5 Questions with Faculty: Mathematics Professor Cristian Lenart

$Cristian Lenart specializes in combinatorics -- an older field of mathematics that was originally associated with puzzles and games before taking on a new role in recent years. (Photo by Patrick Dodson)$

Professor of Mathematics Cristian Lenart is an expert in the field of algebraic combinatorics. His goal, in a manner of speaking, is to build more accessible models for complex objects.

Lenart was recently awarded $200,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue his work in combinatorial representation theory and combinatorial algebraic geometry.