I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

"Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.”
Joel Hildebrand

MIT News today features a fun SIGGRAPH paper by GDP student Ana (@geometry.gay) collaboarting w/ students @yukaryote.bsky.social @kartikchandra.bsky.social plus us old folks. This work explores what it means to do geometry processing on Escher-like "impossible" shapes! news.mit.edu/2025/mit-mes...

I have a quick question about active subspaces ...

SGI at MIT is truly a transformative experience—learn, collaborate, and innovate in geometry processing with amazing mentors. Don’t miss it!

Whenever I'm to provide a professional assessment— of ideas or someone’s performance (including mine)—I like to begin by listing the positives first. This helps avoid any subconscious tendency to inflate the positives, either out of guilt for raising criticism or due to potential intellectual bias.

Friends in industry: As 2024 comes to a close, if your budget has room, consider joining the sponsors of the Summer Geometry Initiative (SGI)! SGI is entering year 5 with a proven track record bringing a diverse set of brilliant students into graphics/vision/ML/math research.

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Science rarely affords you the luxury of being exactly right about anything. Critics of your work will expect you to have all the answers at once, but in fact progress is more often about being vaguely right and working your way toward the truth one small step at a time.

Documentation is key, but it is a boring task. 😄

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📢 Excited to share the announcement of the upcoming free international winter school in mathematical analysis!

🗓️ Dec 9–12, 2024
📍 AUC Cairo Campus
🎓 Topics & Speakers:

T. Elgindi (Duke University): Transport and Mixing