Geometry and topology : proceedings of the Special year held at the University of Maryland, College Park 1983-1984 / J. Alexander and J. Harer

Contents: Amir Assadi, Lower Postnikov terms of generalized CW complexes and semisimple actions (pp. 1–23); Joan S. Birman and Bronislaw Wajnryb, 3-fold branched coverings and the mapping class group of a surface (pp. 24–46); J. C. Cantrell, Locally flat embeddings of three-dimensional manifolds in four-dimensional manifolds (pp. 47–49); Jeff Cheeger and James Simons, Differential characters and geometric invariants (pp. 50–80); James Eells, Minimal branched immersions into three-manifolds (pp. 81–94); William M. Goldman, Representations of fundamental groups of surfaces (pp. 95–117); Alfred Gray, Comparison theorems for volumes in surfaces (pp. 118–124); Karsten Grove, The isometry-invariant geodesics problem: closed and open (pp. 125–140); Morris W. Hirsch, Attractors for discrete-time monotone dynamical systems in strongly ordered spaces (pp. 141–153); Cynthia Hog, Martin Lustig and Wolfgang Metzler, Presentation classes, 3-manifolds and free products (pp. 154–167); Yoshinobu Kamishima, Proper actions on homogeneous spaces (pp. 168–179); Ravi Kulkarni, Kyung Bai Lee and Frank Raymond, Deformation spaces for Seifert manifolds (pp. 180–216); Charles Livingston and Paul Melvin, Abelian invariants of satellite knots (pp. 217–227); John W. Morgan and Peter B. Shalen, An introduction to compactifying spaces of hyperbolic structures by actions on trees (pp. 228–240); Walter D. Neumann and Don Zagier, A note on an invariant of Fintushel and Stern (pp. 241–244); Frank Quinn, Handlebodies and 2-complexes (pp. 245–259); Jerrold Siegel, Extrema associated with homotopy classes of maps (pp. 260–267); C. T. C. Wall, Geometries and geometric structures in real dimension 4 and complex dimension 2 (pp. 268–292).