Mathematics Professor Solomon Friedberg is one of a team of investigators that have been awarded a 1.5 million dollar, three-year, NSF grant. The grant will fund research on combinatorial representation theory, multiple Dirichlet series, and moments of L-functions. Besides Boston College, institutions taking part in the project are Brown University, Columbia University, CUNY, MIT, the University of Minnesota, and Stanford University. Researchers from these institutions will collaborate in an effort to resolve long-standing questions in analytic number theory and to develop new connections between number theory and geometry. Friedberg and his colleagues will also organize workshops and conferences in the area and disseminate their findings. Friedberg stated, "In the past 3 years, I and my collaborators have found a remarkable new connection between certain constructions in number theory and the geometry of root systems, the objects that were much in the news recently thanks to the research announced at MIT. We're very excited to have the opportunity to study and develop these connections and to see if we can use them to resolve some long-standing problems in number theory." Friedberg's research on this topic is also being supported by the National Security Agency.
