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Robert TICHY & Joël RIVAT

Diophantine Problems: Determinism, Randomness, Applications

Problèmes diophantiens: Déterminisme, Aléatoire, Applications

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2020 - semester 2
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Due to Covid-19, this workshop could not take place in residence at CIRM, as originally intended.
WORKSHOP
Discrepancy Theory and Applications - Part 1
Théorie de la discrépance et applications - 1ere partie

Dates: 30 November - 1 December 2020
​NB: Part 2 of this workshop will take place on 4 and 5 February 2021.
SEE THE VIRTUAL WORKSHOP PAGE HERE
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SCHEDULE & ABSTRACTS
PARTICIPANTS
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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
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)
SPEAKERS
  • Christoph Aistleitner (TU Graz) 
Local and global statistics for point sequences​ - VIDEO
  • Dmitriy Bilyk (University of Minnesota)
​On the interplay between uniform distribution, discrepancy, and energy  - VIDEO
  • William Chen (Macquarie University) 
Billiard orbits and geodesics in non-integrable flat dynamical systems (part 1) - VIDEO
Billiard orbits and geodesics in non-integrable flat dynamical systems (part 2) - VIDEO
  • Florian Pausinger (Queen's University Belfast)
​On two different topics in discrepancy theory: From the discrepancy of stratified samples to greedy energy minimization - VIDEO
​Discrepancy of stratified samples from partitions of the unit cube - VIDEO
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Greedy energy minimization and the van der Corput sequence - VIDEO
  • ​Mikhail Skopenkov (Higher School of Economics) & Alexey Ustinov (Pacific National University)
Feynman Checkers: Number theory methods in quantum theory - VIDEO
  • ​Giancarlo Travaglini (Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca)
Pick’s theorem and Riemann sums: a Fourier analytic tale - VIDEO

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