Isomonodromy and non-abelian cohomology
Speaker:
Daniel Litt, University of Toronto
Date and Time:
Monday, March 3, 2025 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 309, Stewart Library
Abstract:
I'll give an introduction to the notion of isomonodromy in algebraic geometry, and explain how it plays the role of a "non-abelian" analogue of a Picard-Fuchs equation. I'll discuss some topological and arithmetic applications of these ideas, and a number of open questions around how to understand analogies between the cohomology of algebraic varieties and the moduli of local systems on algebraic varieties.