Symplectic 4-Manifolds and Algebraic Surfaces: Lectures Given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School Held in Cetraro, Italy, September 2-10, 2003 (Paperback, 2008)

Lefschetz Pencils, Branched Covers and Symplectic Invariants.- Differentiable and Deformation Type of Algebraic Surfaces, Real and Symplectic Structures.- Smoothings of Singularities and Deformation Types of Surfaces.- Lectures on Four-Dimensional Dehn Twists.- Lectures on Pseudo-Holomorphic Curves and the Symplectic Isotopy Problem.