Multiple zeta values and modular forms - Steven Charlton

Multiple zeta values (MZV's) are a prominent but mysterious class of real numbers, generalising the values of the Riemann zeta function to several arguments. They appear surprisingly often in many branches of mathematics and in high energy physics. I will give a brief introduction and overview of MZV's, and then explain some work by Gangl, Kaneko and Zagier which connected modular forms with double zeta value identities.