my Engineering Master s. I published in Phys. Rev. Lett., J. Math. Phys, JHEP, Class. Quant. Grav, Prog. Theor. Phys. and Phys. Rev. D. All my publications are listed here below. The total number of citations is indicated in underlined parentheses at the end of the reference. [1] G. Compère, K. Hajian, A. Seraj, M. Sheikh-Jabbari, JHEP to be published (2015), arxiv: [hep-th] (2) [2] G. Compère, K. Hajian, A. Seraj, M. Sheikh-Jabbari, Phys. Lett. B749 (2015) , arxiv: [hep-th] (3) [3] G. Compère, L. Donnay, P-H Lambert, W. Schulgin, JHEP 1503 (2015) 158, arxiv: [hep-th] (5) [4] G. Compère, M. Guica, M. Rodriguez, JHEP 1412 (2014) 012, arxiv: [hepth] (12) [5] D. Chow, G. Compère, Phys. Rev. D90 (2014) 2, , arxiv: [hep-th] (10) [6] D. Chow, G. Compère, Phys. Rev. D89 (2014) 6, , arxiv: [hep-th] (22) [7] D. Chow, G. Compère, Class. Quant. Grav. 31 (2014) , arxiv: [hep-th] (25) [8] G. Compère, J. Jottar, W. Song, JHEP 1311 (2013) 054, arxiv: [hep-th] (22) [9] G. Compère, W. Song, JHEP 1309 (2013) 144, arxiv: [hep-th] (23)

7 Geoffrey Compère 7 [10] G. Compère, W. Song, A. Strominger, JHEP 1305 (2013) 152, arxiv: [hep-th] (19) [11] G. Compère, W. Song, A. Strominger, JHEP 1305 (2013) 154, arxiv: [hep-th] (11) [12] G. Compère, Living Rev.Rel. 15 (2012) 11, arxiv: [hep-th] (68) [13] G. Compère, P. McFadden, K. Skenderis, M. Taylor, JHEP 1203 (2012) 076, arxiv: [hep-th] (33) [14] G. Compère, F. Dehouck, Jun 2011, Class.Quant.Grav. 28 (2011) , arxiv: [hep-th] (7) [15] G. Compère, F. Dehouck, A. Virmani, Class.Quant.Grav. 28 (2011) , arxiv: [gr-qc] (7) [16] G. Compère, P. McFadden, K. Skenderis, M. Taylor, JHEP 1107, 050 (2011), arxiv: [hep-th] (67) [17] G. Compère, W. Song, A. Virmani, JHEP 1110 (2011) 087, arxiv: [hep-th] (28) [18] G. Compère, S. de Buyl, S. Stotyn and A. Virmani, JHEP 1011, 133 (2010), arxiv: [hep-th] (24) [19] G. Compère, S. de Buyl and S. Detournay, JHEP 1010 (2010) 042, arxiv: (11) [20] D. Anninos, G. Compère, S. de Buyl, S. Detournay and M. Guica, JHEP 1011, 119 (2010), arxiv: (29) [21] G. Compère, K. Copsey, S. de Buyl, R. Mann, JHEP 0912:047 (2009), arxiv: (13) [22] G. Compère, S. de Buyl, S. Detournay, K. Yoshida, JHEP 0910:032 (2009) arxiv: ) [23] G. Compère, S. Detournay, JHEP 0908:092, (2009), arxiv: (59) [24] T. Azeyanagi, G. Compère, N. Ogawa, Y. Tachikawa, S. Terashima, PTP Vol. 122, No. 2 (2009) arxiv: (66) [25] G. Compère, S. de Buyl, E. Jamsin, A. Virmani, Class.Quant.Grav. 26:125016, (2009), arxiv: (34) [26] G. Compère, K. Murata, T. Nishioka, JHEP 0905:077 (2009), arxiv: (81) [27] A. Amsel and G. Compère, Phys. Rev. D 79, (2009) arxiv: (10) [28] G. Compère, S. Detournay and M. Romo, Phys.Rev.D78:104030, (2008), arxiv: (28) [29] G. Compère and S. Detournay, Class.Quant.Grav. 26:012001, (2009), Erratum-ibid.26:139801, 2009, arxiv: (83)

8 Geoffrey Compère 8 [30] G. Compère, D. Marolf, Class.Quant.Grav. 25:195014, (2008), arxiv: (93) [31] G. Barnich, G. Compère, J. Math. Phys. 49, (2008), arxiv: (118) [32] G. Compère, Phys. Rev. D75:124020, (2007), hep-th/ (14) [33] G. Compère, S. Detournay, JHEP 0703:098, (2007), hep-th/ (43) [34] G. Barnich, G. Compère, Class.Quant.Grav. 24:F15, (2007), Erratum-ibid. 24:3139, (2007), gr-qc/ (84) [35] M. Banados, G. Barnich, G. Compère, A. Gomberoff, Phys. Rev. D73 (2006), hep-th/ (45) [36] G. Barnich, G. Compère, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, (2005) , hep-th/ (39) [37] G. Barnich, G. Compère, Phys. Rev. D71, (2004) , eprint gr-qc/ (28) [38] A. Yeckel, G. Compère, A. Pandy, J.J. Derby, J. of Crystal Growth, 263 (2003) Published School and Conference proceedings 1. G. Compère, Introduction to the mechanics of black holes, Proceedings of the Second Modave Summer School (2006), Ed. International Solvay Institutes, Bruxelles, ac.be /sciences/ptm/pmif/rencontres/modaveii/theoryofblackholes.pdf (5) 2. N. Bouatta, G. Compère, A. Sagnotti, An Introduction to Free Higher-Spin Fields, Proceedings of the First Solvay Workshop on Higher-Spin Theories, Vol 1 (2004), International Solvay Institutes, Bruxelles, hep-th/ (140) Published algorithmic package The package SurfaceCharges that I developed using asymptotic methods in gravity and gauge theories is published on my homepage It is written in Mathematica (compatible with v8.0) and is documented with a user manual. It is the first package which allows to compute surface charges in gravitation coupled to matter fields.