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

SCHEDULE & ABSTRACTS

PARTICIPANTS

TO SEE PART 1 (November 2020)

REGISTER

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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

 Due to Covid-19, this workshop will be held over two different periods.

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)

THURSDAY 4 FEBRUARY 2021

LIVE TALKS AT CIRM LUMINY

• 10:15 CET - Manfred Madritsch (Université de Lorraine)
  Normal and Non-Normal Numbers - (abstract)
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• 11:15 CET - Robert Tichy (TU Graz / Aix-Marseille University)
  Metric Discrepancy Theory - ​(abstract)

PRE-RECORDED TALKS 

• 13.30 CET - Florian Pausinger (University of Belfast)
  Applications of equidistribution theory in computational geometry​ (abstract)
  VIDEO link
• 14:00 CET - Ujué Etayo (TU Graz)
  Discrepancy of points coming from Determinantal point processes (abstract)
  VIDEO link 
• 15:00 CET - Bence Borda (TU Graz) 
  Equidistribution on compact groups (abstract)
  VIDEO link

LIVE-STREAMED TALK

• 16:00 CET - Michael Lacey (Georgia Tech)
  Title: tba

(organized by TU Graz and Johannes Kepler University Linz)

FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2021

LIVE-STREAMED TALKS FROM TU GRAZ & JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ

• 09:00 - 09:30 CET - Peter Kritzer (RICAM & Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  The digit-by-digit construction of polynomial lattice rules - (abstract)

• 09:40 - 10:10 CET - Friedrich Pillichshammer (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
  ​L2 star, extreme and periodic discrepancy - (abstract)

• 10:15 - 11:00 CET - DISCUSSION SESSION 1

Join the discussion room here

• 11:00 - 11:30 CET - Aicke Hinrichs (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
  Dispersion - a survey of recent results and applications - (abstract)

• 11:40 - 12:10 CET - Roswitha Hofer (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
  One way of generalizing the van der Corput sequence as well as the (nα)-sequence and some nice encounters - (abstracts)
• 12:30 - BREAK

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• 15:00 - 15:45 CET - DISCUSSION SESSION 2

Join the Discussion Room here

• 16:00  CET - Ben Green (University of Oxford)
  ​Title: tba

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