Another, less technical and more personal, interview (in Bulgarian).

Invited talks at conferences, seminars, colloquia, some with slides and videos:

"Symmetric functions: introduction, applications, generalizations and open problems" tutorial, Program "Geometry, Statistical Mechanics and Integrability", IPAM. talk 1 slides, video 1; talk 2 slides, video 2. 

Mathematics Colloquium, UT Dallas, TX, November 2023.

"All Kronecker coefficients are reduced Kronecker coefficients" lecture at IPAC 2023. (video, slides)

Structure constants in algebraic combinatorics: complexity and asymptotics minicourse at   Summer school in Algberaic, Asymptotic and Enumerative Combinatorics, Bedlewo, Poland, July 31-Aug 4 2023.

"Symmetric group characters are computationally hard", FPSAC 2023, Davis, CA. slides, video

Mathematics Days in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Minicourse on "Asymptotic Algebraic Combinatorics", DIMERS ANR final conference,  Paris, France.

AMS Regional Meeting Sepcial Session, Fresno, CA.

Computational Complexity in Algebraic Combinatorics, Current Developments in Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. talk video, slides 1, slides 2

Computational Complexity in Algebraic Combinatorics, Colloquium, UC Berkeley, CA.

Guest Speaker Series, CCR, La Jolla, CA.

Special Colloquium, University of  Toronto, Canada.

Special Colloquium, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.

Poset inequalities, Enumerative Combinatorics workshop, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut OBerwolfach, Germany. 


From the Representation Theory of the Symmetric Group to Computational Complexity and back, Representation Theory and Applications session at PRIMA congress, Vancouver, Canada.


Asymptotic Algebraic Combinatorics PNW Integrable Probability Conference, Corvallis, OR.


Combinatorial identities for CFS of Dyck paths with bounce 2 and 3, Interactions between Hessenberg Varieties, Chromatic Functions, and LLT Polynomials workshop, BIRS, Banff, Canada.

Complexity and Algebraic Combinatorics, Geometry in Complexity and Computation conference, Konstanz, Germany, Sept 2022. (in person, slides)

The world of poset inequalities ICECA 2022, Sept 2022 (online, video, slides)

Poset inequalities, Algorithmic and Enumerative Combinatorics conference, Vienna, Austria, July 2022. (in person, slides)

The world of poset inequalities, Heilbronn Meeting on Permutation Patterns, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, June 2022. (in person)

Hook formulas for skew shapes, Combinatorial and Algebraic Enumeration conference, University of Waterloo, Canada, May 2022.  (in person, video available, slides)

Structure constants: complexity and asymptotics, Open Problems in Algebraic Combinatorics conference, University of Minnesota,  May 2022. (in person, video available, slides)

How hard is it to prove computational hardness, UC Santa Cruz Mathematics Colloquium, April 2022. (in person)

Sorting probabilities for Young diagrams, Rutgers Experimental Math seminar, March 2022. (online, video available, slides)

Hook formulas for skew shapes and beyond, Brandeis University Combinatorics Seminar, March 2022. (online)

The Kronecker coefficients of the Symmetric group in Complexity and Combinatorics,  Optimization under Symmetry workshop, Simons Institute, Berkeley. December 2021. (hybrid, video available, slides)

Lozenge Tilings and Algebraic Combinatorics, MSRI Members seminar, Berkeley, November 2021. (hybrid, video available, slides)

Kronecker and plethysm coefficients, GCT 2022 school lecture series, November 2021. (online, video available, slides)

Linear extensions of posets: inequalities, BIRS workshop on Dynamic Algebraic Combinatorics, November 2021. (hybrid, videos available)

Sorting probabilities and random walks, UC Davis Probability seminar, October 2021. 

Hook length formulas for skew shapes and beyond, Michigan State University Combinatorics and Graph Theory seminar, October 2021. (online)

Linear extensions of posets and lattice paths: inequalities and log-concavity, Berkeley Combinatorics Seminar, October 2021, Berkeley, CA. (hybrid , video available)

Computational Complexity is "hard"National Mathematics Colloquium, July 2021, IMI, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria. (hybrid, video available)

The mysterious Kronecker coefficients of the Symmetric group: Algebra and Logic Seminar,  July 2021, IMI, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria. (online, video available)

Unimodality and Kronecker asymptotics via random variables  CanaDAM 2021 New trends in Analytic Combinatorics minisimposium, May 2021. (online,  slides)

