Bart Michels

Belgian mathematician working in analytic number theory, automorphic forms and representation theory. Since October 2022 a postdoctoral researcher at Universitaet Bonn in the group of Valentin Blomer; he defended his PhD in July 2022 at Universite Sorbonne Paris Nord (Paris 13) under Farrell Brumley. As a school student he represented Belgium at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2013, earning an honourable mention with 11 points.

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• Started as a postdoc at Universitaet Bonn in October 2022 in Valentin Blomer's group, moving from Paris to Bonn.Oct 2022
• Defended his PhD in July 2022 at Universite Sorbonne Paris Nord (Paris 13) under Farrell Brumley; the thesis concerns maximal growth of automorphic periods and oscillatory integrals.Jul 2022
• Defended his PhD in July 2022 at Universite Sorbonne Paris Nord (Paris 13) under Farrell Brumley; the thesis 'The maximal growth of automorphic periods and oscillatory integrals for maximal flat submanifolds' is the capstone of a Paris-based graduate career that also produced a 2018 master's thesis on Eisenstein series and a 2016 undergraduate thesis on the prime number theorem remainder.Jul 2022
• His three theses trace a deliberate progression from elementary number theory (2016, prime number theorem remainder, in Dutch) to spectral theory of automorphic forms (2018) to maximal flat submanifolds and toric periods (2022), a widening frontier rather than a narrow specialization, consistent with his three stated interests.2022
• Peer-reviewed paper 'Extreme values of geodesic periods on arithmetic hyperbolic surfaces' appeared in the Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu (2020), while two 2022 works (geometry of maximal flat submanifolds; maximal growth of toric periods) remained preprints at that time.2020
• Represented Belgium at IMO 2013 and earned an Honourable Mention with 11 points (rank 306), an early signal of the research trajectory that led to a mathematics PhD.Jul 2013
• Represented Belgium at IMO 2013, earning an Honourable Mention with 11 points (rank 306), which set him on the path to a mathematics PhD roughly a decade later.Jul 2013
• Active on Mathematics Stack Exchange and MathOverflow (user id 43288 and 50929 respectively), signalling sustained involvement in the broader online mathematics community alongside research; he cross-links his Stack Exchange profile from his own homepage.2024