Topics in Knot Theory

Invited papers.- Knot Projections and Knot Coverings.- Knots and Knot Spaces.- Knot Groups.- An Introduction to Species and the Rack Space.- Some Remarks on the Braid-Permutation Group.- to Topological Imitations of (3,1)-Dimensional Manifold Pairs.- A Wild Variation of Artin’s Braids.- Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds from Skein Theory and from Quantum Groups.- Classical Numerical Invariants in Knot Theory.- The Quest for a Knot with Trivial Jones Polynomial: Diagram Surgery and the Temperley-Lieb Algebra.- Twisted Topological Invariants Associated with Representations.- On the Alexander and Jones Polynomial.- Contributed papers.- Hyperbolic 3-dimensional Orbifolds.- Irregular Dihedral Branched Coverings of Knots.- 2-Dimensional Braids and Chart Descriptions.- On Links Embedded into Surfaces of Heegaard Splittings of S3.- A Search for Kernels of Burau Representations.- The Witten-Reshitikhin-Turaev Invariant for Three-Manifolds.