Course No. 951.
None is required but the following treat aspects of the subject matter well.
The Wednesday talks will aim at showing that the Deligne Mumford moduli space is a projective variety and will include an elementary proof of this in genus zero due to Dietmar Salamon. I will also present Hummel's proof of Gromov compactness for stable curves. This proof uses elementary hyperbolic geometry. The first part of the lecture series will cover enough elementary Riemann surface theory and hyperbolic geometry to understand these proofs. Here are some notes.