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

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SCHEDULE & ABSTRACTS

PARTICIPANTS

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)

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 

• 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 
• 14:30 CET - Bence Borda (TU Graz) 
  Equidistribution on compact groups (abstract)
  VIDEO link

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)
  

• 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

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)
  

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