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This is an expanded version of my plenary lecture at the 8th European Congress of Mathematics in Portorov{z} on 23 June 2021. The main part of the paper is a survey of recent applications of complex-analytic techniques to the theory of conformal minimal surfaces in Euclidean spaces. New results concern approximation, interpolation, and general position properties of minimal surfaces, existence of minimal surfaces with a given Gauss map, and the Calabi-Yau problem for minimal surfaces. To be accessible to a wide audience, the article includes a self-contained elementary introduction to the theory of minimal surfaces in Euclidean spaces.
We obtain a sharp estimate on the norm of the differential of a harmonic map from the unit disc $mathbb D$ in $mathbb C$ into the unit ball $mathbb B^n$ in $mathbb R^n$, $nge 2$, at any point where the map is conformal. In dimension $n=2$, this gener
We prove that a minimal disc in a CAT(0) space is a local embedding away from a finite set of branch points. On the way we establish several basic properties of minimal surfaces: monotonicity of area densities, density bounds, limit theorems and the
In this article, we interpolate a given real analytic spacelike curve $a$ in Lorentz-Minkowski space $mathbb{L}^3$ to another real analytic spacelike curve $c$, which is close enough to $a$ in a certain sense, by a maximal surface using inverse funct
We consider immersions of a Riemann surface into a manifold with $G_2$-holonomy and give criteria for them to be conformal and harmonic, in terms of an associated Gauss map.