Selected topics from Riemannian geometry in the large: triangle and volume comparison theorems, Milnor's results on growth of the fundamental group, Gromov-Hausdorff convergence, Cheeger's diffeomorphism finiteness theorem, the Besson-Courtois-Gallot barycenter method and the proofs of the minimal entropy theorem and the Mostow rigidity theorem for rank one locally symmetric spaces.
