| Preface | |
| Contents of Lectures at Knots 96 | |
| Other Talks | |
| On spatial graphs isotopic to planar embeddings | p. 1 |
| The Conway polynomial of an algebraically split link | p. 23 |
| Young diagrams, the Homfly skein of the annulus and unitary invariants | p. 31 |
| Some new results in the theory of braids and generalised braids | p. 47 |
| The arithmeticity of certain torus bundle cone 3-manifolds and hyperbolic surface bundle 3-manifolds; and an enhanced arithmeticity test | p. 73 |
| Equivariant concordance of knots in S[superscript 3] | p. 81 |
| Note on spatial graphs with good drawings | p. 91 |
| Real representation spaces of 2-bridge knot groups and isometries of the hyperbolic plane | p. 99 |
| Two-bridge knots with generalized unknotting number one | p. 109 |
| Delta-unknotting operation and adaptability of certain graphs | p. 115 |
| Planar surfaces in a handlebody and a theorem of Gordon-Reid | p. 123 |
| Statistics of knots and some relations with random walks on hyperbolic plane | p. 147 |
| The fundamental polygons of twist knots and the (-2, 3, 7) pretzel knot | p. 159 |
| On the Tutte polynomial | p. 173 |
| Delta unknotting operation and vertex homotopy of graphs in R[superscript 3] | p. 185 |
| Floer homology for orbifolds and gauge theory knot invariants | p. 201 |
| Knots and electricity | p. 213 |
| Uniqueness of essential free tangle decompositions of knots and links | p. 231 |
| Polynomial invariants of Legendrian links and their fronts | p. 239 |
| Combinatorial analog of the Melvin-Morton conjecture | p. 257 |
| A strand passage metric for topoisomerase action | p. 267 |
| Algebraic topology based on knots: an introduction | p. 279 |
| Quantum SU(3) invariants derived from the linear skein theory | p. 299 |
| Invariant trace fields and commensurability of hyperbolic 3-manifolds | p. 309 |
| Every 2-link with two components is link-homotopic to the trivial 2-link | p. 319 |
| Alexander invariant and twisting operation | p. 327 |
| Turaev-Viro modules of satellite knots | p. 337 |
| On the invariants of lens knots | p. 365 |
| The crossing number of alternating link diagrams on a surface | p. 377 |
| Minimal genus Seifert surfaces for alternating links | p. 383 |
| Seifert complex for links and 2-variable Alexander matrices | p. 395 |
| Kauffman polynomials as Vassiliev link invariants | p. 411 |
| Shortest vertical geodesics of manifolds obtained by hyperbolic Dehn surgery on the Whitehead link | p. 433 |
| Energy of knots in a 3-manifold; the spherical and the hyperbolic cases | p. 449 |
| A condition for a 3-manifold to be a knot exterior | p. 465 |
| Computer programs for knot tabulation | p. 479 |
| Homeomorphisms of a 3-dimensional handlebody standardly embedded in S[superscript 3] | p. 493 |
| Framed link diagrams of open 3-manifolds | p. 515 |
| Open 3-manifolds with infinitely many knot-surgery descriptions | p. 539 |
| Some Seifert 3-manifolds which decompose S[superscript 4] as a twisted double | p. 545 |
| On simply knotted tori in S[superscript 4] II | p. 551 |
| Hyperbolic three-manifolds and the four-color theorem | p. 569 |
| Representation of mapping class groups via the universal perturbative invariant | p. 573 |
| List of Participants | p. 588 |
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