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Dr. Martin Skrodzki
@msmathcomp.bsky.social
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Assistant professor (academic track) at the Computer Graphics and Visualization group of TU Delft, working in the field of #illustratingmath, #dataviz, and #mathart. (he/him) Personal Website: https://ms-math-computer.science
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💡3-Month FULLY FUNDED Summer Internship in Germany!
🇩🇪 Apply for the Internship (Jul-Sep 2026) in Tübingen. Work on cutting-edge research in #ML, #Neuroscience & #DataAnalysis at MPI. Open to BSc./MSc. students.
🗓️Deadline: Nov 20, 2025
🔗 Apply: cactus-internship.tuebingen.mpg.de
A green and white poster for the CaCTüS: Computation & Cognition Tübingen Summer Internship (July-Sep 2026). The main graphic is a large green cactus wearing a graduation cap, with Tübingen city skyline silhouettes below. The 3-month fully funded internship is at the Max-Planck-Institutes and AI Center Tübingen, Germany, focusing on research in machine learning, electrical engineering, theoretical neuroscience, behavioral experiments, and data analysis. It aims to support talented students facing challenges in higher education. Application Deadline: November 20, 2025. Apply at: cactus-internship.tuebingen.mpg.de. A QR code is also present. Who can apply: Bachelor/master students in computer science, maths, physics, engineering, neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, bioinformatics, and related fields. For more info, visit the website or email cactus-internship@tuebingen.mpg.de. Logos for Max Planck Institute and Tübingen AI Center are at the bottom.
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Come by for the next #illustratingMath seminar online on Friday, November 14th, at 9am US Pacific / 12pm US Eastern / 6pm Central Europe. We will hear from Vladimir Bulatov, about "creating and visualizing symmetries", flanked by two "show and ask" talks. See you there!
Seminar poster with a vibrant, blue, purple, and red fractal pattern on the right and text on the left. The event title is "CREATING AND VISUALIZING SYMMETRIES." The talk is by Vladimir Bulatov on Friday, November 14. It includes times for US Pacific (9 AM), US Eastern (12 PM), and Central Europe (6 PM). The talk features "Show and Ask" Presenters Caleb Madrigal and Juliet Fiss. Includes a URL: https://illustratingmath.org/ and a QR code for the Zoom link.
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Are you okay? Or is it just bluesky?
October 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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The #illustratingMath Seminar Online returns on Friday, October 10th, 9 am Pacific / 12 pm Eastern / 6 pm Europe. @3blue1brown.com will be "Exploring Zeta Function Visualizations." Gabriel and Jim will provide some "Show and Ask" input. See you online on Friday!
A dark-themed event poster titled "EXPLORING ZETA FUNCTION VISUALIZATIONS." The poster includes an abstract about visualizing the Riemann Zeta function. A colorful, three-dimensional plot of a mathematical function dominates the right side. The bottom features a circular photo of the presenter, Grant Sanderson from 3Blue1Brown. The event is scheduled for Friday, October 10, with times listed, and will be held on Zoom.
October 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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I have seen so much underwear when I just wanted some hyperbolic space 😅 #MathSky #BeltramiKlein
September 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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This looks like a great tool #illustratingMath and letting you explore different #reactionDiffusion patterns. A while ago, we have looked into #3D patterns, if anybody is up for writing a similar explorer for that, I'd be delighted.
September 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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The #illustratingMath Seminar Online returns for the fall tomorrow: Friday, September 12th, 8 am Pacific / 11 am Eastern / 5 pm Europe. Nancy Scherich will speak about "Using dance videos to explain knot theory."🕺💃Spoilers here: gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/.... See you online tomorrow!
An event poster with the title "USING DANCE VIDEOS TO EXPLAIN KNOT THEORY." The poster features two images: a large one of two dancers and a smaller, circular photo of a presenter named Nancy Scherich. Details about the event's abstract, date, time, and presenters are also included, along with a QR code and a Zoom link: https://virginia.zoom.us/j/97786599157?pwd=jr0dvbolVZ6zrHZhjOSeE2aFvbl6Ix.1
September 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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I have this one in my "Linear Algebra for Computer Graphics" lecture 😀
August 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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The final #illustratingMath talk of today - and indeed of this week's conference at the @icerm.bsky.social - is given by Savannah Cofer. She explains to us how "Folding of Origami Cubes" works.🧊What better way to close the week than with origami-inspired robots!🤖The future is here😀
A photograph of a three-dimensional sculpture of a hand made from translucent, light-brown material. The hand is standing on a clear, reflective square base against a black background. A presentation slide with diagrams of different origami patterns, including "Sheet Origami," "Cubic Origami," "Sheet Origami Crane," and "Origami Cube Crane." The diagrams show crease patterns and the resulting 3D shapes. A person is presenting, gesturing towards the screen. The slide is titled "Modular Robotics Approach A: Intra-Reconfigurability" and displays two images of small, cubic modular robots. A person is presenting in front of a whiteboard. The slide is titled "Expanding the 'Toolkit' of Origami Cubes!" and shows a grid with diagrams of various folded paper cubes and a table with rows for "Range Space," "Self-Locking," and "Rigidly Foldable."
