Survey articles

• [1] An introduction to the Seiberg-Witten equations on symplectic four-manifolds (with C. H. Taubes),
  Symplectic geometry and topology (Park City, UT, 1997), 103-142, AMS, 1999. pdf (may differ slightly from published version)
  This expository article is based on Taubes's lectures at Park City, Utah in July 1997. Lecture 1: Background from differential geometry. Lecture 2: Spin and the Seiberg-Witten equations. Lecture 3: The Seiberg-Witten invariants. Lecture 4: The symplectic case, part I. Lecture 5: The symplectic case, part II.

• [2] The isoperimetric problem on surfaces (with H. Howards and F. Morgan),
  American Mathematical Monthly 106 (1999), 430-439. (Available online from jstor.)
  This article is an elementary survey of isoperimetric theorems on various surfaces, with a few new proofs.

• [3] Taubes's proof of the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three,
  Bulletin of the AMS 47 (2010), 73-125. pdf

• [4] Recent progress on symplectic embedding problems in four dimensions,
  PNAS 108 (2011), 8093-8099, nearly final version at arXiv:1101.1069

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