Volume 44, No. 2 (2008) Dedicated to Professor Heisuke Hironaka on the occasion of his "Kiju", that is, his 77th birthday.
Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences

- Preface
pp. 165–177 On the Mathematical Work of Professor Heisuke HironakaLê Dũng TrángBernard Teissier
pp. 179–182 Professor Heisuke Hironaka’s Contribution in Promoting Mathematical Sciences and Bringing up Talent in New GenerationsTadao Oda
pp. 183–211 Holonomy Groups of Stable Vector BundlesVikraman BalajiJános Kollár
pp. 213–257 A -Filtration of the Virasoro Minimal Series withBoris FeiginEvgeny FeiginM. JimboTetsuji MiwaYoshihiro Takeyama
pp. 259–314 Flops and Poisson Deformations of Symplectic VarietiesYoshinori Namikawa
pp. 315–369 On -conic BundlesShigefumi MoriYuri Prokhorov
pp. 371–401 Rigidity of Log MorphismsAtsushi Moriwaki
pp. 403–417 The Orbibundle Miyaoka–Yau–Sakai Inequality and an Effective Bogomolov–McQuillan TheoremYoichi Miyaoka
pp. 419–423 Flops Connect Minimal ModelsYujiro Kawamata
pp. 425–448 Divisorial Valuations via ArcsTommaso de FernexLawrence EinShihoko Ishii
pp. 449–494 Valuations and Plurisubharmonic SingularitiesSébastien BoucksomCharles FavreMattias Jonsson
pp. 495–506 Mordell–Weil Groups of a Hyperkähler a Manifold—A Question of F. CampanaKeiji Oguiso
pp. 507–543 Lattice Cohomology of Normal Surface SingularitiesAndrás Némethi
pp. 545–607 On the Density of Unnormalized Tamagawa Numbers of Orthogonal Groups INorihiko HayasakaAkihiko Yukie
pp. 609–639 Functoriality in Resolution of SingularitiesEdward BierstonePierre D. Milman
pp. 641–659 Simple Rational Polynomials and the Jacobian ConjectureLê Dũng Tráng
pp. 661–697 Elimination with Applications to Singularities in Positive CharacteristicOrlando Villamayor U.
pp. 699–724 Good Geometry on the Curve ModuliKefeng LiuXiaofeng SunShing-Tung Yau