Singularity theory and its applications. Proceedings of a symposium held at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, June 1--4, 1999 (Q2703539)

The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEContents: Pierre Milman, Introduction to resolution of singularities (1-25); Shuzo Izumi, Orders of functions at singularities (Japanese) (26-34); Go-o Ishikawa, Several questions on singularities: Theories and applications (35-48); Guangfeng Jiang and Mutsuo Oka, Toric modifications of line singularities on surfaces (49-62); Makoto Namba, Visual Zariski-van Kampen theorem (63-86); Mutsuo Oka, Moduli of sextics and its geometry (87-95); Toshizumi Fukui, Introduction to toric modifications with an application to real singularities (96-114); Shihoko Ishii, The index of a log-canonical singularity (115-125); Kazuhiro Sakuma, Several problems in global singularity theory (Japanese) (126-133); Toru Ohmoto, On characteristic classes of fibers/images of mappings (Japanese) (134-139).