Chris Wendl is Professor of Differential Geometry and Global Analysis at Humboldt University of Berlin. He is the author of Holomorphic Curves in Low Dimensions: From Symplectic Ruled Surfaces to Planar Contact Manifolds (2018), and a recent recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant.
'... a well-written introduction to the subject that is appropriate for advanced graduate students with a background in algebraic topology and some differential geometry.' Chris Seaton, Mathematical Association of America Reviews 'This is a comprehensive and outstanding research book on the Verlinde formula, conformal blocks, generalized theta functions and related topics.' Zhenbo Qin, MathSciNet