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I will discuss some classical examples of simply connected, compact, orientable, smooth 4-manifolds, and a classical construction of a particular class of 4-manifolds in terms of integral Dehn surgery on links in the 3-sphere. I will define the terms in this abstract, and introduce the intersection form for 4-manifolds and associated classical invariants. This talk should be accessible to any student with some background in algebraic and differential topology.