The aim of this course is to give an introduction to the geometry of algebraic surfaces. The following topics will be discussed: the minimal model program for surfaces, singularities, classification of minimal models, automorphisms. Students are supposed to be familiar with basic algebraic geometry.

Financial support. The course is supported by the Simons Foundation and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (the grant to the Steklov International Mathematical Center, Agreement no. 075-15-2019-1614).

Lecturers
Prokhorov Yuri Gennadievich
Shramov Constantin Aleksandrovich

Organizations
Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Steklov International Mathematical Center