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Title: The Grothendieck-Katz conjecture for certain locally symmetric varieties
Speaker: Professor Mark Kisin
Speaker Info: Chicago
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We show how results from Margulis rigidity can be combined with results of Katz and Andre to prove the Grothendieck-Katz conjecture for a large class of locally symmetric varieties including the moduli space of polarized abelian varieties. This is joint work with B. Farb.