Syllabus

9/19
Complex tori

Homomorphisms of complex tori
9/21 Cohomology of complex tori

Review of complex geometry
9/26 The Hodge decomposition

Line bundles on complex tori
9/28 Chern classes of line bundles

The Appell-Humbert theorem
10/3 The dual complex torus

The Poincaree bundle
10/5 Theta functions

Cohomology of line bundles, Riemann-Roch
10/10 Abelian varieties, polarizations

The Riemann relations
10/12 The decomposition theorem

Gauss map
10/17 Projective embeddings

Kummer varieties
10/19 Morphisms to abelian varieties

Pontryagin product
10/24 Tangent cones to analytic spaces
10/26 Jacobians

Abel map
10/31 Varieties of special linear series
11/7
The geometric theory of Riemann's theta function
11/9
Torelli Theorem
11/14
Kempf's Theorem
11/16
Theory of Andreotti and Mayer
11/21
Criterion of Matsusaka-Ran
11/28
Trisecants to the Kummer variety
12/5
Results of Kollar and Ein-Lazarsfeld on the singular locus of a theta divisor
12/7
Intermediate Jacobians

Prym Varieties