Upcoming Presentations and Talks
Alladi 70: University of Florida. March, 2026. Title: TBD.
UTRGV Algebra and Number Theory Seminar, November, 2026 TBD.
Recent Presentations and Talks
Brownsville Seminar: Title: New Generating Functions for Gaussian Polynomials. UTRGV, Brownsville, Texas. October 10, 2025.
Title: New Generating Functions for Gaussian Polynomials. Special Session on Number Theory; Annual Joint Meeting of the Österreichische Mathematische Gesellschaft and the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, The Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, September 1-5, 2025 (Monday - Friday).
Title: Congruences and combinatorial witnesses for partitions with at most a prime number of parts. AMS Special Session on Recent Developments in Areas Influenced by Ramanujan's Mathematics; 2025 Fall Western Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Denver, CO, August 23-24, 2025 (Saturday - Sunday).
New Generating Functions for Gaussian Polynomials. 37th Automorphic Forms Workshop; April 30 - May 4, 2025. University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. (Wednesday - Sunday).
New Generating Functions for Gaussian Polynomials. AMS Special Session on Partitions and q-Series; 2025 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Hartford, Hartford, CT, April 5-6, 2025 (Saturday - Sunday).
Formulas for integer partition functions and the usefulness of a forgotten technique. Joint Meetings of the NZMS, AustMS, and AMS; Monday - Friday, December 9-13, 2024, Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand.
Formulas for integer partition functions and the usefulness of a forgotten technique. AMS Special Session on Partitions and q-Series; Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting - CANCELLED, Georgia Southern University - Armstrong Campus, Savannah, GA, October 5-6, 2024 (Saturday - Sunday)
Congruences and Cranks for partitions bounded by part size and number. "The Legacy of Ramanujan 2024: Celebrating the 85th Birthdays of George Andrews and Bruce Berndt." June 6-9, 2024, Penn State University. [Presentation .pdf]
Congruences and Cranks for partitions bounded by part size and number. Eleventh Discrete Geometry and Algebraic Combinatorics Conference, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, February 24-25, 2024, Brownsville, Texas.
Congruences and Cranks for partitions bounded by part size and number. 18th Annual International Conference on Srinivasa Ramanujan and International Conference on Number Theory, Tuesday - Thursday, December 20 - 22, 2022, at SASTRA Deemed University, Kumbakonam, India.
Congruences, Cranks and Combinatorial Witnesses for Coefficients of Gaussian Polynomials. AMS Special Session on Experimental Mathematics in Number Theory and Combinatorics; Saturday & Sunday, November 2-3, 2019, Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Upcoming Sessions Organized
AMS Special Session on Partition Theory and q-Series; January 2026, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, DC.
AMS Special Session on Experimental Mathematics; 2025 Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, New Orleans, LA - Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, October 3-5, 2025 (Friday - Sunday) With Armin Straub (University of Southern Alabama) and Luis Medina (University of Puerto Rico)
Recent Sessions Organized
AMS Special Session on Partition Theory and q-Series; Wednesday, January 8, 2025, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, Washington.
AMS Special Session on Additive Number Theory and Modular Forms; Saturday and Sunday, September 14-15, 2024, Fall Central Sectional Meeting, University of Texas, San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.
AMS Special Session on Partition Theory and q-Series; Thursday & Friday, January 4-5, 2024, Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Francisco, California.
AMS Special Session on Experimental Mathematics in Number Theory and Combinatorics; Friday & Sunday, October 13-15, 2023, Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama.
AMS Special Session on The Intersection of Number Theory and Combinatorics; Saturday & Sunday, September 17-18, 2022, Fall Central Sectional Meeting, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas.
AMS Special Session on Partition Theory and Related Topics; Thursday & Friday, April 7-8, 2022, Virtual Joint Mathematics Meetings.
AMS Special Session on Partition Theory and Related Topics; Saturday & Sunday, November 2-3, 2019, Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Conferences Organized
NSF/CBMS Research Conference: Ramanujan's ranks, Mock Theta Functions, and Beyond. May 16-20, 2022. University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley. Principal Speaker: Frank Garvan of the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Europe 2025
L to R: Yours truly, Michael Schlosser (U Vienna), Krishna Alladi (U Florida), and Nicolas Smoot, (U Vienna)
I own far too many Icelandic sweaters for someone living in southern Texas.
Pictures from New Zealand 2025
Math in New Zealand
(Gaurav Bhatnagar, Expansion formulas for elliptic hypergeometric series)
A very nice picture of Lecture Hall partitions
(Jang Soo Kim, Lecture hall graphs and the Askey scheme)
Math friends in New Zealand
Family in New Zealand
(A bit of math here too, believe it or not.)
Pictures from India and the December, 2022 Ramanujan Prize Conference.
Arriving at the University
Giving my Lecture
Professor Krishna Alladi presenting me with a gift to commemorate the occasion.
At lunch with (L-R) me, Will Savin, Michael Schlosser, and Krishna Alladi.
L-R: Will Savin (2021 SASTRA Ramanujan Winner), Shai Evra (2020 SASTRA Ramanujan Winner), and me (not a prize winner, but delighted to be there!)
A golden bust of Ramanujan
Sitting in the street facing window of Ramanujan's childhood home.
Another golden bust of Ramanujan at SASTRA.
Some fans.
More fans.
Visiting a temple.
A picture from the rooftop of our hotel in Chennai.