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Daniel Litt
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Toronto
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Daniel Litt | The arithmetic of differential equations

📅 Oct 27, 2026 Harvard CMSA 56 MIN 2595 VIEWS 77 SEGMENTS · 3 SPEAKERS
Math Science Lectures in Honor of Raoul Bott 10/19/2026 Speaker: Daniel Litt, U Toronto Lecture 1: The arithmetic of differential equations Abstract: When does an algebraic differential equation have solutions which are themselves algebraic functions? This question goes back at least to Fuchs, in 1875. Its conjectural answer, due to Grothendieck and Katz in the linear case and Ekedahl-Shepherd-Barron-Taylor and Bost in general, situates it as one of number theory. I’ll explain these conjectures and some progress towards them, joint with Josh Lam, for isomonodromy differential equations. Th...
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Good afternoon. I'm Dan Freed, director of the Harvard CMSA. It's a pleasure to welcome you for the first, I think, of our special lectures this year. Um, actually it's not the first, but anyway, it's the first of two Bott lectures this week. There'll be this lecture and then another one at 4:00 on Wednesday. Um, there's also a reception following this one to which everyone's invited up on the fourth floor. So, this year we're very pleased to have Daniel Litt, who's from the University of Toronto, but more importantly was an undergraduate here and returns this semester as the Benedict H. Gross Distinguished Visitor. So, we're very happy to have Daniel around. And he will tell us today about the arithmetic of differential equations.

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  title        = {Daniel Litt | The arithmetic of differential equations},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, Harvard CMSA. CEOInterviews.AI},
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  month        = {oct},
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  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
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