Title: Linear differential equations with finite monodromy Speaker: Hossein Movasati (IMPA) Date: 10:30 29/05/2020 Abstract: In this talk I will introduce few linear differential equations with finite monodromy. This includes Picard-Fuchs equations of a family of degree $4$ and $6$ curves and a family of K3 surfaces. A cheap method to verify this conjecturally is to compute $p$-curvature and observe that it is zero for all except a finite number of bad primes. The inverse of this statement is known as Katz-Grothendieck conjecture. I will also compute the bad primes of these differential equations.