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Title:
First Steps in Global Lie Theory: wild Riemann surfaces, their character varieties and topological symplectic structures Part II

Speaker:
Philip Boalch

Abstract:
Stokes data, properly understood (e.g. as wild monodromy representations), are nonabelian analogues of periods, generalising the better known monodromy representations of the topological fundamental group into nonabelian Lie groups. This has many applications due to the prevalence of irregular connections on curves in geometry and physics. I'll review some aspects of this theory I have found amusing, as well as some work extending many familiar construction to the wild world:

Link:
http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/video.php?id=6003

Workshop:
Simons- Program: The Stokes Phenomenon and its applications in Mathematics and Physics