August 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Next is Olga Paris-Romaskevich, who brings to us a "Mathematical utopia in the dystopian times: Streetmath, #Math girls, and MATHEMATIKA." All three projects are amazing examples of mathematical #SciCom projects, executed by Olga, and spreading the fun of #illustratingMath.
A person is presenting in front of a whiteboard, holding a piece of paper. The screen shows a title slide for a talk on "Mathematical utopia in the dystopian times," with the speaker's name and affiliation, and a photo of a colorful stone. A person is presenting in front of a whiteboard. The slide is titled "My three reasons for 'illustrating mathematics'" and features three columns with text and images, including a geometric diagram, photos of people in a crowd and playing on pavement, and a cartoon-style illustration. A person is presenting in front of a whiteboard, gesturing with one hand. The screen shows three images of chalk art on pavement. The main image shows a child playing on a colorful chalk pattern of interlocking shapes. A person is presenting in front of a whiteboard. The slide is titled "Math girls - a colourful book on sociology of mathematics practice" and lists ten questions, with illustrations and pages from the book displayed on the right.
August 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The first talk in the final triplet of #illustratingMath talks at the @icerm.bsky.social is given by Benjamin Young, who tells us about "Partitions, Modules and Minecraft." Technically, he is telling us *from* #Minecraft, as his entire talk is flying us through a Minecraft world. Such fun!
A person is presenting in front of a whiteboard. The screen displays a scene from a video game, likely Minecraft, with several wooden signs in the foreground listing names and affiliations. A screenshot from a video game, likely Minecraft, showing a massive mathematical equation built out of white blocks on a black background, floating above a landscape. A person is presenting, holding a small black object. The screen shows a scene from a video game, likely Minecraft, with large geometric structures made of glass, gold, and other materials on a landscape. A floating sign says "P=Sum of 3 cylinders". A person is standing in front of a whiteboard with drawings. The screen displays a video game world, specifically Minecraft, featuring a large, ornate, multicolored cubic structure built on a grassy hillside.
August 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Next up is @bernatree.bsky.social, speaking about "Collinear Fractals - Unveiling the Hidden Geometry of Polynomial Roots." Looking at complex trees🌳🌴🌲, he takes their visualization to a whole new level. Stunning stuff! Check out more of his work here: complextrees.com.
A person is presenting via video call. The presentation slide is a title page for a talk on "Collinear Fractals - Unveiling the Hidden Geometry of Polynomial Roots," featuring a colorful fractal image. A person is presenting via video call. The screen displays a complex mathematical graph with multiple curves, equations, and several small fractal diagrams illustrating different points on the graph. A person is giving a presentation via video call, gesturing with their hand. The slide displays a large, complex fractal pattern and a quote, with a red arrow pointing to a magnified detail. A person is presenting via video call. The slide shows several mathematical diagrams, including a fractal pattern, equations, and a description of "Asymptotic self-similarity."
August 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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The first #illustratingMath talk at the @icerm.bsky.social today is by Florent Schaffhauser from @uniheidelberg.bsky.social , speaking about "Algebra, Logic and Proof Visualization." He tells us how he worked with students on creating a game and some visualizations in the Lean theorem prover.
A person is presenting via video call, with a building labeled "MATHEMATIKON" in the background. The slide lists undergraduate seminars and student activities, with four mathematical illustrations below the text. A person is presenting via video call, with a building labeled "MATHEMATIKON" in the background. The slide shows a title "A visualization challenge" and a description of a seminar, along with an image of a book cover and a diagram. A person is presenting via video call, with a building labeled "MATHEMATIKON" visible behind them. The screen displays code on the left and a complex flowchart-like diagram on the right. A person is presenting via video call, with a building labeled "MATHEMATIKON" in the background. The screen displays a code editor on the left and a detailed flowchart diagram on the right, which appears to be a proof visualization.
August 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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The second talk is by Stepan Paul, who tells us about "Topological Origami: Beyond the Paper Donut."🍩Flat tori are known, but what about a flat Klein Bottle? Stepan shows us a first prototype (that fails at six points ) as well as a corrected model that's on the arxiv arxiv.org/abs/2504.08826.
