Singularity Theory: Proceedings of the European Singularities Conference, August 1996, Liverpool and Dedicated to C.T.C. Wall on the OccasSingularity theory draws on many other areas of mathematics and, in turn, contributes to many areas both within and outside mathematics, including differential and algebraic geometry, knot theory, differential equations, bifurcation theory, Hamiltonian mechanics, optics, robotics and computer vision. This volume consists of two dozen articles from some of the best known figures in singularity theory, and it presents an up to date survey of research in