Mostafa Touny
@mostafatouny.com
RA at AUC - https://mostafatouny.com/
It took us years of bloodbath to be here. Sticking to one short-sighted narrative is bad for everyone. All of humanity should celebrate this day for a long living peace. #Israel #Palestine
October 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
It took us years of bloodbath to be here. Sticking to one short-sighted narrative is bad for everyone. All of humanity should celebrate this day for a long living peace. #Israel #Palestine
Following up D. Kurtzer, I found he did support Palestine as well. Full report: www.mei.edu/sites/defaul...
October 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Following up D. Kurtzer, I found he did support Palestine as well. Full report: www.mei.edu/sites/defaul...
In my home country, and even within the community of The American University in Cairo, a US ambassador to Israel is not welcomed to speak.
auc.alquds on Instagram
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October 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
In my home country, and even within the community of The American University in Cairo, a US ambassador to Israel is not welcomed to speak.
#Palestine is calling for help, rebuilding its universities. #science
Quote: In light of the systematic destruction of every university by Israeli forces, rendering the academic community nonfunctional, our focus now has shifted mostly to rebuilding Gaza’s higher education system.
Quote: In light of the systematic destruction of every university by Israeli forces, rendering the academic community nonfunctional, our focus now has shifted mostly to rebuilding Gaza’s higher education system.
Scientists for Palestine - Scientists For Palestine
Scientists for Palestine is in mourning after the devastating loss of tens of thousands of lives in Gaza, impacting collaborators and relatives within our organization. In light of the systematic dest...
www.scientists4palestine.org
October 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
#Palestine is calling for help, rebuilding its universities. #science
Quote: In light of the systematic destruction of every university by Israeli forces, rendering the academic community nonfunctional, our focus now has shifted mostly to rebuilding Gaza’s higher education system.
Quote: In light of the systematic destruction of every university by Israeli forces, rendering the academic community nonfunctional, our focus now has shifted mostly to rebuilding Gaza’s higher education system.
September 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The first time I see manifolds used by practitioner AI engineers. #science #AI
thinkingmachines.ai/blog/modular...
thinkingmachines.ai/blog/modular...
Modular Manifolds
A geometric framework for co-designing neural net optimizers with manifold constraints.
thinkingmachines.ai
September 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The first time I see manifolds used by practitioner AI engineers. #science #AI
thinkingmachines.ai/blog/modular...
thinkingmachines.ai/blog/modular...
Long history but an embarassing present, #Egypt. We have all the tools but no good utilization. #science.
Download: filebin.net/r4a0bb1ken1n...
Download: filebin.net/r4a0bb1ken1n...
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Long history but an embarassing present, #Egypt. We have all the tools but no good utilization. #science.
Download: filebin.net/r4a0bb1ken1n...
Download: filebin.net/r4a0bb1ken1n...
I started a crowdsourced meta-project to list all the other crowdsourced mathematical research projects that are currently active and seeking participants: mathoverflow.net/questions/50...
List of crowdsourced math projects actively seeking participants
I believe that with the advent of modern online collaboration platforms (such as Github), proof assistant languages (such as Lean), and (potentially) AI tools, there are many emerging opportunities...
mathoverflow.net
September 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Excellent advice to young students: Rebellion pays — don't follow the system. #science
Pearl on the importance of rebellion to science.
YouTube video by Turing Awardee Clips
youtu.be
September 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Excellent advice to young students: Rebellion pays — don't follow the system. #science
Quote: "war to destroy Hamas is basically morally justified, even if there are innocent casualties".
I denounce. innocent casualties should never be justified but declared as a war crime. It's a militant operational failure for the IDF and US, if innocent casualties is their only solution. #israel
I denounce. innocent casualties should never be justified but declared as a war crime. It's a militant operational failure for the IDF and US, if innocent casualties is their only solution. #israel
For the record
In response to my recent blog posts, which expressed views that are entirely boring and middle-of-the-road for Americans as a whole, American Jews, and Israelis (“yes, war to destroy Hamas is basic…
scottaaronson.blog
September 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Quote: "war to destroy Hamas is basically morally justified, even if there are innocent casualties".
I denounce. innocent casualties should never be justified but declared as a war crime. It's a militant operational failure for the IDF and US, if innocent casualties is their only solution. #israel
I denounce. innocent casualties should never be justified but declared as a war crime. It's a militant operational failure for the IDF and US, if innocent casualties is their only solution. #israel
Excited to see a joint Ramsey Theory seminar between @marylanddot.bsky.social and The American University in Cairo (AUC). #MathSky #Math
September 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Excited to see a joint Ramsey Theory seminar between @marylanddot.bsky.social and The American University in Cairo (AUC). #MathSky #Math
New Analysis lecture videos and problem sets by MIT OCW. 18.100b is more proof demanding. #MathSky
ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-1...
ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-1...
Real Analysis | Mathematics | MIT OpenCourseWare
This course gives an introduction to analysis, and the goal is twofold:
1. To learn how to prove mathematical theorems in analysis and how to write proofs.
2. To prove theor...
ocw.mit.edu
September 3, 2025 at 7:54 AM
New Analysis lecture videos and problem sets by MIT OCW. 18.100b is more proof demanding. #MathSky
ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-1...
ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-1...