A split screen shows a person at a podium and a slide with a diagram of a "Flat Klein Bottle with curved crease origami," which is a grid-like, cylindrical shape that has been bent into a V-shape. A split screen shows a speaker and a slide with two identical 3D renderings of a grid-like, folded geometric object, a "flat Klein Bottle." A person presents with a split screen, showing them and a slide featuring a complex, folded geometric object with a title "A Piecewise Smooth Isometric Immersion of a flat Klein Bottle." A person is giving a talk, with a split screen showing them and a slide with two images of a transparent, cylindrical shape made of crisscrossing blue and white lines.
August 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Starting the #illustratingMath talks at the @icerm.bsky.social today is Elliot Kienzle, who aims to settle the question how "To draw a torus." Like all good answers, his is based on differential geometry, taking the geometry of the torus into account when drawing. And Escher's there, too😄
A person is giving a talk, with a split screen showing them and a slide with a hand-drawn diagram of a perfectly smooth torus with the title "The Perfect torus?". A split screen shows a person presenting and a slide with a hand-drawn diagram illustrating the difference between "Mathematical Precision" and "Mathematical Imprecision" when constructing a torus. A split screen shows a speaker and a slide with a hand-drawn diagram explaining the "Gauss map/Normal map," using a torus and a sphere to illustrate the concept. A person presents with a split screen, showing them and a slide with a sketch of M.C. Escher's "Hand with Reflecting Sphere" and the word "Torus" written below it.
August 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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The last talk for the morning is by Michael Musty. His topic: "Visualizing genus zero dessins." While the name derives from the French term for "children's drawings," the content is deeply rooted in advanced algebra, which makes it an even more fitting #illustratingMath project.
A man presents with a split screen, showing him and a slide with a complex diagram and a mathematical equation illustrating a "Degree 3 example." A split screen shows a man at a podium and a computer screen displaying an intricate geometric diagram with numbered labels and red and purple highlights. A man is giving a presentation, with a split screen showing him and a website interface with several mathematical diagrams, including a few showing geometric shapes with numbered labels. A split screen shows a speaker and a website interface with three thumbnail images of a geometric diagram with lines and points, with the middle diagram selected.
August 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Continuing the #illustratingMath talks in this topical week at the @icerm.bsky.social is Jiangmei Wu, an #artist, speaking about her "Mathematical Art: An Artist Perspective." We get a wonderful overview of her #art that she did over the last years, including some beautiful #MathArt.
A split screen shows a woman presenting and a slide displaying two pieces of mathematical art, one in black and white by M.C. Escher and another with a yellow and black pattern. A woman is giving a talk, with a split screen showing her and a slide titled "Torus, 2017," featuring a series of images demonstrating the folding of paper to create a complex, circular geometric sculpture. A split screen shows a speaker and a slide with two diagrams of intricate, spiky, and gray symmetrical objects, along with some questions for the community. woman presents with a split screen, showing her and an image of a large, white geometric sculpture outdoors, with several people interacting with it.
August 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Next is Dorota Celińska-Kopczyńska, telling us about "Solv and Nil: visualization with serious and not-so-serious applications." She takes us through a real-time rendered trip through different geometries, especially two of the eight Thurston geometries. Both image and mind-bending!
A woman presents with a split screen, showing her and a slide with a black background where many colorful, multi-pointed stars are falling. A split screen shows a woman giving a talk while holding a small, spherical object, and a slide displaying a complex, interwoven red and blue geometric sculpture inside a black circle. A woman is giving a presentation, with a split screen showing her and a slide with a dark background where green geometric shapes are floating in a tunnel-like space. A woman points to a diagram on a whiteboard, and the split screen shows a 3D wireframe model of a complex, flowing shape.
August 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Kicking off today's #illustratingMath talks at @icerm.bsky.social is @stevejtrettel.bsky.social, speaking about "A Gravitational Photograph." He's telling (and showing) us what it would be like to take a picture📸 of a dinosaur🦕using a black hole⚫️as a lens. It's blurry, but if you squint ... 👀
A split screen shows a speaker and a slide with a cartoon diagram of a dinosaur being transformed by passing through a black hole-like shape, with a stick figure cartoon at the bottom. A split screen shows a man speaking, and a slide featuring a green cartoon dinosaur next to a green swirling ring on a black background. A man presents with a split screen, showing him and a dark screen filled with a grid of glowing green, circular patterns. A man is giving a presentation, with a split screen showing him and a slide featuring a 3D rendering of a green dinosaur on a purple platform in a dark room.
