Foreword.- 1: Perspectives on moduli spaces.- The GIT Approach to constructing moduli spaces.- Moduli and periods.- The KSBA approach to moduli spaces.- Bibliography.- 2: Compact moduli of surfaces and vector bundles.- Moduli spaces of surfaces of general type.- Wahl singularities.- Examples of degenerations of Wahl type.- Exceptional vector bundles associated to Wahl degenerations.- Examples.- Bibliography.- 3: Notes on the moduli space of stable quotients.- Morphism spaces and Quot schemes over a fixed curve.- Stable quotients.- Stable quotient invariants.- Wall-crossing and other geometries.- Bibliography.
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