we study variations of the bergman kernel and their asymptotic behaviors at degeneration. for a holomorphic family of hyperelliptic nodal or cuspidal curves and their jacobians, we announce our results on the bergman kernel asymptotics near various singularities. for genus-two curves particularly, asymptotic formulas with precise coefficients involving the complex structure information are written down explicitly. time permitting, we would like to talk about the equality part of the suita conjecture as an application.