A wonderful Algebraic Geometry workshop by our Egyptian stars:
- Moaaz & Hussien, Representation Theory & Algebraic Geometry, PhD students
@uoregon.bsky.social
- Hazem Hassan, Arithmetic Geometry, PhD student
@mcgill.ca
#MathSky #Math #Egypt
- Moaaz & Hussien, Representation Theory & Algebraic Geometry, PhD students
@uoregon.bsky.social
- Hazem Hassan, Arithmetic Geometry, PhD student
@mcgill.ca
#MathSky #Math #Egypt
August 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A wonderful Algebraic Geometry workshop by our Egyptian stars:
- Moaaz & Hussien, Representation Theory & Algebraic Geometry, PhD students
@uoregon.bsky.social
- Hazem Hassan, Arithmetic Geometry, PhD student
@mcgill.ca
#MathSky #Math #Egypt
- Moaaz & Hussien, Representation Theory & Algebraic Geometry, PhD students
@uoregon.bsky.social
- Hazem Hassan, Arithmetic Geometry, PhD student
@mcgill.ca
#MathSky #Math #Egypt
Math is reputed to be for a limited gifted segment of people. I found this from an advice for startups: paulgraham.com/13sentences.... #MathSky #Math
August 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Math is reputed to be for a limited gifted segment of people. I found this from an advice for startups: paulgraham.com/13sentences.... #MathSky #Math
This online Complex Analysis book contains cool interactive visualizations: complex-analysis.com/content/anal...
There is a good potential in augmenting books with modern educational tools. #Math #MathSky
There is a good potential in augmenting books with modern educational tools. #Math #MathSky
August 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This online Complex Analysis book contains cool interactive visualizations: complex-analysis.com/content/anal...
There is a good potential in augmenting books with modern educational tools. #Math #MathSky
There is a good potential in augmenting books with modern educational tools. #Math #MathSky
I have just discovered a quality open-access Geometric Deep Learning course: geometricdeeplearning.com as part of African Master’s in Machine Intelligence: aimsammi.org #ML #MachineLearning #AI
August 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I have just discovered a quality open-access Geometric Deep Learning course: geometricdeeplearning.com as part of African Master’s in Machine Intelligence: aimsammi.org #ML #MachineLearning #AI
Retracting a flawed P ≠ NP paper is involving extensive argumentation rather than a clear immediate resolution. Many more weird things in this world, anyway.
Quote:
- "The Editor-in-Chief declined to retract the article."
- "The authors of the paper in question have asked me to link to their reply."
Quote:
- "The Editor-in-Chief declined to retract the article."
- "The authors of the paper in question have asked me to link to their reply."
August 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Retracting a flawed P ≠ NP paper is involving extensive argumentation rather than a clear immediate resolution. Many more weird things in this world, anyway.
Quote:
- "The Editor-in-Chief declined to retract the article."
- "The authors of the paper in question have asked me to link to their reply."
Quote:
- "The Editor-in-Chief declined to retract the article."
- "The authors of the paper in question have asked me to link to their reply."
Researchers subjectively believe in their directions before progressing through them. #science #TCSsky
Quote: "Many people believed that there’s no better way. Duan wasn’t one of them. He’d long dreamed of building a shortest-paths algorithm that could break through the sorting barrier."
Quote: "Many people believed that there’s no better way. Duan wasn’t one of them. He’d long dreamed of building a shortest-paths algorithm that could break through the sorting barrier."
My latest in @quantamagazine.bsky.social: a new algorithm solves the classic single-source shortest paths problem faster than ever before — by finding paths out of order:
New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes | Quanta Magazine
A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.
www.quantamagazine.org
August 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Behind every technical progress, there is a story of people and life. #MathSky #Math
Quote: "I was somewhat lonely. Math was sort of there as a friend almost."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
Quote: "I was somewhat lonely. Math was sort of there as a friend almost."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
Teen Hannah Cairo's Mathematical Discovery Sends Ripples through Harmonic Analysis
When she was just 17 years old, Hannah Cairo disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, breaking a four-decade-old mathematical assumption
www.scientificamerican.com
August 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Behind every technical progress, there is a story of people and life. #MathSky #Math
Quote: "I was somewhat lonely. Math was sort of there as a friend almost."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
Quote: "I was somewhat lonely. Math was sort of there as a friend almost."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
I don't know how significant Geometry, Topology, or Algebra, will be on machine learning. Nonetheless, It's great to see a paper surveying and introducing such emerging fields. #AI #MathSky #TCSsky
arxiv.org/abs/2407.09468
arxiv.org/abs/2407.09468
August 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
I don't know how significant Geometry, Topology, or Algebra, will be on machine learning. Nonetheless, It's great to see a paper surveying and introducing such emerging fields. #AI #MathSky #TCSsky
arxiv.org/abs/2407.09468
arxiv.org/abs/2407.09468
Where else would we find a TCS community, if not in the US? #TCSsky
Wow. Had not realized that Columbia’s settlement with Trump admin included a commitment to decrease international student enrollment. In what way does this help “combat antisemitism,” which is supposedly the administration’s objective?
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Trump And Miller Compel Colleges Not To Enroll International Students
Trump officials are using rules, policies and agreements to compel and discourage U.S. universities from enrolling international students.
www.forbes.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Where else would we find a TCS community, if not in the US? #TCSsky
Hamas is reported to be seizing Palestinians' starvation as a political tool to put pressure on negotiations. Not the first irresponsible act, though. Such a tragedy to see starvation becoming a game by Hamas and #Israel for their own political plans. #Palestine
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve
Starvation only helps Hamas end the war in a way that advances its aims.
www.theatlantic.com
August 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Hamas is reported to be seizing Palestinians' starvation as a political tool to put pressure on negotiations. Not the first irresponsible act, though. Such a tragedy to see starvation becoming a game by Hamas and #Israel for their own political plans. #Palestine
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Junior researchers like me won't feel good, seeing Terry losing his grant. #MathSky
For the math folks on here: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
NSF Award Search: Award # 2347850
Structure theory for measure-preserving systems, additive combinatorics, and correlations of multiplicative functions
www.nsf.gov
August 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Junior researchers like me won't feel good, seeing Terry losing his grant. #MathSky