August 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Next up is Karen Parshall with her talk on " #illustratingMath in The Mathematical Intelligencer." She shares considerations on how they chose cover images for "The Mathematical Intelligencer," keeping entertainment, information, and "an air of mystery" in mind. I love the latter!
A woman is giving a talk, with a split screen showing her and a slide of "The Mathematical Intelligencer" magazine cover, which is a collage of multiple photos of people. A woman presents with a split screen, showing her and a slide with the "The Mathematical Intelligencer" cover art, which is a pattern of cartoon slices of cake. A split screen shows a speaker and a slide with "The Mathematical Intelligencer" cover, featuring a stylized illustration of a bridge and city. A split screen shows a woman presenting and a slide displaying the cover of "The Mathematical Intelligencer" with four hand-drawn portraits of mathematicians.
August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Continuing talks at the @icerm.bsky.social #illustratingMath workshop week is Gabriel Dorfsman-Hopkins, speaking about "Perspectives on Algebraic Starscapes: How Aesthetic Choices Lead to Mathematical Insight." Check out the paper with Shuchang Xu: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... Just beautiful!
A speaker is shown on a split screen alongside a slide featuring an intricate, radial pattern of blue and white dots centered on a horizontal line. A man speaks, while a slide on the screen shows text and a diagram of glowing, interconnected points in a dark space, illustrating a mathematical concept. A split screen shows a speaker and a slide with two abstract, dark blue and white diagrams side-by-side, comparing "Quartics sized by discriminant" and "Quartics sized by rigidity." A man presents with a split screen, showing him and a slide with the title "Algebraic Properties of Bohemian Matrices" and two colorful, abstract data visualizations.
August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The second talk is by @peterkagey.com, who is speaking about "Enumerating Truchet tiles on the faces of polyhedra." This is a collaborative project within the @prisonmathproject.bsky.social, together with William Keehn. Starting from M.C. Escher, the two explore some rich combinatorics problems.
A man speaks, while a split screen shows him and a slide with a quote about M.C. Escher and several examples of his black and white patterned designs. A man is giving a presentation, with a split screen showing him and a slide with the title "Counting Tilings of the n x m Grid, Cylinder, and Torus" and the authors' names. A man presents with a split screen, showing him and a slide featuring a mathematical equation that calculates to 65, along with a diagram of a tiled tetrahedron. A split screen shows a speaker and a slide with a table titled "Icosahedral group conjugacy classes" and a diagram of a polyhedron with colored dots.
August 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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First talk, kicking off the #illustratingMath topical workshop at @icerm.bsky.social is by @henryseg.bsky.social on "Variants of the 15-puzzle and the effects of holonomy." Henry shows us different variations of puzzles, all using holonomy in one way or another. I'm now itching to play with these.
A split screen shows a man giving a talk on the left, and a close-up of hands holding a blue and white numbered sliding block puzzle on the right. A man is giving a presentation, with a split screen showing him and a close-up of hands manipulating a purple and green 3D-printed puzzle. A man presents with a split screen, showing him and a close-up of hands assembling a blue and orange 3D-printed puzzle. A split screen shows a speaker on the left, and three wooden sculptures with nested white geometric frames on the right, representing a triangle, a square, and a pentagon.
August 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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🚨Paper Alert🚨
My PhD student Mrinal Dhume and I did a workshop at the Bridges #Mathart conference on "Exploring Math Illustrations: Draw, Deduce, Discuss!" Paper: archive.bridgesmathart.org/2025/bridges...
I'll do a version of the workshop at the upcoming @icerm.bsky.social #illustratingMath week.
A hand-drawn diagram comparing two sets of numbers, one with a checkmark and one with an X, to visually explain the concept of coprime numbers. A grid of ten by ten squares, with the top-left square labeled "1," filled with green checkmarks and red X's, resembling a sieve for finding prime numbers. A hand-drawn diagram of the Pythagorean theorem, showing three squares of different sizes forming a right-angled triangle, and a separate equation showing the two smaller squares adding up to the largest one. A hand-drawn diagram illustrating a division problem with a remainder, showing a large circle of dots being separated into three smaller groups and a leftover group.
August 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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And that's a wrap for my report from this year's Bridges #MathArt conference. It was great, as always! Many thanks to the organizers for a wonderful week of #MathArt. If you're interested, join us in Galway, 5-8 August '26. www.bridgesmathart.org/b2026/ 👋
A modern university building, with "Tu/e" lit up on its roof, stands against a twilight sky, accompanied by trees and a colorful geometric sculpture on the campus grounds. A woman stands on a stage, holding a microphone and speaking, in front of a screen displaying "Bridges Galway August 5-9 2026 Cead Mile Fáilte".
July 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM