Publisher's Synopsis
This book consists of five expository papers on moduli spaces and locally symmetric spaces based on lecture notes given by the authors at two instructional workshops held at the Morningside Center of Mathematics, Beijing, in February 2017 and March 2019. They give accessible and systematic introductions to moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces, algebraic curves, moduli spaces of vector bundles on Riemann surfaces, moduli spaces of singularities, and compactification of a natural class of locally symmetric spaces. They should serve as good instructions to some important aspects of these important spaces.
