Complex, contact and symmetric manifolds. In honor of L. Vanhecke. Selected lectures from the international conference ``Curvature in Geometry'' held in Lecce, Italy, June 11--14, 2003. (Q1768509)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Blair, David E.}, Curvature of contact metric manifolds, 1-13 [Zbl 1075.53037] \textit{Boeckx, Eric}, A case for curvature: the unit tangent bundle, 15-26 [Zbl 1079.53051] \textit{Borisenko, A. A.}, Convex hypersurfaces in Hadamard manifolds, 27-39 [Zbl 1079.53052] \textit{Calvaruso, G.}, Contact metric geometry of the unit tangent sphere bundle, 41-57 [Zbl 1079.53045] \textit{Cortés, Vicente; Schäfer, Lars}, Topological-antitopological fusion equations, pluriharmonic maps and special Kähler manifolds, 59-74 [Zbl 1077.53060] \textit{de Bartolomeis, Paolo}, \(\mathbb Z_2\) and \(\mathbb Z\)-deformation theory for holomorphic and symplectic manifolds, 75-103 [Zbl 1076.32004] \textit{Djorić, Mirjana}, Commutative condition on the second fundamental form of CR-submanifolds of maximal CR-dimension of a Kähler manifold, 105-120 [Zbl 1086.32029] \textit{Fernández, Marisa; Muñoz, Vicente}, The geography of non-formal manifolds, 121-129 [Zbl 1078.57026] \textit{Díaz-Ramos, J. C.; García-Río, E.; Hervella, L.}, Total scalar curvatures of geodesic spheres and of boundaries of geodesic disks, 131-143 [Zbl 1077.53032] \textit{Dunn, Corey; Gilkey, Peter B.}, Curvature homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian manifolds which are not locally homogeneous, 145-152 [Zbl 1079.53101] \textit{Fujiki, A.; Pontecorvo, M.}, On Hermitian geometry of complex surfaces, 153-163 [Zbl 1085.53065] \textit{Gil-Medrano, Olga}, Unit vector fields that are critical points of the volume and of the energy: characterization and examples, 165-186 [Zbl 1075.53055] \textit{Kowalski, Oldřich; Vlášek, Zdeněk}, On 3D-Riemannian manifolds with prescribed Ricci eigenvalues, 187-208 [Zbl 1079.53056] \textit{Naveira, A. M.}, Two problems in real and complex integral geometry, 209-220 [Zbl 1153.53333] \textit{Oguro, Takashi; Sekigawa, Kouei}, Notes on the Goldberg conjecture in dimension four, 221-233 [Zbl 1077.53061] \textit{Terng, Chuu-Lian; Wang, Erxiao}, Curved flats, exterior differential systems, and conservation laws, 235-254 [Zbl 1077.53042] \textit{Tsukada, Kazumi}, Symmetric submanifolds of Riemannian symmetric spaces and symmetric R-spaces, 255-263 [Zbl 1077.53048] \textit{Wolf, Joseph A.}, Complex forms of quaternionic symmetric spaces, 265-277 [Zbl 1079.53067]