Professor Finnur Larusson

Associate Professor in Pure Mathematics

Office: 649 | Telephone: +61 8 8313 3528 | Personal homepage

Academic duties

Responsibility
Convenor of Undergraduate Seminars
Member of the Library Committee

Honours supervision

Thesis title	Student	Graduation
Belyi's theorem		2011
The Oka Principle for Riemann Surfaces	Michael Albanese	2010
Complex tori	Michael Foster	2008
The presheaf category of Dessins d'Enfants	Patrick Coleman	2008
Wavelets	Fergus Mills	2006
Shabat polynomials	Edward Watts	2006

Master of Philosophy supervision

Thesis title	Student	Graduation
Oka theory of Riemann surfaces

Doctor of Philosophy supervision

Thesis title	Student	Graduation
Acyclic embeddings of open Riemann surfaces into elliptic manifolds	Tyson Ritter	2011
Spaces of holomorphic maps in Oka theory	Alexander Hanysz
Transcendental methods in complex geometry	Damien Warman

Research interests

Research interest	Group
Complex analysis	Geometry
Complex analytic and algebraic geometry	Geometry
Applied homotopy theory	Geometry

Research seminars

Title	Series
Four classes of complex manifolds	Differential Geometry Seminar
The limits of proof	Undergraduate Seminar
Infinite numbers: what are they and what are they good for?	Undergraduate Seminar
Deformations of Oka manifolds	Differential Geometry Seminar
Oka theory of blow-ups	Differential Geometry Seminar
Plurisubharmonic subextensions as envelopes of disc functionals	Differential Geometry Seminar
Holomorphic flexibility properties of compact complex surfaces	Differential Geometry Seminar
An Oka principle for equivariant isomorphisms	Differential Geometry Seminar
Oka properties of groups of holomorphic and algebraic automorphisms of complex affine space	Differential Geometry Seminar
The limits of proof	Undergraduate Seminar
Gromov's method of convex integration and applications to minimal surfaces	Differential Geometry Seminar
The parametric h-principle for minimal surfaces in R^n and null curves in C^n	Differential Geometry Seminar
An equivariant parametric Oka principle for bundles of homogeneous spaces	Differential Geometry Seminar
Chaos in higher-dimensional complex dynamics	Differential Geometry Seminar