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SCHEDULE & ABSTRACTS

PARTICIPANTS

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Due to the Covid-19, this workshop could not take place in residence at CIRM, as originally intended.

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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
  

NB: Part 2 of this workshop will take place on 4 and 5 February 2021 as a hybrid event.

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)

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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)

​Part 1: On two different topics in discrepancy theory: From the discrepancy of stratified samples to greedy energy minimization - VIDEO
​Part 2: Discrepancy of stratified samples from partitions of the unit cube - VIDEO
Part 3: 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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