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Dr. Anna Latouranna@mathstodon.xyz
2026-03-06

POV: you need a break from your vacation so you attend a seminar about a cool new paper at your old university. 🤓

paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3776643

preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2505.05162

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Title slide of a presentation.
Title: The Complexity of Testing Message-Passing Concurrency
Authors: Zhen Shi (NUS), Lasse Møldrup (Aarhus University), Umang Mathur (NUS), Andreas Pavlogiannis (Aarhus University)
Dr. Anna Latouranna@mathstodon.xyz
2026-03-02

@anna I always teach my students that when they make a list in their paper or presentation, all items on the list have to be in the same category, or of the same type. Might file this one in the “bad examples” folder 🤷‍♀️

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Dr. Anna Latouranna@mathstodon.xyz
2026-02-18

Devastated to discover that there is only one Trekkie among my students, and he hasn't even watched Voyager.

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Dr. Anna Latouranna@mathstodon.xyz
2026-02-16

To those who are interested in the 1984 entries:

On page 633 they discuss the development of interior point methods, following the work of Narendra Karmarkar in 1984, page 810 contains the associated bibliography entry, and page 811 contains the bibliography entry for the English translation of Levin's paper on Universal Search Problems.

I don't know why 1984 is the only year with an index entry. I can only assume it's an Easter egg.

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Dr. Anna Latouranna@mathstodon.xyz
2026-02-16
Start of the index of a textbook. The first elements of the index are "/", "//", "}", "!", "<", ">", "+" and "1984", some of which have dozens of page numbers listed after them.
Dr. Anna Latouranna@mathstodon.xyz
2026-02-09

RE: mathstodon.xyz/@anna/116039387

Wah it is Monday morning for sure!

Was lucky enough to make it to Delft train station, got my bike, raced to the office. When I arrived, it turns out that all the lifts were out of order, so I had to drag myself, my backpack, my big textbooks, and my sports bag up 5 flights of stairs.

After dropping off everything I didn't need, I wanted to leave my building so I could go to the building where my lecture was, only to find that the *door* was out of order.

Arriving at the lecture hall, I discovered that my Acrobat reader had died, so I had to uninstall and reinstall. That finally done, I had my slides up on the big screen and started my lecture, only for my laptop to crash when I tried to navigate to slide 2.

While it rebooted, I improvised the first part of my lecture without slides. The lecture hall was super cold, so I wanted to get tea, but the machine wasn't working...

After all the train and laptop problems I had on Friday, I can hardly blame Monday morning for this, but still 😳

At the end of the lecture a lot of questions from students that started with "Sorry, you probably covered this, but I missed the first part of the lectures because my train wasn't running..."

Students were cool, tho, so that was nice!

#ProfessorLife #Trains #Monday #AcademicChatter #MurphysLaw

Dr. Anna Latouranna@mathstodon.xyz
2026-02-09

Great. Took a 7:15 train to get to the office on time so I’d have some time to re-read my notes and set up my laptop etc before teaching a lecture at 8:45, but because of a “power failure” there are no trains between The Hague and Delft, so now I’m sardined into a delayed street, and will, in a best-case scenario, run sweatily into the lecture hall at 8:45 sharp 😩

At least there is a streetcar, I guess.

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Dr. Anna Latouranna@mathstodon.xyz
2026-02-07

My student walked into my office and stared at the open copies of Russell & Norvig and Kleinberg & Tardos on my desk, with a look of shock and horror on their face, and then went: Do you have time to read all of that‽

I mean... given the notes scribbled in the margins and the bookmarks sticking out of my books, I can hardly deny that I've read at least parts of them in quite some detail. If I admit that, however, my students are no longer going to buy the "sorry I don't have time for an extra meeting" line...

Anybody have a good comeback for me for the next time this happens? This time I just went with "er... that's kind of the idea of studying... that you read your textbooks..." 🤦‍♀️

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Dr. Anna Latouranna@mathstodon.xyz
2026-01-05

BREAKING: I am in my office! So much for my excuse to go home early. Might still do so if the painkillers don't kick in within the next hour.

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Dr. Anna Latouranna@mathstodon.xyz
2026-01-05

Me, last year: Let's not take all my notes with me. Let's just leave them at the office and try to have a proper Xmas break. Also, let's already put some clean, dry, professional clothes in your office, because January might be wet and you might be groggy on the first day and tired and not wanting to carry so much stuff.

Me, this morning: Oof, too much snow to ride my bike. I'll walk, instead. Good thing I don't have to carry all my notes and dry clothes, but have everything waiting for me in my office. Thank you, Anna-of-the-past.

The lock on my office door: hahahhahahhahaha you think I'm going to open for you? Nah.

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2025-12-04

Beautiful experience at the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka 🇧🇦
Thanks to David Mastikosa for inviting me 🤗

#lecture #erasmus #bosnia #academyofarts #banjaluka #professorlife

Nicola Monopoli tiene una lezione per gli allievi dell’Accademia delle Arti di Banja Luka nell’aula multimediale dell’istituzioneQuattro allieve dell’Accademia delle Arti di Banja Luka posano con Nicola Monopoli per una foto al termine della lezioneNicola Monopoli osserva il lavoro degli allievi di Banja LukaNicola Monopoli indica e spiega un passaggio sullo schermo durante la lezione, con un’allieva seduta che ascolta, all’Accademia delle Arti di Banja Luka
2025-11-23

Foto di gruppo 📸
Incontri col contemporaneo - 22 novembre 2025
📍Laboratorio Urbano GOS - Barletta

#concerti #allievi #musicaelettronica #electroacoustic #contemporarymusic #composerlife #professorlife #conservatorio

Nicola Monopoli e i suoi allievi al termine del concerto, seduti a bordo palco, foto in bianco e nero
2025-09-09

Allievi che diventano maestri, complimenti ad Antonio Mazzeo per il suo bellissimo workshop su arduino.

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Nicola Monopoli e Antonio Mazzeo sorridono di fronte al manifesto del workshop “Arduino per l’audio e la creatività”, tenuto da Antonio Mazzeo e coordinato da Nicola Monopoli, per Meet and Code e Amazon Future Engineer.
2025-06-25

Con i miei allievi Simona Dichio ed Eugenio Granieri al termine della prima esecuzione dei loro lavori per cajon ed elettronica. Un duo innovativo che ci riserverà tante novità nel prossimo futuro 🥁🪇

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Foto a bordo palco. Al centro il docente, Nicola Monopoli, affiancato dai suoi due allievi, Simona Dichio ed Eugenio Granieri, al termine di un’esecuzione di brani per cajón ed elettronica. L’atmosfera è rilassata e amichevole, in bianco e nero.
Tony Penninobeatnikprof@mas.to
2025-02-12

Can I get the Severance thing but just for faculty meetings?
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🇪🇷GötterdämmerungGotterdammerung@glitch.social
2025-01-21

First day of Spring semester: when professors emerge from hibernation to face a sea of deadeyed students, with the futile hopes our syllabus isn't longer than their attention span.

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Tony Penninobeatnikprof@mas.to
2025-01-07

Just reviewed my students’ comments from last semester. It seems I assign too much reading. (NB: I teach upper division literature courses.) 🤦‍♂️ #academicchatter #academia #professorlife

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