VIRTUAL & HYBRID EVENT
WORKSHOP
Discrepancy Theory and Applications
Théorie de la discrépance et applications
Part 1: 30 November (Virtual)  (2257)
Part 2: 4 - 5 February 2021 (Hybrid)  (2641)
Place: CIRM (Marseille Luminy, France)

SCHEDULE & ABSTRACTS

PARTICIPANTS

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Visit the special Virtual event webpage here

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DESCRIPTION

The scope of the workshop covers

• equidistribution
• irregularities of distribution
• discrepancies of special sequences
• hyperuniformity and dynamical systems
• metric discrepancy theory
• multivariate numerical integration and tractability
• Quasi Monte Carlo methods and applications in finance

This event will feature a series of recorded talks (virtual) complimented by a morning of live talks given by researchers present at CIRM.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

• Jozsef Beck (Rutgers University)
• William Chen (Emeritus, Macquarie University)
• Gerhard Larcher (JKU Linz)
• Andras Sarközy (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)
• Henryk Wozniakowski (Columbia University / University of Warsaw)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Manfred Madritsch (Université de Lorraine)
  
• Joël Rivat (Aix-Marseille Université)
• Robert Tichy (TU Graz / Aix-Marseille Université)

PART 1 - 30 November 2020
> Virtual format

PRE-RECORDED TALKS
Monday 30 November 2020

• Christoph Aistleitner (TU Graz)

Local and global statistics for point sequences

• Dmitriy Bilyk (University of Minnesota)

On the interplay between uniform distribution, discrepancy, and energy minimization

• William Chen (Macquarie University)

Billiard orbits and geodesics in non-integrable flat dynamical systems (part 1)
Billiard orbits and geodesics in non-integrable flat dynamical systems (part 2)

• Florian Pausinger (Queen's University Belfast)

On two different topics in discrepancy theory: From the discrepancy of stratified samples to greedy energy minimization

• Giancarlo Travaglini (Universita di Milano-Bicocca)

Pick’s theorem and Riemann sums: a Fourier analytic tale

• Alexey Ustinov (Pacific National University) and Mikhail Skopenkov (Higher School of Economics)

Feynman Checkers: Number theory methods in quantum theory

PART 2 - 4-5 February 2021
​> Hybrid format

LIVE TALKS FROM CIRM (tentative)

Thursday 4 February 2021
(AM): Live talks

Manfred Madritsch 
​(Université de Lorraine)
Normal and Non-Normal Numbers
​(abstract)

Robert Tichy (TU Graz / Aix-Marseille University)
Metric Discrepancy Theory
​(abstract)

RECORDED AND LIVE TALKS FROM TU GRAZ & JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ

Thursday 4 February 2021
(AM): Pre-recorded talks

• Ujué Etayo (TU Graz)
  Discrepancy of points coming from Determinantal point processes (abstract)
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• Bence Borda (TU Graz) 
  Equidistribution on compact groups (abstract)

Thursday 4 February 2021
​(PM): Live talk at 16:00

Michael Lacey (Georgia Tech)
​Title: tba

Friday 5 February 2021
(AM): Short live-streamed talks

• Aicke Hinrichs (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
• Roswitha Hofer (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
• Peter Kritzer (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
• Friedrich Pillichshammer (Johannes Kepler University Linz)

​Friday 5 February 2021
​(PM): Discussion session

Friday 5 February 2021
(PM): Live talk at 16:00

Ben Green (University of Oxford)
​Title: tba

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