Math 581CA/582CA
Harmonic Measure

Don Marshall

Autumn 2004/Winter 2005, Monday/Wednesday/Friday 10:30

This course will be based on the book Harmonic Measure (see http://www.math.washington.edu/~marshall/harmmeas.pdf for the table of contents). The first quarter will cover standard background material that every student of function theory should know (Chapters I-IV, Appendices A, D, F) which includes potential theory in the plane, extremal length, conjugate functions, Hardy spaces, and Hausdorff measure. The second quarter will cover more recent results such as Bloch functions and the relation between harmonic and Hausdorff measures, the integrability of conformal maps, angular derivatives and boundary conformality, Jones square sum characterization of subsets of rectifiable curves, and other topics as time allows.

Prerequisites: This course will be accessible to students who have completed 524/525/526 and 534/535/536.