Volume 5:
Proceedings of the International Conference on Singularity Theory and Applications, Hefei, China, July 25-31, 2011

Contents

Preface i
Editor: Laurentiu Maxim

Multidimensional residue theory and the logarithmic de Rham complex 1
A. G. Aleksandrov

Chern classes of free hypersurface arrangements 19
Paolo Aluffi

Orbifold groups, quasi-projectivity and covers 33
Enrique Artal Bartolo, José I. Cogolludo-Agustín, and Daniel Matei

Intersection spaces and hypersurface singularities 48
Markus Banagl and Laurentiu Maxim

First cases of intersection spaces in stratification depth 2 57
Markus Banagl

Homotopically trivial deformations 85
Javier Fernández de Bobadilla and János Kollár

Homological representations of braid groups and KZ connections 94
Toshitake Kohno

Chern classes of logarithmic vector fields 109
Xia Liao

Factors of Jacobians and isotrivial elliptic surfaces 115
A. Libgober

Motivic bivariant characteristic classes and related topics 124
Jörg Schürmann and Shoji Yokura

Equivariant Chern classes and localization theorem 153
Andrzej Weber