Seminar

In this talk, we explore Zagier's famous formula for multiple zeta values involving 2's and 3's.
 Zagier's formula is a remarkable example of both strength and the limits of the motivic formalism used by Brown in proving Hoffman's conjecture where the motivic argument does not give us a precise value for the special multiple zeta values $\zeta(2, 2, \ldots, 2, 3, 2, 2,\ldots, 2)$ as rational linear combinations of products $\zeta(m)\pi^{2n}$ with $m$ odd. 
 

In this talk, the second of three, we introduce two fascinating objects in mathematics: the Riemann zeta and multiple zeta functions. We explore basic properties of these objects such as: their special values, analytic continuation and interesting connections to mathematical physics. 

Abstract: In this talk, the first of three, we introduce two fascinating objects in mathematics: the Riemann zeta and multiple zeta functions. We explore basic properties of these objects such as: their special values, analytic continuation and interesting connections to mathematical physics. 

We will present an example of an Hereditarily irreducible map, from a continuum onto a superdendrite, that is not continuumwise injective.