Moment-angle manifolds and complexes. Lecture notes KAIST'2010

These are notes of the lectures given during the Toric Topology Workshop at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in February 2010. We describe several approaches to moment-angle manifolds and complexes, including the intersections of quadrics, complements of subspace arrangements and level sets of moment maps. We overview the known results on the topology of moment-angle complexes, including the description of their cohomology rings, as well as the homotopy and diffeomorphism types in some particular cases. We also discuss complex-analytic structures on moment-angle manifolds and methods for calculating invariants of these structures.