Updates
A record of past events, publications, and milestones, in reverse chronological order.
2026
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Sep 2026
Brahadeesh participated on the MATRIX side in the MATRIX-MFO Tandem Workshop: Combinatorial Interchange, held simultaneously at MATRIX in Creswick (Australia) and MFO in Oberwolfach (Germany), from 7 to 11 September 2026.
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Aug 2026
Brahadeesh chaired a session at the Workshop on Advanced Methods in Integral Equations and Their Applications (IIT Jodhpur) on 18 August 2026.
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July 2026
SURAJ interns Vaibhav Suvagiya and B James Mejulan presented posters on their summer projects at IIT Jodhpur on 15 July 2026. Vaibhav's poster was on RAMO: A Verified MaxSAT Repair Oracle for Tabu Search on Ramsey 2-Colouring, A De-Confounded Negative Result, and James's poster was on Generators and Relations for Discrete Groups.
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July 2026
Brahadeesh Sankarnarayanan participated in the conference on Frontiers in Combinatorics - Topology, Algebra and Data-Driven Insights at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, from 6 to 10 July 2026, where he led a research discussion group on Extremal problems on fractional intersecting families.
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July 2026
PhD student Yash Chawda delivered a contributed talk, On the Majority Game Chromatic Number of Trees, based on joint work with Brahadeesh and Saraswati Girish Nanoti (IISc), on 6 July 2026 at the conference on Frontiers in Combinatorics - Topology, Algebra and Data-Driven Insights at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus.
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June 2026
Brahadeesh participated in the 11th edition of the Indian School on Logic and Applications (Krea University, Sri City) from 25 to 30 June 2026.
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June 2026
Brahadeesh delivered a talk titled Teaching logical statements at the undergraduate level: Why one common definition gets in the way at the 5th edition of the Conference on the Practice of Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics (Krea University, Sri City), on 20 June 2026.
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June 2026
Brahadeesh was a resource person for the Summer School for Women in Mathematics and Statistics (ICTS Bengaluru), from 11 to 19 June 2026.
He also delivered a popular talk there on 12 June 2026 titled What is Combinatorial Thinking? [YouTube]
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June 2026
Brahadeesh chaired the 5th lecture in the Prof. R. Balakrishnan Endowment Lecture series, How to obtain the Tutte polynomials of graphs from representation-theoretic methods?, delivered by R. Venkatesh (IISc) at the 22nd edition of the Annual Conference of the Academy of Discrete Mathematics and Applications & International Conference on Discrete Mathematics (IIT Madras), on 7 June 2026.
He also delivered the 15th lecture in the Prof. E. Sampathkumar Memorial Endowment Lecture series, Intersection Graphs and Path Representations, on 10 June 2026, which is celebrated as Graph Theory Day in India in honor of his birth anniversary. The talk was based on joint work with Niranjan Balachandran (IIT Bombay), Shagnik Das (National Taiwan University), and Umesh Shankar (IISc).
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June 2026
The lab's PhD students presented contributed talks at the 22nd edition of the Annual Conference of the Academy of Discrete Mathematics and Applications & International Conference on Discrete Mathematics (IIT Madras), on 7 June 2026. Yash presented his joint work with Brahadeesh and Saraswati (IISc), On the Majority Game Chromatic Number of Trees, and Vishnu spoke on Tight Bounds on the Carathéodory and Exchange Numbers in \(\triangle\)-Convexity.
The lab is delighted to add that both talks were shortlisted for the Prof. S. S. Shrikhande Memorial Endowment and Prof. R. Balakrishnan Endowment Best Paper Awards, and Yash won the Prof. S. S. Shrikhande Memorial Endowment Best Paper Award.
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June 2026
Brahadeesh presented a contributed talk, Tight Bounds on the Carathéodory and Exchange Numbers for \(\triangle\)-Convexity Spaces, based on work with his student Vishnu, at the 4th edition of the Annual Meru Combinatorics Conference (IIT Bhilai).
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May 2026
Brahadeesh was admitted as an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.
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May 2026
Brahadeesh organized a screening of Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani, a documentary film by George Csicsery, under the Mathematics Society (IIT Jodhpur).
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May 2026
Brahadeesh gave an expository talk, A Combinatorial Gem of Maryam Mirzakhani: List Colorings of Planar Graphs, at the One Day Symposium Celebrating Women in Mathematics (IIT Jodhpur).
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May 2026
The lab launched its new website.
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Apr 2026
Brahadeesh participated in the LeanLang for Verified Autonomy Hackathon, organized by Emergence Research Lab (IISc).
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Apr 2026
Brahadeesh held a session on Competency-based Learning in Mathematics at the STEM Teacher Training Program (IIT Jodhpur).
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Mar 2026
Brahadeesh organized Career Opportunities Beyond Academia, a one-day interaction session with industry professionals, under the Mathematics Society (IIT Jodhpur).
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Mar 2026
Brahadeesh received a Research Initiation Grant of ₹ 4,00,000 from IIT Jodhpur.
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Feb 2026
Brahadeesh co-organized An Introductory Workshop on the Lean Theorem Prover, a three-day workshop led by T. V. H. Prathamesh (Krea University) (IIT Jodhpur).
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Jan 2026
Brahadeesh's paper 5-list coloring toroidal 6-regular triangulations in linear time with Niranjan Balachandran appeared in Discrete Applied Mathematics. [entry]
2025
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Sep 2025
Brahadeesh Sankarnarayanan joined the Department of Mathematics at IIT Jodhpur as Assistant Professor.