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Justin Solomon

@justinmsolomon.bsky.social
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Associate prof, MIT EECS/CSAIL 💻🔬🦥🧀🏋️‍♀️🎼🐈🎻🏳️‍🌈 he/him/his

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Ahmed Mahmoud @ahdhn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Next week at #SIGGRAPH2026, we'll present "Fast Sparse Matrix Permutation for Mesh-Based Direct Solvers," with Behrooz Zarebavani, Ana Dodik, Changcheng Yuan, Serban Porumbescu, John Owens, Maryam Mehri Dehnavi, and @justinmsolomon.bsky.social . Talk: Wed., July 22, 3:55 PM, Room 403-B (1/6)
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Ahmed Mahmoud @ahdhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Next week at #SIGGRAPH 2026, we'll present "Locality-Aware Automatic Differentiation on the GPU for Mesh-Based Computations," with Rahul Goel, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and @justinmsolomon.bsky.social . Talk: Mon., July 20, 2:50 PM, Room 403-B Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... More below (1/7):
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🚀 I'm delighted to share an **open postdoc position** hosted jointly between our group at @csail.mit.edu and the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, mentored by me, Ankit Gupta, @lchoshen.bsky.social, and friends; the start date can be as early as fall 2026.
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Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 08/04/2026
I'll be hanging out at NESG (nesg.graphics) on Sunday, come say hi if you're in the area!
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Andreas Longva @andlon.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Stumbled upon this very nice talk by @justinmsolomon.bsky.social on optimization in geometry processing. I really enjoy this "zoomed out" perspective. It's very useful for someone like me, who works in a field adjacent to geometry processing (physics sim) and can perhaps use some of the same ideas!
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Distinguished Seminar in Computational Science and Engineering: Justin Solomon, 12/11/2025
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sina nabizadeh @sinabiz.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
📢 New England Symposium on Graphics 2026 returns April 12 at @mit.edu! Featuring talks by Profs Frédo Durand (MIT), @adrianaschulz.bsky.social (Brown), @theodore-kim.bsky.social (Yale), junior talks, posters, and networking. Free to attend!! Register: forms.gle/g5fWyLVqCfm8... Details: nesg.graphics
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Bruno Levy @brunolevy01.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It's time to visit an old friend ... There were signs - A nice Luxo lego under the tree - This year's TOG paper, a nice story to tell; - Embarked the TPC with Miri Ben-Chen and @justinmsolomon.bsky.social; - My daughter came with my old T-Shirt ACM SIGGRAPH, happy to see you again ! #siggraph2026
A photo with a lego Luxo Junior set, modified so that it sheds light on the ball, also made of lego, and on a glass ball with a galaxy in it, and an authentic SIGGRAPH 1998 T-Shift, with a bit faded colors.
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Announcing SGI 2026! Undergrads and MS students: Apply for 6 weeks of paid summer geometry processing research. No experience needed: 1 week tutorials + 5 weeks of projects. Mentors are top researchers in this emerging branch of graphics/computing/math. sgi.mit.edu
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Very nice profile of our group’s research by @csail.mit.edu — geometry is everywhere! cap.csail.mit.edu/engage/spotl...
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
When prompted to translate text, ChatGPT (in this case version 4o) also fixes a math mistake without telling the user it did so. This might feel like a feature but to me it illustrates a serious flaw: People using AI tools as "intermediaries" might not have their text faithfully translated.
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Dartmouth response to the Trump Administration Compact president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...
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Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President
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Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
By the way, I was involved with a committee of ACM SIGGRAPH (a large computer graphics conference) which in 2022 wrote a similar guide for new researchers. Some of this is specific to that field, but it also has useful tutorial material for all fields. (@justinmsolomon.bsky.social)
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Writing your first ACM SIGGRAPH / TOG paper – RCDC@SIGGRAPH
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
And once again in lecture I demonstrate that it’s impossible to correctly row reduce a 3x3 matrix by hand in front of 50 people.
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
i think my job as “Guy Who Counts Down to Halloween” is safe for now
AI overview google results for “how many more days until halloween” saying “There are 137 days until Halloween (October 31), as today’s date is June 14th, 2024.”
