This volume arose from a special session on Low Dimensional Topology organized and conducted by Dr. Lomonaco at the American Mathematical Society meeting held in San Francisco, California, January 7-11, 1981.

Table of Contents

• J. S. Birman and R. F. Williams -- Knotted periodic orbits in dynamical systems II: Knot holders for fibered knots
• S. A. Bleiler -- Doubly prime knots
• J. Brandenburg, M. Dyer, and R. Strebel -- On J.~H.~C.~Whitehead's aspherical question II
• R. Fenn and D. Sjerve -- Geometric cohomology theory
• R. Fintushel and R. J. Stern -- Seifert fibered 3-manifolds and nonorientable 4-manifolds
• M. H. Freedman -- A conservative Dehn's lemma
• D. Gabai -- The Murasugi sum is a natural geometric operation
• D. Gillman and D. Rolfsen -- Manifolds and their special spines
• S. Jajodia and B. Magurn -- Realizing units as Whitehead torsions in low dimensions
• D. Johnson -- A survey of the Torelli group
• L. H. Kauffman -- Combinatorics and knot theory
• R. Kramer -- Dehn twists and handlebodies of genus two
• J. P. Levine -- Localization of link modules
• A. Libgober -- Alexander modules of plane algebraic curves
• S. J. Lomonaco, Jr. -- Five dimensional knot theory
• T. Maeda and K. Murasugi -- Covering linkage invariants and Fox's problem 13
• R. Mandelbaum and B. Moishezon -- Numeric invariants in 3-manifolds
• W. W. Menasco -- Polyhedra representation of link complements
• J. J. Ratcliffe -- A fibered knot in a homology 3-sphere whose group is nonclassical
• M. Scharlemann and C. Squier -- Automorphisms of the free group of rank two without finite orbits