The mysterious Kronecker coefficients: IMSc Algebraic Combinatorics seminar, Institute for Mathematical Sciences,  November 2020, Chennai, India. (online, video available)

Mathematics Colloquium at  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,  November 2020, Urbana, IL. (online)


CMI-HIMR Integrable Probability Summer School,  3 minicourse lectures: Talk 1: Algebraic combinatorics basics (slides); Talk 2 (slides) and 3 (slides): Algebraic combinatorics meets probability: statistical mechanics and asymptotics ,  July 2020, Cambridge, UK (online, video available)

Unimodality, Log-concavity and beyond workshop,  March 2020, Mittag Leffler Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

Kronecker, Plethysm, and Sylow Branching Coefficients and their applications to Complexity Theory workshop,  February 2020, Mathematics Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany.

University of Hannover Algebra seminar, February 2020, Hannover, Germany.

UCSD Computer Science Theory seminar,  January 2020, San Diego, CA.

Joint Mathematics Meetings,  Special Session on Combinatorial Structures and Integrable Systems,  January 2020, Denver, CO.

UC Davis Combinatorics Seminar, October 2019, Davis, CA. 

Discrete Geometry and Algebraic Combinatorics,  September 2019, South Padre Island, TX.

Genome Architecture and Dynamics workshop, July 2019, Varna, Bulgaria. (participant)

Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics July 2019, Ljubljana, Slovenia: "Counting Partitions inside a Rectangle", poster, abstract.

Enumerative Combinatorics minisymposium at the 7th Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference (CanaDAM), Vancouver, Canada. May 2019.

Asymptotic Algebraic Combinatorics worshop, BIRS, Banff , Canada. (co-organizer) March 2019.

Representation theory connections to (q; t)-Combinatorics workshop, BIRS, Banff , Canada. January 2019.

Algebraic Methods workshop (in "Lower bounds in computational complexity"),  Simons Institute, Berkeley, CA. December 2018. Talk video

Exactly Solvable Quantum Chains workshop, IIP-UFRN, Natal, Brazil. June 2018.

Enumerative Combinatorics workshop, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany. 

Towards NEW Theoretical Biology meeting, University of Pennslvania, Philadelphia, PA. (panelist) 

Combinatorial Representation Theory, AMS Meeting Special Session, Boston, MA. 

Cornell Combinatorics Seminar , Ithaca, NY, March 2018.

UC Berkeley Mathematics Colloquium, Berkeley, CA. March 2018.

Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics in Okayama, Japan, February 2018. (plenary speaker) 

Mathematics Colloquium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, January 2018. 

Mathematics Seminar, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria. January 2018

Geometric R-Matrices in Combinatorics and Probability workshop, MATRIX Institute, Unviersity of Melbourne, Australia. December 2017 

Members Seminar , Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. December 2017. Talk abstract, slidesvideo.

Computer Science and Discrete Math Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. November 2017. (talk video) 

Discrete Mathematics Seminar, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. November 2017 

Discrete Mathematics Seminar, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. November 2017 

Algebra--Number Theory seminar , University of Maryland, College Park, MD. November 2017 

Enumerative Combinatorics Workshop, Erwinn Schroedinger Institute, Vienna, Austria. October 2017. 

Integrability across mathematics and physics, Berkeley, CA, September 2017. 

Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (plenary speaker), London, UK, July 2017. 

Midwest Combinatorics Conference (plenary talks), Minneapolis, MN, May 2017.

Algebraic Combinatorixx workshop, BIRS, Banff, Canada. May 2017. 

Combinatorics Seminar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Apr 2017.

Seminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, Ottrott/Strasbourg, France. Mar 2017.

Asymptotic Representation Theory workshop, Institute Henri Poincare, Paris, France. Feb 2017.

Rice Mathematics Colloquium, Rice University, Houston, TX, Jan 2017.

UCSD Mathematics Colloquium, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA. Jan 2017. 

Large Random Structures in Two Dimensions workshop, Institute Henri Poincare, Paris, France. Jan 2017.

MIT Combinatorics Seminar, MIT, Cambridge, MA, Nov 2016.

Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) conference, New Brunswick, NJ. Oct 2016. 

AMS Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting , Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME. Sept 2016. 

Kronecker Coefficients Conference 2016 , City University London, United Kingdom. Sept 2016. 

Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics conference, Vancouver, Canada. Jul 2016.

University of Pennsylvania CAGE seminar, Philadelphia, PA. Jun 2016. 

Six-vertex model, dimers, shapes and all that workshop, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, NY. Mar 2016. 

