Steven Charlton

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I am mainly working with Danylo Radchenko, Daniil Rudenko and Herbert Gangl on questions around multiple polylogarithms in weight 5 and 6. I am also discussing with various other colleagues including Mike Hoffman, Adam Keilthy and Nobuo Sato on questions around the structure of multiple zeta values and related objects. My interests also touch on \(q\)-MZV's, \(q\)-series and modular forms.

A lot of my work has a computer-experimental basis; I use various computer algebra systems like gp/pari, SageMath, Mathematica or Maple, to investigate interesting algebraic structures, and to find patterns in the results.

You can view my cv (updated February 2026).

Previously I was:

A postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn.
A teaching postdoc, and then DFG Eigene Stelle grant holder, at Universität Hamburg, in the research group of Prof. Dr. Ulf Kühn,
A guest at the Isaac Newton Institute (Cambridge, UK) during the \(K\)-theory, algebraic cycles and motivic homotopy theory programme,
A postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn,
A guest at the Multiple Zeta Value Research Center (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan),
A Teach@Tübingen fellow, at Universität Tübingen, in the group of Prof. Dr. Anton Deitmar.

Contact

As well as my Uni Cologne e-mail address, my MPIM e-mail address should remain for the foreseeable future:

steven.charlton(at)uni-koeln(dot)de
charlton(at)mpim-bonn(dot)mpg(dot)de