Knots, braids, and mapping class groups--papers dedicated to Joan S. Birman : proceedings of a conference on low dimensional topology in honor of Joan S. Birman's 70th birthday, March 14-15, 1998, Columbia University, New York, New York : AMSIP volume 24 - Providence, RI : American Mathematical Society, c2001. - 1 online resource (xxii, 176 p. : ill.) - AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, v. 24 2472-5153 .

Upper bounds for the writhing of knots and the helicity of vector fields ; The automorphism group of a free group is not subgroup separable ; Configuration spaces and braid groups on graphs in robotics ; Alternate discreteness tests ; Intersection-number operators for curves on discs and Chebyshev polynomials ; Implicit function theorem over free groups and genus problem ; On the

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