Heegaard Floer Homologies and Rational Cuspidal Curves. Lecture notes.

Baranowski, Adam; Borodzik, Maciej; Serrano de Rodrigo, Juan

Winter Braids VI (Lille, 2016), Winter Braids Lecture Notes (2016), Exposé no. 1, 39 p.

This is an expanded version of the lecture course the second author gave at Winterbraids VI in Lille in February 2016.

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