| SPECIAL LECTURE | |
| Topic: | Rigid Differential Equations |
| Speaker: | Dmitry Arinkin |
| Affiliation: | University of North Carolina |
| Date: | Wednesday, November 14 |
| Time/Room: | 3:00pm - 4:00pm/S-101 |
We study systems of linear ordinary differential equations dy/dz=A(z)y, where A is a matrix-valued rational function of z. By definition, such equation is rigid if it is uniquely determined by the type of its singularities.
Our goal is to provide a classification of rigid equations. If all singularities of A are regular, this was done by N.Katz; we extend his results to arbitrary A.