SoCalDM is a friendly, day-long research conference designed for discrete mathematicians in Southern California. For more details please visit the conference website:

https://sites.google.com/view/socaldm2025/home

Here is the schedule for the event: 

9:00-9:30 Welcome coffee

9:30-10:00 Jonathan Davidson (Cal State LA), A Combinatorial Design Approach to a Multicolor Bipartite Ramsey Problem

10:10-10:40 Lenny Fukshansky (Claremont McKenna College), On a new absolute version of Siegel’s lemma

10:40-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:30 Mason Shurman (UCI), Covering Random Digraphs with Hamilton Cycles

11:40-12:10 Claire Levaillant (USC), Solutions to the Diophantine equation $\sum_{i=1}^n\frac{1}{x_i}=1$ in integers of the form p^a*q^b with p and q two distinct primes. 

12:10-2:00 Lunch

2:00-2:30 Sehun Jeong (Claremont Graduate University), Integral quadratic forms and lattice angles

2:40-3:10 Justin Troyka (Cal State LA), Growth rates of permutations with given descent or peak set

3:20-3:50 Yizhe Zhu (USC), CLTs for linear spectral statistics of inhomogeneous random graphs