After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand scientific papers containing concepts such as "Kähler manifold" (relevant in supersymmetric field theories) or "Calabi-Yau manifold" (the main geometric ingredient of string compactifications) and to perform simple computations in that area.
P. Candelas, "Lectures on Complex Manifolds", Proceedings Trieste 1987
Griffiths/Harris, "Principles of algebraic geometry"
D. Joyce, "Compact manifolds with special holonomy"