= Mihnea Popa
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<Mihnea Popa> works on <algebraic geometry>, including the birational classification of varieties and the geometry of families. His Harvard course on <Kodaira dimension> documents the connection with positivity and <Hodge theory>.https://people.math.harvard.edu/~mpopa/271/index.html[Author course description and instructor identity]{ref}
His <Kodaira dimension of algebraic varieties by Mihnea Popa> explains how sections of powers of the <canonical bundle> measure the growth of pluricanonical maps. For a smooth projective curve, the trichotomy between genus zero, genus one and higher genus appears as Kodaira dimension $-\infty$, zero and one. This gives a concrete entry into a classification invariant that remains meaningful in higher dimensions.<Kodaira dimension of algebraic varieties by Mihnea Popa>[Sections 1.1–1.3 and curve examples]{ref}
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