{"id":9336,"date":"2022-07-21T18:32:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T22:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/?page_id=9336"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:37:39","slug":"number-theory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/research\/number-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Number Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The Department of Mathematics and Statistics has a vibrant group <\/span><span>working in number theory and arithmetic geometry, with interests <\/span><span>spanning various aspects of the Langlands program, Iwasawa theory, and <\/span><span>Diophantine geometry. The group organizes the <a href=\"https:\/\/math.bu.edu\/research\/algebra\/seminar.html\">Number Theory Seminar<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faculty:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/math.bu.edu\/people\/jbala\/\">Jennifer Balakrishnan<\/a>: <span>p-adic heights, p-adic integration, rational <\/span><span>points on curves, and computation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/profile\/alexander-bertoloni-meli\/\">Alexander Bertoloni Meli<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/profile\/juanita-duque-rosero\/\">Juanita Duque-Rosero:<\/a> rational points on curves, triangular modular curves, and computational arithmetic geometry<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/profile\/li-mei-lim\/\">Li-Mei Lim<\/a>: <span>automorphic forms, multiple Dirichlet series, L-functions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/math.bu.edu\/people\/rpollack\/\">Robert Pollack<\/a>:\u00a0<span>modular forms, Iwasawa theory, p-adic variation, and computational aspects<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/math.bu.edu\/people\/rohrlich\/\">David Rohrlich<\/a>: <span>root numbers, self-dual motives, Artin <\/span><span>representations, and arithmetic statistics<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/profile\/padmavathi-srinivasan\/\"><span>Padmavathi Srinivasan<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/math.bu.edu\/people\/ghs\/\">Glenn Stevens<\/a>:\u00a0<span>p-adic variation of automorphic cohomology, Iwasawa Theory, and p-adic aspects of Hilbert\u2019s twelfth problem<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/math.bu.edu\/people\/jsweinst\">Jared Weinstein<\/a>: <span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"><span>arithmetic geometry, automorphic forms, representation theory<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Visiting Researchers:<\/strong><span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/profile\/jerson-caro\/\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/profile\/marius-leonhardt\/\">Marius Leonhardt<\/a>: <span>number theory and arithmetic geometry<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PhD Students:<\/strong><span data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style=\"font-size:16px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'docs-Calibri';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/profile\/ashutosh-roy-choudhury\/\">Ashutosh Choudhury<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/profile\/diana-maria-harambas\/\">Diana-Maria Harambas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/math.bu.edu\/people\/bakeberg\/\"><span>Jacksyn Bakeberg<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/profile\/kate-finnerty\/\"><span data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style=\"font-size:16px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'docs-Calibri';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;\">Kate Finnerty<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/profile\/liqiang-huang\/\">Liqiang Huang<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/simjhsim.com\/\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/profile\/matthew-broe\/\">Matt Broe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/profile\/zheng-yang\/\">Zheng Yang<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/profile\/zecheng-yi\/\">Zecheng Yi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/profile\/xinyu-zhou\/\">Xinyu Zhou<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Mathematics and Statistics has a vibrant group working in number theory and arithmetic geometry, with interests spanning various aspects of the Langlands program, Iwasawa theory, and Diophantine geometry. The group organizes the Number Theory Seminar. Faculty: Jennifer Balakrishnan: p-adic heights, p-adic integration, rational points on curves, and computation Alexander Bertoloni Meli Juanita [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12962,"featured_media":0,"parent":8384,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9336"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11975,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9336\/revisions\/11975"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}