ABHYANKAR 82nd BIRTHDAY CONFERENCE 

SPEAKER: Anatoly Libgober (Chicago)

TITLE: Fundamental groups of the complements to singular curves.

ABSTRACT: I will review recent development in the study of the fundamental
groups of complex plane singular curve in particular relation between the
Mordell Weil ranks of isotrivial elliptic threefolds and the fundamental groups
of the complements ot their discriminants.