RT Book, Section T1 Superisolated Surface Singularities A1 Artal Bartolo, Enrique A1 Luengo Velasco, Ignacio A1 Melle Hernández, Alejandro A2 Lossen, Christoph A2 Pfiste, Gerhard AB In this survey, we review part of the theory of superisolated surface singularities (SIS) and its applications including some new and recent developments. The class of SIS singularities is, in some sense, the simplest class of germs of normal surface singularities. Namely, their tangent cones are reduced curves and the geometry and topology of the SIS singularities can be deduced from them. Thus this class contains, in a canonical way, all the complex projective plane curve theory, which gives a series of nice examples and counterexamples. They were introduced by I. Luengo to show the non-smoothness of the μ-constant stratum and have been used to answer negatively some other interesting open questions. We review them and the new results on normal surface singularities whose link are rational homology spheres. We also discuss some positive results which have been proved for SIS singularities PB Cambridge University Press SN 9780521683098 YR 2006 FD 2006 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/53231 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/53231 LA eng NO Papers from the conference held at the University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, October 18–20, 2004 DS Docta Complutense RD 8 abr 2025