Due to Covid-19, this workshop had to change format and was organized as a hybrid event
HYBRID EVENT
WORKSHOP (2641)
Discrepancy Theory and Applications – Part 2
Théorie de la discrépance et applications – 2e partie
4 – 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
THURSDAY 4 FEBRUARY 2021
LIVE TALKS AT CIRM LUMINY
10:15 CET – Manfred Madritsch (Université de Lorraine)
Normal and Non-Normal Numbers – (abstract)
11:15 CET – Robert Tichy (TU Graz / Aix-Marseille Univ.
​Metric Discrepancy Theory – ​(abstract)

PRE-RECORDED TALKS 

15:15 – 15:45 CET – Discussion session
Speakers present online: Robert Tichy, Manfred Madritsch, Ujué Etayo

ONLINE TALKS SERIES 
Special Research Area (SFB) F55 on Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods: Theory and Applications
Further details, titles and abstracts available at: http://www.sfb-qmc.jku.at/sfb-activities/workshops
  • 16:00 – 16:45 CET – Michael Lacey (Georgia Tech)
    Discrete Improving Inequalities (abstract)
  • 17:00 – 17:45 CET – ​Michael Lacey (Georgia Tech)
    A Polynomial Roth Theorem for Corners in the Finite Field Setting (abstract)

FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2021
LIVE-STREAMED TALKS FROM TU GRAZ & JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ
​The talk series is supported by the FWF Special Research Program (SFB) Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods: Theory and Applications and partly funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, Project No. J 4138-N32.
  • 09:00 – 09:30 CET – Peter Kritzer (RICAM & Austrian Academy of Sciences)
    The digit-by-digit construction of polynomial lattice rules – (abstract)

10:15 – 11:00 CET – DISCUSSION SESSION 1
Speakers present online: Robert Tichy, Bence Borda, Aicke Hinrichs, Peter Kritzer, Florian Pausinger, Friedrich Pillichshammer, William Chen, Manfred Madritsch.

  • 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 – (abstract)
  • 12:30 – BREAK

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15:00 – 15:45 CET – DISCUSSION SESSION 2
Speakers present online: Robert Tichy, Bence Borda, Michael Lacey, Dmitriy Bilyk, Roswitha Hofer, Manfred Madritsch.

​SPECIAL ONLINE TALKS SERIES 
Special Research Area (SFB) F55 on Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods: Theory and Applications
Further details, titles and abstracts available at: http://www.sfb-qmc.jku.at/sfb-activities/workshops

  • 16:00  CET – Ben Green (University of Oxford)
    ​Title: On the divisors of a typical integer (abstract)