Organizers:

Nathan Green (Louisiana Tech University in Ruston)
Pavel Guerzhoy (University of Hawai'i, Manōa)
Masanobu Kaneko (Kyushu University, Fukuoka)
Federico Pellarin (Sapienza, Rome)

Meeting in the Middle: Conference on characteristic 0 and characteristic p multiple zeta values (and other topics)

in Manoa, Hawaii, March 16-20, 2026

This conference is planned to be a “building bridges”-type conference. It will bring together researchers from two separate, but related areas of mathematics: Multiple zeta values (MZV) over function fields (characteristic p) and MZV over the real numbers (characteristic 0).

List of speakers

Annika Burmester

Bielefeld University

Henrik Bachmann

Nagoya University

Francis Brown

University of Oxford

Chieh-Yu Chang

National Tsing Hua University

William Craig

U.S. Naval Academy

Hidekazu Furusho

University of Nagoya

Ryotaro Harada

Tohoku University

Minoru Hirose

Kagoshima University

Daichi Matsuzuki

National Tsing Hua University

Yoshinori Mishiba

Tohoku University

Yasuo Ohno

Tohoku University

Ken Ono

University of Virginia

Nobuo Sato

National Taiwan University

Shin-ichiro Seki

Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology

Dinesh Thakur

University of Rochester

Koji Tasaka

Kindai University

Conference Funding

We are grateful to the following organizations for providing funding/sponsorship for the conference.

Schedule will be posted once available

The structure of the schedule is this (it will be soon updated)

Accommodations

The organizers have reserved a limited number of rooms at the East-West Center, Lincoln Hall.

Details on these rooms and their costs can be found at the website: https://www.eastwestcenter.org/campus/housing/visitor-housing
Participants wanting to take advantage of these accommodations should indicate it on their registration form.
Participants should plan to pay for the room at the time of check in. If they are being supported by conference funds, they should save the receipt to submit for reimbursement.
Link to register for your room: https://eastwestcenter.na2.adobesign.com/public/esignWidget?wid=CBFCIBAA3AAABLblqZhABwEK9OGimojVWYHvjscmwIFifUiXOqzaNR4qGtOcV3bgEpP2hiODpaQkv-4S7b80*

Note: Form must be completed by Oct. 31 to guarantee reservation.

Fill in the "affiliation" field with "multiple zeta values conference". If you don’t enter this affiliation information, the hotel might not be able to accommodate your room requests! In all cases, you will need to use a credit card to guarantee the reservation without charge. The payment is collected at check-in.

Getting to UH Manoa

The University of Hawaii at Manoa is located in lush Manoa valley, on the island of Oahu, approximately 8 miles from Honolulu International Airport, 4 miles from downtown Honolulu.

Taxis, Uber and other rideshare services are plentiful at the airport. Public bus transportation is available in the city of Honolulu (see https://www.thebus.org/).