Treffer: Theory of singularities for differentiable mappings: topology and applications. Proceedings of a symposium held at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, January 8--11, 1996

The articles of mathematical interest will be reviewed individually. Contents: Makoto Namba, Branch loci and monodromy of normal singularities (1-8); Shoji Tsuboi, Cubic hyper-resolutions of analytic varieties with hypersurface ordinary singularities of dimension \(\leq 5\) (9-18); Kimio Watanabe and Tomohiro Okuma, The second pluri-genus of surface singularities (19-26); Tohsuke Urabe, The Gauss map and the dual variety of real analytic submanifolds in a sphere or in hyperbolic space (Japanese) (27-30); Masahiro Shiota, Semialgebraic version of Thom's second isotopy lemma (31-32); Masahiko Suzuki, Blow analytic moduli of analytic functions of two variables (33-40); Karim Bekka and Satoshi Koike, The Kuo condition, Thom's type inequality and \((c)\)-regularity (41-49); Toshizumi Fukui and Masahiko Suzuki, Topological types of singularities of analytic functions (the work of the late Etsuo Yoshinaga) (Japanese) (50-57); Akihiro Saeki, Certain foliations on a ruled surface (Japanese) (58-66); Masahiko Tomonobu, \(\overline\Sigma^{n-p+1,1,11k}\) \((k=0,1,2,3,4)\) for stable map-germs of corank \(1\) (Japanese) (67-81); Wei-Zhi Sun, Classification of the local shadows of moving surfaces (82-91); Yasuhiro Kurokawa, Singularities for projections of contour lines of surfaces onto planes (92-104); Takaharu Tsukada, The stability of net fronts and their classification (Japanese) (105-111); Kazuhiro Sakuma, Special generic maps and the subsequent development (Japanese) (112-118); Jiro Adachi, Generic knots in tight contact \(3\)-manifolds (119-130); Goo Ishikawa, Topology of plane trigonometric curves and a duality for strangeness of plane curves derived from real pseudo-line arrangements (131-146); Carlos Biasi and Osamu Saeki, Self-intersection set of a generic map and a characterization of embeddings (147-160); Yuichi Yamada, On the number of complex points of a surface in an almost complex \(4\)-manifold (161-169); Yasuhiro Hara, Special generic map and \(L^2\)-Betti number (Japanese) (170-183).