Abstract
This survey retraces the author’s talk at the Workshop Birational geometry of surfaces, Rome, January 11–15, 2016. We consider various birational invariants extending the notion of gonality to projective varieties of arbitrary dimension, and measuring the failure of a given projective variety to satisfy certain rationality properties, such as being uniruled, rationally connected, unirational, stably rational or rational. Then we review a series of results describing these invariants for various classes of projective surfaces.
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