Conference on Topological Methods
in Algebraic Topology SUNY
Binghamton, October 3-7,1973
The conference was supported by a grant from the National
Science Foundation. The principle speaker of the conference was
Professor E. E. Floyd, Robert C. Taylor Professor of Mathematics,
The University of Virginia. His series of ten lectures should
appear as a publication of the Conference Board of the Mathematical
Sciences (U.S.A.). The supplementary program was an extremely
important part of the conference and is represented by the manuscripts
herein. The State University of New York provided a grant from its
program "Conversations in the Disciplines" which partially supported
the supplementary program. We are indebted not only to the National
Science Foundation and the State University of New York but also to
all who participated in the conference and contributed so much to its
success .