Holomorphic Curves and Global Questions in Contact Geometry

An Introduction to Contact Geometry.- Basic Results.- Surfaces in Three Dimensional Contact Manifolds.- Finite Energy Planes and Periodic Orbits.- Properties of Pseudoholomorphic Curves.- Intersection Theory for Pseudoholomorphic Disks.- Local Existence and Global Uniqueness Results.- Bubbling-off in Families of Pseudoholomorphic Disks.- Disk Filling Methods and Applications.