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

Tokyo University of Science

Minoru Hirose

Kagoshima University

Daichi Matsuzuki

National Tsing Hua University/Texas A&M University (from March 2026)

Yoshinori Mishiba

Tohoku University

Yasuo Ohno

Tohoku University

Ken Ono

Axiom Math and the University of Virginia

Nobuo Sato

National Taiwan University

Shin-ichiro Seki

Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology

Koji Tasaka

Kindai University

Dinesh Thakur

University of Rochester

Conference Funding

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

Useful information

The venue is the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, in Honolulu, on the island of O'ahu. The meeting will take place in Bilger Hall 335. The approximative emplacement is here. Bilger Hall is a building on the campus. It houses the Department of Chemistry and some related laboratories and classrooms. It is located along Maile Way, roughly in the central-east part of the Mānoa campus.

The preliminary schedule, as well as some useful information, titles and abstracts of the talks can be found here. A simplified schedule can be found here.

For the coffee breaks we will use a room in a courtyard adjacent to the building.

For lunch, one possibility is Manoa Marketplace, which is about one mile away.

A Social dinner is planned on March 19, 2026, from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM. Venue: Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, 2454 S. Beretania St., 5th Floor, Honolulu, Hawaii 96826. Location.

There is a non-negligible chance that part of the week of the conference will be rainy. For this reason, participants are advised not to underestimate the option of bringing an umbrella and/or a raincoat!

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.

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/).