  Lecture 1: Projective and K\"ahler Manifolds, the Enriques classification,
construction techniques. Lecture 2: Surfaces of general type and their
Canonical models. Deformation equivalence and singularities. Lecture 3:
Deformation and diffeomorphism, canonical symplectic structure for surfaces of
general type. Lecture 4: Irrational pencils, orbifold fundamental groups, and
surfaces isogenous to a product. Lecture 5: Lefschetz pencils, braid and
mapping class groups, and diffeomorphism of ABC-surfaces. Epilogue:
Deformation, diffeomorphism and symplectomorphism type of surfaces of general
type.
