Summary
This award is to support participants at the 2026 Gainesville International Number Theory Conference, which will take place March 18-22, 2026 at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Research in number theory has a long and illustrious history going back to the ancient Greeks. Recent research in number theory has made significant advances that has led to important applications to other areas such as physics, computing, and data security. Two very recent sensational developments have been on the distribution of multiplicative functions in short intervals, and on the Kummer-Patterson Conjectur