In this note we study deformations of a plane curve singularity (C,P) toδ(C,P) nodes. We see that for some types of singularities the method of A'Campo can be carried on using parametric equations. For such singularities we prove that deformations to δ nodes can be made within the space of curves of the same degree.

The hypersurface in ${ℂ}^3$ with an isolated quasi-homogeneous elliptic singularity of type ${\tilde{E}}_r,r=6,7,8$, has a natural Poisson structure. We show that the family of del Pezzo surfaces of the corresponding type $E_r$ provides a semiuniversal Poisson deformation of that Poisson structure. We also construct a deformation-quantization of the coordinate ring of such a del Pezzo surface. To this end, we first deform the polynomial algebra $ℂ[x_1,x_2,x_3]$ to a noncommutative algebra with generators $x_1,x_2,x_3$ and the following 3 relations labelled...