This volume contains the Proceedings of the Conference on
Topology held at the Mathematisches Institut der Universitat
Gottingen from the 9th through the 15th of November 1984.
This conference marked the opening of the new SONDERFORSCHUNGS-
BEREICH 170: Geometrie und Analysis at the Mathematics Insti-
tue, and this volume of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics is
the first in the new subseries devoted to conferences and
research conducted in Gottingen.