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“Overview of Mathematical Strategies for Playable Games” at MSRI, November 1, 2015

“The Game of Amazons” at MoMath/MOVES, August 4, 2015

“Popular Misconceptions” Kailath Lecture at Stanford, April 5, 2013

“Coupon Go” at American Collegiate Go Association, Harvard University, March 23, 2013

“Adventures in Coding” Viterbi Lecture at University of Southern California, March 3, 2011

“Coupon Go” at Professional Coupon Go Tournament at Mind Sports Center, Beijing, China, October 25-27, 2010

“What We Learned from the First Professional Coupon Go Tournament”, at the Banff International Research Station, Banff, Alberta, Canada; January 20 to January 25, 2008

“Overview of Combinatorial Game Theory” at MIT, Cambridge, MA; January 15, 2008 (part of an IAP Course)

“Impartial Games” at Berkeley Math Circle; January 8, 2008

“History of Long Block Codes” at Canadian Math Society; London, Ontario; December 10, 2007

“Keynote address” at First Professional Coupon Go Tournament, Seoul Korea; November 28, 2007

“History of Coding Theory” at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ; April 30, 2007

“Fibonacci Plays Billiards” at MAA Pacific Northwest Region, Linfield College, Mcminnville, OR; April 14, 2007

“Hackenbush and Other Combinatorial Games” at MAA Northern California Region, West Valley College, Saratoga, CA; February 24, 2007

“Quantitative Go” at I-House, U. C. Berkeley; January 23, 2007

“Fibonacci Plays Billiards” at Berkeley Math Circle; December 19, 2006

“Overview of Combinatorial Game Theory” at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ; November 13, 2006

“Coupon Go” at 4th International Conference on Baduk, Junju, Korea; October 22, 2007

“Hackenbush and Other Combinatorial Games” at Chinese University of Hong Kong; October 19, 2006

“Fibonacci Plays Billiards”, first Richard K. Guy Lecture, U Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; September 15, 2006

“Block Coding with Noiseless Feedback”, SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, Victoria, BC, June 27, 2006

“Pre-history of Ulam's Problem”, at SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, Victoria, BC, June 25-28, 2006

“Combinatorial Game Theory” at Canadian Math Society, U Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; June 4, 2006

Gathering for Gardner VII, Atlanta, Georgia, March 16-19, 2006

“Hackenbush and Other Combinatorial Games” at IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Punta del Este, Uruguay; March 14, 2006

“History, Mathematics, and Go” at L&S Faculty Forum, U C Berkeley; February 6, 2006

“Hackenbush and Other Combinatorial Games”, Math Circle at SJSU , San Jose, CA; February 1, 2006

“More Games of No Chance” Conference at the Banff International Research Station (organized by PIMS and MSRI), June 18, 2005, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Colloquium Talk, March 24, 2005, Santa Fe Institute

Canadian Math Society Conference, Jun 13, 2004, Halifax, Nova Scotia

“The Dots and Boxes Game”, April 21, 2004 at the American Math Society, Arnold Ross Lecture, St. Louis Science Center, May Hall

MIT Combinatorics Seminar, April 14, 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Gathering for Gardner VI, March 25-28, 2004, Atlanta, Georgia