Configuration Spaces

Chapter 1 On the structure of spaces of commuting elements in compact Lie groups

Chapter 2 On the fundamental group of the complement of two real tangent conics and an arbitrary number of real tangent lines

Chapter 3 Intersection cohomology of a rank one local system on the complement of a hyperplane-like divisor

Chapter 4 A survey of some recent results concerning polyhedral products

Chapter 5 Characters of fundamental groups of curve complements and orbifold pencils

Chapter 6 Analytic continuation of a parametric polytope and wall-crossing

Chapter 7 Embeddings of braid groups into mapping class groups and their homology

Chapter 8 The cohomology of the braid group B 3 and of SL 2 (ℤ) with coefficients in a geometric representation

Chapter 9 Pure braid groups are not residually free

Chapter 10 Hodge-Deligne equivariant polynomials and monodromy of hyperplane arrangements

Chapter 11 The contravariant form on singular vectors of a projective arrangement

Chapter 12 Fox-Neuwirth cell structures and the cohomology of symmetric groups

Chapter 13 Basic questions on Artin-Tits groups

Chapter 14 Rational cohomology of the real Coxeter toric variety of type A

Chapter 15 Arrangements stable under the Coxeter groups

Chapter 16 Quantum and homological representations of braid groups

Chapter 17 Cohomology of the complement to an elliptic arrangement

Chapter 18 Residual nilpotence for generalizations of pure braid groups

Chapter 19 Some topological problems on the configuration spaces of Artin and Coxeter groups

Chapter 20 Chromatic quasisymmetric functions and Hessenberg varieties

Chapter 21 Geometric and homological finiteness in free abelian covers

Chapter 22 Minimal stratifications for line arrangements and positive homogeneous presentations for fundamental groups