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
We just wrapped up the 5th Summer Geometry Initiative (SGI), bringing 30 Fellows to our cohort of 150+ alumni, who go on to PhD/MS programs, industry jobs, and more. Despite overwhelming success, SGI26 is uncertain thanks to the changing funding landscape. Please help by helping identify sponsors!
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I will be singing this. How should I interpret the final line that ends with “a r n O”
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Had one of the most bizarre/strangely memorable days of my academic career. Feel free to send cute pet photos while I dissociate in the Vancouver airport for a bit.
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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I could not be more disappointed in the management of SIGGRAPH for this, the most spineless of PR blog posts. Count me as someone who will not have their name on any submission to SIGAsia 2026. If enough of us withhold the content they sorely need, maybe next time they will engage more earnestly.
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Ruben Wiersma @rubenwiersma.nl · 30/07/2025
Mark your calendars for the #SIGGRAPH 2025 Thesis Fast Forward in-person event. Recent PhD graduates will present their thesis work and answer questions on Monday 11 August, 10:30-11:30am: s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
After 6+ mos of discussion and an open letter with 600+ signatures, SIGGRAPH leadership finally responded with...a short blog post? It only obliquely *acknowledges* the issue and doesn't articulate concrete change. What are the "nuances and complexities"? Insulting. www.siggraph.org/news/listeni...
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Listening, Acknowledging, & Recommitting to Our Community - ACM SIGGRAPH
Dear colleagues, As many are aware, an open letter was sent to the Executive Committee (EC) expressing concern about the selection of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as the location for SIGGRAPH […]
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Ana Dodik @anadodik.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Meschers got picked up by Gizmodo! gizmodo.com/meet-mescher... Thanks to @gayoung.bsky.social for the story!
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Meet Meschers, MIT's Tool for Building Paradoxical Digital Objects
A new tool developed by MIT researchers enables users to create detailed computer representations of mathematically impossible objects.
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Ana Dodik @anadodik.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Really excited to share this with you all! The website is already live at anadodik.github.io/publication/...
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Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects
Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects
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Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
While I was in Rotterdam for CogSci '24, I visited the Escher Museum and fell in love with his work all over again. Now, a year later, I'm delighted by this SIGGRAPH paper led by my friend Ana! (Say what you will about the technical details, you must admit that we came up with the ~perfect~ title.)
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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...
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MIT tool visualizes and edits “physically impossible” objects
The “Meschers” tool from MIT CSAIL represents “physically impossible” objects commonly found in M.C. Escher’s illustrations by converting both images and 3D models in 2.5-dimensional objects. The tool...
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Mirela Ben Chen @mirelaben.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I'll be the Technical Papers Chair at SIGGRAPH 2026 and @justinmsolomon.bsky.social will be the Technical Papers Assistant Chair. If you're interested in joining the SIGGRAPH 2026 TPC member pool, please fill in the following nomination form by Aug 15th 2025: forms.gle/FwY1KwBh7grt...
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SIGGRAPH 2026 Technical Papers Program Committee Nomination
Please apply by August 15th, 2025. Eligibility SIGGRAPH TPC members typically hold PhD degrees, have an academic position or a research position in the industry, and have published multiple papers a...
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Sigh. Not even @microsoft.com MS Paint is free of AI-ensh*ttification. I'm not looking for a bad clone of Illustrator/Photoshop, just a tool to quickly edit a pixel or two or crop a screen grab. Who asked for this??
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Managed to carve out an entire work day of “professor stuff” (in this case, writing up the HMC algorithm for new textbook edition in a way that isn’t morally/mathematically objectionable in its face) and it was glorious. No meetings, grant reports, fires to put out. Wish this happened more often.
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WiGRAPH @wigraph.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🎉☕ Announcing WiGRAPH Conference Coffees: SIGGRAPH 2025 Edition! ☕🎉 Are you a researcher of an underrepresented gender registered for SIGGRAPH? Do you want an opportunity to network with your peers? Learn more and sign up here: www.wigraph.org/events/2025-...
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WiGRAPH Conference Coffee: Sign-Up
WiGRAPH is organizing a SIGGRAPH 2025 conference coffee! Are you a researcher of a gender that is underrepresented at SIGGRAPH? Would you like for an opportunity to network with peers? Sign up for th...
