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.
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
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
SPEAKERS
Local and global statistics for point sequences​ - VIDEO ​On the interplay between uniform distribution, discrepancy, and energy  - VIDEO 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 ​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
​Greedy energy minimization and the van der Corput sequence - VIDEO Feynman Checkers: Number theory methods in quantum theory - VIDEO Pick’s theorem and Riemann sums: a Fourier analytic tale - VIDEO