Polynomials and Vanishing Cycles - Tibar, Mihai (Universite de Lille)

A systematic geometro-topological approach to vanishing cycles appearing in non-proper fibrations is proposed in this tract. Lefschetz theory, complex Morse theory and singularities of hypersurfaces are presented in detail leading to the latest research on topics such as the topology of singularities of meromorphic functions and non-generic Lefschetz pencils.