ALGEBRAIC KNOTS ASSOCIATED WITH MILNOR FIBRATIONS

In this paper, after reviewing basic material on Milnor fibrations, we explain topological invariants of algebraic knots associated with isolated singularities of complex hy-persurfaces. These invariants have their origins in knot theory and are very important for the classification of isolated singularities of complex hypersurfaces up to certain topological equiv-alence relations. These relations correspond to isotopy and cobordism of associated knots. We also discuss the existence of non-trivial examples of real Milnor fibrations and the fibered knot conjecture.