UCLA Combinatorics Seminar, Los Angeles, CA. Mar 2016. 

Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics, Greensboro, NC, (plenary speaker). Feb 2016. 

Texas A&M University Probability / Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar , College Station, TX, Nov. 24 2015. 

AMS Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Probability, Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Nov. 14, 2015. 

Haverford Mathematics Colloquium, Haverford, PA, Nov. 2, 2015. 

University of Rochester Probability Seminar, Rochester, NY, OctoOct. 9, 2015

Temple University Mathematics Colloquium, Philadelphia, PA, October 5, 2015. 

Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, Daejeon, Korea. July 7, 2015. 

AMS-EMS-SPM joint meeting, Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics and Representation Theory, Porto, Portugal. June 13, 2015.  slides

Lattice Models: Exact Results and Combinatorics workshop, Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Florence, Italy. May 20, 2015. 

Limit Shapes workshop, ICERM, Providence, RI. April 17, 2015. 

University of Virginia Algebra Seminar, UVA, Charlottesville, VA. March 20, 2015. 

Columbia/Courant Probability Seminar: Random Tilings, New York, NY. February 27, 2015.

Princeton University Combinatorics Seminar, Princeton, NJ. February 25, 2015. 

Joint AMS/MAA meeting, Special Session on Probability and Applications, San Antonio, TX. January 10, 2015. 

Symbolic and Computational Methods for Tensors and Representation Theory, Simons Institute, Berkeley, CA. November 19, 2014. video and slides.

IMA workshop on Geometric and Enumerative Combinatorics, Minneapolis, MN. November 12, 2014. videos

AIM workshop: Combinatorics and Complexity of Kronecker coefficients, co-organizer, Palo Alto, CA. November 3-7, 2014.

AMS Meeting, Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, Halifax, Canada. October 18, 2014. 

Geometric Complexity Theory workshop, Simons Institute, Berkeley, CA. September 19, 2014. slides and video. 

Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, Chicago, IL, June 30, 2014. 

Stanley 70th birthday conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 24, 2014. 

SIAM Discrete Mathematics, Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics SS, Minneapolis, MN, June 16, 2014. 

UC Davis Mathematics Colloquium, Davis, CA, January 24, 2014. 

Caltech Mathematics Colloquium, Pasadena, CA, January 22, 2014. 

IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria, Colloquium, January 8 2014. 

ETH Zurich Fakultaet fuer Mathematik, Special Lecture, Zurich, Switzerland, January 6 2014. 

Washington University in St. Louis, Mathematics Colloquium, December 9 2013. 

University of Pennsylvania Mathematics Colloquium, December 4 2013. 

Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, November 19 2013. 

Vanderbilt Mathematics Colloquium, Nashville, TN, November 11 2013. 

UC Berkeley Combinatorics Seminar, Berkeley, CA, October 14 2013. 

UCSD Combinatorics Seminar, San Diego, CA, October 1 2013. 

University of Washington Combinatorics Seminar, Seattle, September 2013. 

Mathematical Congress of the Americas, Special Session on Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics, Guanajauto, Mexico, August 2013. 

Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, Paris, France, June 2013: slides on "Asymptotics of symmetric polynomials with applications to statistical mechanics and representation theory". 

Random tilings workshop, SUNY Stony Brook, February 2013. 

UCLA Probability Seminar, January 2013. 

UCLA Combinatorics Seminar, December 2012. 

FPSAC, Nagoya, Japan, August 2012. poster presentation on Dyck tilings, linear extensions, inversions and descents. 

Workshop on convex polytopes, RIMS Kyoto, Japan, July 2012. 

MSRI Postdoc Seminar, Berkeley, CA, March 2012. 

UC Berkeley Combinatorics Seminar, Berkeley, CA, March 2012. 

MSRI Evans Lecture Series, UC Berkeley, February 2012. 

Counting tricks with symmetric functions

UCLA Combinatorics Seminar, December 2011. Dyck tilings, linear extensions and descents 

Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, Reykjavik, June 2011. (best student paper award) 

Microsoft Research Theory Group, Redmond WA, May 2011. 

AMS Eastern Regional Meeting, College of the Holy Cross, April 2011. 

University of Pennsilvania Combinatorics Seminar, January 2011. 

MIT Combinatorics Seminar, November 2010. 

Permutation Patterns 2010, slides on Separable permutations, Robinson-Schensted and shortest containing supersequence. 

Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, San Francisco 2010. 

Joint Math Meeting 2010, Special Session on Permutations, January 2010.