Cubic Pencils and Painlev\'e Hamiltonians
  We present a simple heuristic method to derive the Painlev\'e differential equations from the corresponding geometry of rational surafces. We also give a direct relationship between the cubic pencils and Seiberg-Witten curves. 
Kenji Kajiwara, Tetsu Masuda, Masatoshi Noumi, Yasuhiro Ohta and   Yasuhiko Yamada