Updates
A record of past events, publications, and milestones, in reverse chronological order.
2026
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June 2026
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
Delivered a talk titled Teaching logical statements at the undergraduate level: Why one common definition gets in the way at the fifth 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
I was a resource person for the Summer School for Women in Mathematics and Statistics (ICTS Bengaluru), from 11 to 19 June 2026.
I also delivered a popular talk there on 12 June 2026 titled What is Combinatorial Thinking? [YouTube]
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June 2026
Delivered a popular talk titled What is Combinatorial Thinking? on 12 June 2026 at the 8th edition of the Summer School for Women in Mathematics and Statistics (ICTS Bengaluru). [YouTube]
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June 2026
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 Bangalore) 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.
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 Bangalore).
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June 2026
My Ph.D. 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 Chawda presented our joint work with Saraswati Girish Nanoti (IISc Bangalore), On the Majority Game Chromatic Number of Trees, and Vishnu spoke on Tight Bounds on the Carathéodory and Exchange Numbers in \(\triangle\)-Convexity.
I am 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 Chawda won the Prof. S. S. Shrikhande Memorial Endowment Best Paper Award.
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June 2026
Presented a contributed talk, Tight Bounds on the Carathéodory and Exchange Numbers for \(\triangle\)-Convexity Spaces, based on work with my student Vishnu, at the fourth edition of the Annual Meru Combinatorics Conference (IIT Bhilai).
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May 2026
Admitted as an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.
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May 2026
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
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
Launched the new lab website.
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Apr 2026
Participated in the LeanLang for Verified Autonomy Hackathon, organized by Emergence Research Lab (IISc Bangalore).
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Apr 2026
Held a session on Competency-based Learning in Mathematics at the STEM Teacher Training Program (IIT Jodhpur).
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Mar 2026
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
Received a Research Initiation Grant of Rs. 4 lakhs from IIT Jodhpur.
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Feb 2026
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
My 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
Joined the Department of Mathematics at IIT Jodhpur as Assistant Professor.