9401256 Green Professor Green will investigate problems in the geometry of projective varieties and commutative algebra. These include problems in Castelnuovo theory, syzygies of algebraic curves and generic initial ideals. This is research in the field of algebraic geometry. Algebraic geometry is one of the oldest parts of modern mathematics, but one which has had a revolutionary flowering in the past quarter- century. In its origin, it treated figures that could be defined in the plane by the simplest equations, namely polynomials. Nowadays the field makes use of methods not only from algebra, but from analysis and topology, and conversely is finding application in those fields as well as in physics, theoretical computer science, and robotics.
