ManifoldsTopology of cell complexes and manifolds, orbifoldsclassification of manifolds (e.g. smoothing, polyhedrasurgery), cell complexeslow dimensional topology (e.g. knot theory, foliationsinvariants of 4-manifolds), embedding theory, combinatorial and PL topology, geometric structuresgroup theory, infinite dimensional topology (e.g. Hilbert cube manifolds, theory of retracts).