Hyperelliptic continued fractions and generalized jacobians: Minicourse given by Umberto Zannier

These are notes from the minicourse given by Umberto Zannier (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa). The notes were worked out by Laura Capuano, Peter Jossen,1 Christina Karolus, and Francesco Veneziano. Most of the material of these lectures, except for the numerical examples which were added by us, is already available in [45], The authors wish to thank Umberto Zannier for the lively discussions in Alpbach, and Olaf Merkert for providing computations of the examples 3.17, 3.28, 3.29, 3.33, and 3.25