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Ana Dodik @anadodik.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🚨🚨 WiGRAPH CONFERENCE COFFEE @ SIGGRAPH '25 🚨🚨 Sign up now to be randomly matched with peers for a SIGGRAPH conference coffee!
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
SGI 2025 starts in 1.5 hours! Excited to kick of year 5 of this program --- now with many volunteers who are SGI alumni who have gone off to graduate programs in the field.
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Something about these giant 👍 gmail-generated email responses feels highly aggressive.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Just feels real bad to be told your existence is too controversial to allow children to know about it
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Rook Bridson @rookbridson.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 is slated to be in Malaysia, which has some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ+ laws in the region, and will make many queer graphics people concerned for their safety to attend; the response to concerns so far has amounted mostly to "try not to stick out and offend local sensibilities" —
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I signed and encourage colleagues to do the same. Venue selection is fraught. Inevitably attendees will encounter visa issues, distance, expense, local politics, and other challenges. This venue, however, is simply unsafe for LGBTQ+ researchers, and the leadership's defensiveness is unacceptable.
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
New MIT GDP Group (left) and Summer Geometry Initiative (right) mugs just dropped! Collect them all: visitors to our lab get GDP mugs, and SGI mentors/volunteers/participants get SGI mugs. ☕️🫖🍵
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
MIT News today features a paper with fun examples coming out this summer by our brilliant PhD student Leticia Mattos Da Silva, postdoc—and Columbia professor in a matter of days!— @silviasellan.bsky.social, and PhD student collaborator Natalia Pacheco-Tallaj. news.mit.edu/2025/animati... Flubber!
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Animation technique simulates the motion of squishy objects
MIT researchers developed a computationally efficient method that could enable artists to design realistic simulations of elastic objects, like bouncy or squishy characters, for animated movies or vid...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
What an amazing start to our #Eurographics2025 keynotes from @justinmsolomon.bsky.social on optimization for geometry processing - lots of useful optimization tools, and so many more interesting challenges yet to be solved!
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The aftermath — I’m impressed with our colleagues’ ability to consume pizza and Costco products.
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Our final talk: Ed Chien and Ben Jones on computational knitting!
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
A record number of NESG posters this year!
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Now @mandyxmq.bsky.social, sharing her work on optical simulation and inverse rendering!
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Now Wojciech Jarosz, our keynote, to tell us about Monte Carlo geometry/PDE!
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Next up: Ticha Sethapakdi, helping us bridge between HCI, fabrication, and graphics!
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
After a brief (5 year 🤔) hiatus, the New England Symposium on Graphics is back! Kudos to our many audience members who got up early on a Saturday to catch @jamestompkin.bsky.social, our first speaker of the day. Not too late to join us! Find a schedule here: nesg.graphics
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Our Summer Geometry Initiative is more popular than ever, with a record # of applicants. But thanks to "2025 problems," SGI needs sponsors for it to survive past 2025. Please contact me if you're interested or have ideas!
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
My work days in 2025 largely involve being an armchair lawyer+therapist for students/postdocs anxious about visas, funding, job markets, discrimination, and a host of other topics I have no qualification to advise on. My professional training qualifies me to advise on matters involving...triangles?
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Ahmed Mahmoud @ahdhn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
📢New England Symposium on Graphics 2025 is BACK on April 26 at at MIT. Join us for inspiring talks, including a keynote by Prof. Wojciech Jarosz (Dartmouth) plus a poster session, networking, and more. Attendance is FREE—register now: forms.gle/5zWWAQL4KtU7.... Full details: nesg.graphics
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
SGI applicants: The site we use to host/process applications went down, and we haven’t received an update when it’ll be restored. Please hold tight and know we will release decisions as soon as we can. (Meanwhile, please refrain from emailing for an update or early decision.)
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Justin Solomon @justinmsolomon.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
When *reading* rec letters, does anyone actually find it useful when a rec includes a lengthy bio under their signature? I find the situations where I read a letter, read the bio, then think something like "oh, I need to reread in light of them having won 'best paper runner up' in 2012" uncommon...
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