AMSIMSSIAM Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences on Artin's Braid Group ... held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, California on July 1326, 1986, with support from the National Science FoundationT.p. verso.

Includes bibliographies.

A construction of integrable differential system associated with braid groups ; Mapping class groups of surfaces ; Automorphic sets and braids and singularities ; The operator algebras of the twodimensional Ising model ; Artin's braid groups, classical homotopy theory, and sundry other curiosities ; Classification of solvorbifolds in dimension three. I ; Pure braid groups and products of free groups ; Polynomial covering maps ; Arithmetic analogues of braid groups and Galois representations ; Application of braids to fixed points of surface maps ; Statistical mechanics and the Jones polynomial ; Hurwitz action and finite quotients of braid groups ; Heights of simple loops and pseudoAnosov homeomorphisms ; Linear representations of braid groups and classical YangBaxter equations ; A survey of Hecke algebras and the Artin braid groups ; On divisibility properties of braids associated with algebraic curves ; The panorama of polynomials for knots, links and skeins ; The structure of deleted symmetric products ; Braid group technique in complex geometry. I. Line arrangements in bf C\rm P^2 ; Problems ; Polynomials from braids ; The Jones polynomial of satellite links around mutants ; On the deformation of certain type of algebraic varieties ; Braids and discriminants ; _k moves on links ; Mutually braided open books and new invariants of fibered links ; Generalized braid groups and selfenergy Feynman integrals ; Markov classes in certain finite symplectic representations of braid groups ; The braid index of an algebraic link ; Markov algebras K Aomoto ; Joan S Birman ; E Brieskorn ; Alan L Carey and David E Evans ; F R Cohen ; William D Dunbar ; Michael Falk and Richard Randell ; Vagn Lundsgaard Hansen ; Yasutaka Ihara ; Bo Ju Jiang ; Louis H Kauffman ; Paul Kluitmann ; Tsuyoshi Kobayashi ; Toshitake Kohno ; G I Lehrer ; A Libgober ; W B R Lickorish ; R James Milgram and Peter Loffler ; B Moishezon and M Teicher ; H R Morton ; H R Morton ; H R Morton and P Traczyk ; Mutsuo Oka ; Peter Orlik and Louis Solomon ; Jozef H Przytycki ; Lee Rudolph ; Mario Salvetti ; Bronislaw Wajnryb ; R F Williams ; David N Yetter