Workshop 1 – Discrepancy theory and quasi-Monte Carlo methods
September 25 – 29, 2017
- Monday, September 25, 2017
09:00 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:30 Vladimir Temlyakov
Universal discretization
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee / Tea Break
11:00 – 11:30 Benjamin Doerr
A Sharp Discrepancy Bound for Jittered Sampling
11:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:30 Daniel Rudolf
An Upper Bound of the Minimal Dispersion via Delta covers
14:30 – 15:00 Takashi Goda
Richardson extrapolation of polynomial lattice rules for smooth functions
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:00 Oliver Roche-Newton
New bounds for the cardinality of the set AA+A
- Tuesday, September 26, 2017
10:00 – 10:30 Mordechey Levin
On Lp low discrepancy sequences
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee / Tea Break
11:00 – 11:30 Ralph Kritzinger
Point Sets and sequences with the optimal order of Lp-discrepancy
11:30 – 12:00 Stefan Steinerberger
One Gaussian to rule them all: pair correlation, irregularities of distribution and quadratures
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:30 Mike Giles
QMC and thinning for empirical datasets
14:30 – 15:00 Martin Ehler
Quasi-Monte Carlo methods and importance sampling on the Grassmannian
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:00 Friedrich Pillichshammer
Tractability properties of the weighted star discrepancy of regular grids
- Wednesday, September 27, 2017
10:00 – 10:30 Dmitriy Bilyk
On some problems of uniform distribution and energy minimization on the sphere
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee / Tea Break
11:00 – 11:30 Ryan Matzke
Stolarsky principle and the geodesic distance energy on the sphere
11:30 – 12:00 Johann Brauchart
Hyperuniformity on the sphere: deterministic constructions
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 16:00 Informal Discussions
- Thursday, September 28, 2017
10:00 – 10:30 Maxim Skriganov
Point distributions in two-point homogeneous spaces
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee / Tea Break
11:00 – 11:30 Bence Borda
The discrepancy of random walks
11:30 – 12:00 Markus Passenbrunner
A spline version of the Martingale Convergence Theorem
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:30 Arne Winterhof
Measures of Pseudorandomness: A partial hierarchy
14:30 – 15:00 Radhakrishnan Nair
Unique Ergodicity and two rotations
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:00 Gunther Leobacher
On the length of arcs in labyrinth fractals
- Friday, September 29, 2017
10:00 – 12:00 Informal Discussions
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee / Tea Break
All talks take place at ESI, Boltzmann Lecture Hall!
