Complex Analysis and Surface Theory II

Academic year 2025/2026
Lecturer Gian Maria Dall'Ara, Andrea Malchiodi

Examination procedure

<p>written and oral exam. some exercise sessions</p>

Prerequisites

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

Syllabus

Dirichlet problem 


Classification of complex tori 


Liouville's theorem for conformal maps


Hopf's theorem for surfaces with constant mean curvature 

Bibliographical references

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