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122      <p>Some talks (arranged in reverse chronological order) that I have given.</p>
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128<p><strong>Cataland: A Romance of Many Bijections</strong>, <em>Club of Mathematics, IISER Trivandrum</em>, online, November 2024. (<a href="/publ/talks/IISER_TVM_Talk.pdf">pdf</a>)</p>
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130<p><strong>Arithmetic Properties of Overpartition $k$-Tuples with Odd Parts</strong>, <em>2nd Meru Combinatorics Conference, GEHU, Bhimtal, India</em>, June 2023. (<a href="/publ/talks/Meru_Talk.pdf">pdf</a>)</p>
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132<p><strong>Partitions with fixed differences between largest and smallest parts with fixed multiplicity of the smallest part</strong>, <em>COmbinatorial Number Theory And Connected Topics - II, India</em>, online, February 2023. (<a href="/publ/talks/contact2.pdf">slides</a>)</p>
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134<p><strong>Talk on Pseudoscience</strong>, <em>InSCIgnis 2022, Tezpur University, India</em>, online, February 2022. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6pmuD87MNE">video</a>)</p>
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136<p><strong>How to discover Rogers-Ramanujan Identities</strong>, <em>National Mathematics Day, Tezpur University, India</em>, online, December 2021. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwUerZhM26E">video</a>)</p>
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138<p><strong>How Mathematics has helped shape civilization</strong>, <em>15 Minit Xikhya, Assam, India</em>, online, November 2021. (<a href="/publ/talks/15minit.pdf">slides</a>) (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f43tAl2HD8">video</a>)</p>
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140<p><strong>Parity Biases in Partitions and Restricted Partitions</strong>, <em>Mathematics Colloquium, Ashoka University, India</em>, online, November 2021. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koeTEGUHZkI">video</a>)</p>
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142<p><strong>An Invitation to the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities</strong>, <em>Berchmans Webinar Series in Mathematics, St. Berchmans College, Kerala, India</em>, online, August 2021. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6s_jYjxH3k">video</a>)</p>
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144<p><strong>Combinatorial Reciprocity Theorems: Some Examples</strong>, <em>Institute Seminar, Institute of Mathematics and Applications, Bhubaneswar, India</em>, online, July 2021. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhCEMKvquak">video</a>)</p>
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146<p><strong>Refined enumeration of symmetry classes of Alternating Sign Matrices</strong>, <em>Topics in Special Functions and Number Theory, online seminar, India</em>, November 2020. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKNPj_lTDlk">video</a>)</p>
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148<p><strong>Refined Enumeration of Symmetry Classes of Alternating Sign Matrices</strong>, <em>Combinatorics in Algebra, Topology and Graph Theory (CATGT) Webinar, India</em>, September 2020. (<a href="/publ/talks/CATGT_Talk.pdf">pdf</a>)</p>
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150<p><strong>The Remarkable Sequence $1, 1, 2, 7, 42, 429, 7436, \cdots$</strong>, <em>Gurucharan College, Silchar, India</em>, August 2020. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGSGl5ydBZA">video</a>)</p>
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152<p><strong>Hard and Easy Instances of L-Tromino Tilings</strong>, <em>International Conference on Mathematical Modelling in Applied Sciences (online), Dibrugarh University, India</em>

152, June 2020. (<a href="/publ/talks/Dibru_Talk.pdf">pdf</a>)</p>
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154<p><strong>The Story of Alternating Sign Matrices … so far</strong>, <em>Mathematics Seminar, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy</em>, July 2019. (<a href="/publ/talks/ICTP_Talk.pdf">pdf</a>)</p>
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156<p><strong>Tiling Problems and Perfect Matchings</strong>, <em>Vienna Doctoral School Colloquiuim, University of Vienna, Austria</em>, March 2018. (<a href="/publ/talks/VDS_PhD_Talk.pdf">pdf</a>)</p>
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158<p><strong>Graphical Condensation and Aztec Rectangles</strong>, <em>Tezpur University, Assam, India</em>, May 2016. (<a href="/publ/talks/Aztec_Talk.pdf">pdf</a>)</p>
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