Proceedings of the special session on low dimensional topology, 87th annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society, held in San Francisco, California, January 711, 1981Verso t.p.

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Knotted periodic orbits in dynamical system. II. Knot holders for fibered knots ; Doubly prime knots ; On J. H. C. Whitehead's aspherical question. II ; Geometric cohomology theory ; Seifert fibered anifolds and nonorientable anifolds ; A conservative Dehn's lemma ; The Murasugi sum is a natural geometric operation ; Manifolds and their special spines ; Realizing units as Whitehead torsions in low dimension ; A survey of the Torelli group ; Combinatorics and knot theory ; Dehn twists and handlebodies of genus two ; Localization of link modules ; Alexander modules of plane algebraic curves ; Fivedimensional knot theory ; Covering linkage invariants and Fox's problem 3 ; Numerical invariants of links in anifolds ; Polyhedra representation of link complements ; A fibered knot in a homology phere whose group is nonclassical ; Automorphisms of the free group of rank two without finite orbits Joan S Birman and R F Williams ; Steven A Bleiler ; Joe Brandenburg Micheal Dyer and Ralph Strebel ; Roger Fenn and Denis Sjerve ; Ronald Fintushel and Ronald J Stern ; Michael H Freedman ; David Gabai ; David Gillman and Dale Rolfsen ; Sushil Jajodia and Bruce Magurn ; Dennis Johnson ; Louis H Kauffman ; R Kramer ; J P Levine ; A Libgober ; S J Lomonaco Jr ; Toru Maeda and Kunio Murasugi ; Richard Mandelbaum and Boris Moishezon ; William W Menasco ; John G Ratcliffe ; Martin Scharlemann and Craig Squier