Abstract:
This talk is dedicated to the isomonodromic deformation equations on the Riemann sphere with
the punctures of an arbitrary Poincaré rank (regular and irregular isomonodromic problems).
Such deformations are closely related to the Painlevé equations and Garnier systems, as well
as to the moduli space of flat connections over the Riemann sphere with boundaries. In this talk,
using the confluence procedure I will show what Poisson and symplectic structure arise when
we transfer to the irregular case. Moreover, I am going to discuss how the connection depends
on irregular deformation parameters and their meaning from the representation theory point of
view. I am also going to discuss the quantization of obtained isomonodromic systems and
relation to the quasi-classical solutions of the KZ equations written in the terms of the classical
isomonodromic tau function.