TOPOLOGY SEMINAR WISCONSIN, 1965 - VOL. 60

During the summer of 1965, an informal seminar in geometric topology was held at the University of Wisconsin under the direction of Professor Bing. Twenty-five of these lectures are included in this study, among them Professor Bings lecture describing the recent attacks of Haken and Poincaré on the Poincaré conjectures, and sketching a proof of Hakens main result.