Hi! I am a PhD student at KU Leuven under supervision of Johannes Nicaise and Wim Veys. My research interests include non-Archimedean analytic geometry, birational geometry, singularity theory, zeta functions (Igusa, motivic, topological, birational...), mirror symmetry...
Email: tom(dot)biesbrouck(at)kuleuven(dot)be
T. Biesbrouck: An algebraic characterisation of non-Archimedean Stein spaces, arXiv:2512.01871 (2025)
T. Biesbrouck, N. Budur, J. Nicaise, W. Veys: Birational Zeta Functions, arXiv:2509.03352 (2025)
Giving short talk at 2026 Higher Dimensional Algebraic Geometry, Taipei, 13-17 April 2026
Giving seminar at Belgian-Dutch Junior Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Antwerp, 8 May
Attending Sixth International Workshop on Zeta Functions in Algebra and Geometry, Galway, 8-12 June 2026
Attending Singular, tropical and non-Archimedean interactions, Lille, 15-19 June 2026
Séminaire de géométrie algébrique de Jussieu, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche, 12 March 2026
Seminar Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry, KU Leuven, 25 February 2026
Birational Geometry Seminar 2025, UCLA (online), 12 December 2025
Belgian-Dutch Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Leuven, 17 October 2025
Workshop on non-Archimedean geometry, Lille, 6-10 October 2025
APP-GVL, Leuven, 22 September 2025
Non-Archimedean Geometry and Applications, Oberwolfach, 22-27 June 2025
Belgian-Dutch Junior Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Leuven, 13 June 2025
Combinatorial Synergies in Geometry and Number Theory, Rio de Janeiro (IMPA), 24-28 March 2025
Non-Archimedean Geometry, Birational Geometry and Resolution of Singularities, Caen, 10-14 March 2025
Logarithmic and Non-Archimedean Methods in Singularity Theory, Luminy (CIRM), 27-31 January 2025
Winter School on Non-Archimedean Geometry, Birational Geometry and Mirror Symmetry, Lancaster, 16-20 December 2024
Non-Archimedean, Tropical and Arakelov Geometry, Regensburg, 22-26 July 2024
Spring School on Non-Archimedean Geometry, Birational Geometry and Resolution of Singularities, Heidelberg, 4-8 March 2024
APP-GVL, Leuven, 5 February 2024
Belgian-Dutch Junior Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Utrecht, 10 November 2023
Belgian-Dutch Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Leiden, 27 October 2023
APP-GVL, Gent, 9 October 2023
I have been a teaching assistant for the following courses at KU Leuven:
Algebra II (introduction to Galois theory, Sylow theorems and (re)presentations of groups for third year students in mathematics), Spring 2025, 2026
Algebra I (abstract algebra course for second year students in mathematics), Fall 2024, 2025
Algebraïsche structuren (introductory algebra course for first year students in mathematics), Spring 2024
Lineaire algebra (introduction to linear algebra for first year students in mathematics, physics and computer science), Fall 2023
Wiskundige methoden voor biomedische wetenschappen (basic course in mathematics for students in biomedical sciences), Fall 2023