A classical result in SCV is the fact that a nonconstant holomorphic map sending a piece of the unit sphere in $\mathbb C^N$ into itself is necessarily locally biholomorphic (and, in fact, extends as an automorphism of the unit ball). Generalizations and variations of this result for mappings between real hypersurfaces have been obtained by a number of mathematicians over the last 30 years. In this talk, we shall discuss some recent joint work with L. Rothschild along these lines for mappings between CR manifolds of higher codimension.
A Calabi-Yau orbifold is locally modeled on C^n/G where G is afinite subgroup of SL(n, C). One way to handle this type of
orbifolds is to resolve them using a crepant resolution of singularities.We use analytical techniques to understand the topology of the crepant resolution in terms of the finite group G. This gives ageneralization of the geometrical McKay Correspondence.