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Explore a 29-minute lecture on finding perfect matchings in bipartite hypergraphs, presented by Chidambaram Annamalai at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics. Delve into Haxell's condition, a hypergraph analog of Hall's condition, and its implications for perfect matchings in bipartite hypergraphs. Discover a new efficient algorithm for finding perfect matchings when a stronger version of Haxell's condition is satisfied, generalizing the classical Hungarian algorithm for bipartite graphs. Examine the potential applications of these techniques in other combinatorial problems involving hypergraphs, such as Set Packing. Follow the lecture's structure, covering introduction, definitions, hypothesis, examples, theorem statement, algorithm details, and analysis.