Distributing many points on spheres

Speaker

Professor Peter Grabner

Affiliation

Graz University of Technology

Date

Wed, 20/06/2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Venue

RC-4082, Kensington Campus, UNSW

Abstract

The question of how to evenly distribute many points on a sphere arises naturally in the context of numerical analysis on spherical domains. Surprisingly, it is not even simple to define "evenly". We give an overview about several different measures of evenness of point distributions on spheres and the comparison between them.

Comment

Professor Peter Grabner is supported by the 2012 Faculty of Science Visiting Research Fellowship.