Dr Nicholas Buchdahl

Reader in Pure Mathematics

Office: 659 | Telephone: +61 8 8313 4165

Academic duties

Responsibility
Director of the Centre for Quantification and Management of Risk

Teaching duties

Title	Level	Semester
Complex Analysis III	3	1
Differential Geometry	4	1

Honours supervision

Thesis title	Student	Graduation
Planetary motion: a historical perspective	Howie Chu	2011
Constructing constant scalar curvature metrics on surfaces	Kyle Talbot	2011
The Uniformisation Theorem	Patrick Korbel	2009
On compact, simply connected, smooth four-manifolds with definite intersection form	Edward Ross	2009
The classification of surfaces	Mark Bott	2008

Master of Philosophy supervision

Thesis title	Student	Graduation
Quantitative analysis of surface shape	Jack Massey
Topics in complex geometric analysis	Michael Albanese

Doctor of Philosophy supervision

Thesis title	Student	Graduation
Acyclic embeddings of open Riemann surfaces into elliptic manifolds	Tyson Ritter	2011
Regularized equivariant Euler classes and gamma functions	Rongmin Lu	2008
Invariant bilinear differential pairings on parabolic geometrics	Jens Kroeske	2008
Spaces of holomorphic maps in Oka theory	Alexander Hanysz
Mathematics education in Australia	Patrick Korbel
Transcendental methods in complex geometry	Damien Warman

Research interests

Research interest	Group
Complex analysis	Geometry
Complex analytic and algebraic geometry	Geometry
Differential geometry	Geometry
Gauge theory	Geometry
Mathematical physics	Geometry
Complex analysis	Mathematical Physics
Complex analytic and algebraic geometry	Mathematical Physics
Differential geometry	Mathematical Physics
Gauge theory	Mathematical Physics
Mathematical physics	Mathematical Physics

Research seminars

Title	Series
Classification and compact complex manifolds I	Differential Geometry Seminar
Classification and compact complex manifolds II	Differential Geometry Seminar
Moduli spaces of stable holomorphic vector bundles	Differential Geometry Seminar
Moduli spaces of stable holomorphic vector bundles II	Differential Geometry Seminar
Moduli spaces of stable holomorphic vector bundles III	Differential Geometry Seminar
K3 surfaces: a crash course	Differential Geometry Seminar

Research grants

Grant title	Funding Agency
Classification and Invariants in Complex Differential Geometry	ARC