Lecture Series on “ Negatively curved Kahler manifolds” (4 Lectures)

Speaker: Dr. Martin Deraux, Institut Fourier, Grenoble

Time and place: LH 2, IISc Math Dept

• Wednesdays (31st Oct and 7th Nov) 11-12.30 PM
• Thursdays (1st Nov and 8th Nov) 3-4.30 PM

Abstract:

1. Basics of Kahler geometry, uniformization.
2. Intro to complex hyperbolic geometry, review about symmetric spaces, constructions of discrete groups and lattices, Calabi conjecture and Yau uniformization.
3. Overview of Deligne-Mostow theory.
4. Branched covering constructions and non-locally symmetric examples.