Scientific Organisers:

• Victor Goryunov, University of Liverpool

• Dirk Siersma, Universiteit Utrecht

• Victor Vassiliev, Steklov Institute

The purpose of the meeting was to bring together experts in geometrical and topological branches of singularity theory and in some adjacent areas where these branches find applications. The major aims of the workshop were to disseminate new results and ideas, to foster new developments within singularity theory and to look for new areas of application and interaction.

Speakers:

• Duco van Straten, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität - Periods and Frobenius Polynomials
  

• Mihai Tibar, Université de Lille 1 - On the Simplicity of Surfaces

• Sabir Gusein-Zade, Moscow State University - Filtrations Corresponding to Ideals and their Poincaré Series

• Wolfgang Ebeling, Leibniz Universität Hannover - McKay Correspondence for the Poincaré Series of Kleinian and Fuchsian Singularities

• Andras Szucs, Eötvös Loránd University - Multiplicative Structure on the Cobordism Groups of Morin Maps

• Maxim Kazarian, Steklov Institute of Mathematics - Stabilization of Thom Polynomials
  

• David Mond, University of Warwick - Functions on the Milnor Fibrations of Linear Free Divisors

• Anne Fruehbis-Krueger, Leibniz Universität Hannover - Computational Desingularization and the Strict Transform 

• Bradford Hovine, University of Toronto - Matrix Factorizations of the Classical Discriminant

• Grigory Mikhalkin, University of Toronto - Singularities of Effective Tropical Cycles

• Ilia Itenberg, Université Louis Pasteur - Recursive Formulas for Welschinger Invariants

• Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, University of Toronto Scarborough - Classifying Determinantal Presentations of Hypersurface Singularities

• Gert-Martin Greuel, University of Kaisersalautern - Invariants and Classification of Singularities in Positive Characteristic

• Alexey Gorinov, University of Liverpool - Mixed Hodge Structures on Configuration Spaces of Algebraic Varieties and Applications to Moduli Spaces of Pointed Genus 1 Curves

• Anna Pratoussevitch, University of Liverpool - Higher Spin Structures on Riemann Surfaces

• Alejandro Melle Hernández, Universidad Complutense de Madrid - On a Conjecture by A Durfee

• Terry Wall, University of Liverpool - Geometry of Space Curves

• Ilya Tyomkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Geometry of Severi Varieties on Hirzebruch Surfaces

• Elizabeth Gasparim, University of Edinburgh - Characteristic Classes of Sheaves on Singular Varieties

• Eugenii Shustin, Tel Aviv University - On deformations of Real Plane Curve Singularities

• Vladimir Zakalyukin, University of Liverpool - Non-Standard Equivalence Relations for Singularities