Complex Analysis and Surface Theory I

Academic year 2026/2027
Lecturer Andrea Malchiodi

Examination procedure

Written and oral exams

Examination procedure notes

Written and oral exams, exercises during class

Prerequisites

Prerequisites al consist mainly of the material covered in first-year courses. It is possible that some results proved in second-year courses may be used

Syllabus

- Numeri complessi - Funzioni olomorfe e loro proprieta' principali - Superfici di Riemann, e tempo permettendo elementi di teoria di Teichmuller - Forme differenziali - Geometria delle superfici nello spazio Euclideo - Coordinate isoterme - Rappresentazione di Weierstrass - Teoremi di Bernstein e Hopf per superfici minime e a curvatura media costante

Bibliographical references

Useful references will be classic books on Complex Analysis, such as those by Ahlfors and Gamelin, and some on minimal surfaces, such as those by Osserman and Fomenko-Tuzhilin. For surface geometry, classic texts include Do Carmo's and some of Spivak's volumes.