MAT 639 - Spring 2026 - Harmonic Measure in the Plane

Class videos.

  • Mon Jan 26 Class canceled, university closed because of snow.
  • Lecture 01: Wed Jan 28   ( Play ) Introduction to course: Random walks, Brownian motion, harmonic measure, Riemann mapping theorem, true trees. Due to technical problems and a fire alarm class lasted only 50 minutes, so I will finish the introduction in next class.
  • Lecture 02: Mon Feb 2   ( Play ) Chapter 1, Section 1: harmonic measure on half-plane and disk
  • Lecture 03: Wed Feb 4   ( Play ) Chapter 1, Section 2: Fatou's theorem on non-tangential limits.
  • Mon Feb 9 Class canceled.
  • Lecture 04: Wed Feb 11   ( Play ) Chapter 1, Sections 3 and 4: Caratheodory's theorem and Koebe's 1/4 therorem.
  • Lecture 05: Mon Feb 16   ( Play ) Chapter I, Sections 4 and 5: hyperbolic metric and the Hayman-Wu theorem.
  • Lecture 06: Wed Feb 18   ( Play ) Chapter II, Sections 1 and 2: Schwarz alternating method, Green's function.
  • Lecture 07: Mon Feb 23   ( Play ) University was closed today for a snowstorm, but I recorded a lecture on Chapter II, Sections 3 and 4 to be viewed later by the students. This material is only summarized quickly with no proofs and is not needed for most of what follows in the course.
  • Lecture 08: Wed Feb 25   ( Play ) Chapter III, Section 1: Capacity and Greens function
  • Lecture 09: Mon Mar 2   ( Play ) Chapter III, Sections 3 and 4: Energy intergral and equilibrium distribution
  • Lecture 10: Mon Mar 9   ( Play ) Chapter III, Sections 5, 6, 7: Wiener's solution of Dirichlet problem, regular points, Wiener's series.
  • Lecture 11: Wed Mar 11   ( Play ) Chapter III, Sections 8 and 9: Polar sets, sets of harmonic measure zero, and estimates for harmonic measure.
  • Mon Feb 16 and Wed March 18 No class, Spring Break.
  • Lecture 12: Mon March 22   ( Play ) Chapter IV, Sections 1-3 and Chapter V, Section 1: I was away this day, so lecture was pre-recorded.
  • Lecture 13: Wed March 25   ( Play ) Chapter IV, Sections 5 and 6 and Chapter V, Section 1 Extremal distance, harmonic measure estimates, and Denjoy conjecture. I was away this day, so lecture was pre-recorded.
  • Lecture 14: Mon March 30   ( Play ) Chapter V, Section 3: Reduced extremal distance.
  • Lecture 15: Wed April 1   ( Play ) Appendex A (Hardy spaces) and Chapter VI, Section 1 (the F. and M. Riesz Theorem).
  • Lecture 16: Mon April 6   ( Play ) Chapter VI, Sections 2 and 3: Privalov's and Plessner's theorems and accessible points (pre-recorded lecture).
  • Lecture 17: Wed April 8   ( Play ) Chapter VI, Section 4: McMillian's cone point theorem (pre-recorded lecture).
  • Lecture 18: Mon April 13   ( Play ) Chapter VI, Section 5: Makarov's upper bound.
  • Lecture 19: Wed April 15   ( Play ) Chapter VI, Section 6: Pommerenke's extension: harmonic measure lives on sigma-finite length.
  • Lecture 20: Mon April 20   ( Play ) Chapter VII, Sections 1 and 2: Bloch functions and conformal maps.
  • Lecture 21: Wed April 22   ( Play ) Chapter VII, Section 3: Quasicircles.
  • Lecture 22: Mon April 27   ( Play ) Chapter VIII, Section 1: Law of the Iterated Logarithm for Bloch functions.
  • Lecture 23: Wed April 29   ( Play ) Chapter VII, Section 2: harmonic measure and Hausdorff dimension
  • Lecture 24: Mon May 4   ( Play ) Complete Section VIII.2, proof of McMillan's twist point theorem
  • Lecture 25: Wed May 6   ( Play ) Last Class. DLA (Diffusion Limited Aggregation).