International Conference on Uniform Distribution, Marseilles, CIRM, January 21-25, 2008 (Q2879384)

This is the Preface to the Proceedings of the first International Conference on Uniform Distribution held on January 21--25, 2008, at CIRM, Marseilles, France. Organizers were V. Baláž (Bratislava) and P. Liardet (Marseille).NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{List of lectures and contributions} contains 42 articles and \textit{Address of participants} -- 70 items. Conference themes include: Pseudorandom numbers, inverse generators, quasi-Monte Carlo integration, discrepancy, weighted \(b\)-adic diaphony, \(n_k\alpha \)-sequences, binary sequences, digital sequences, van der Corput sequences, Halton sequences, Niederreiter-Halton sequences, Hammersley permuted sequences, ratio sequences, linear recurring sequences, Fibonacci sequences, Sturmian sequences, Benford's law, Pisot numbers, Salem numbers, \(\beta \)-expansion, Khintchine-Lévy theorem, Gauss-Kuzmin theorem, \(\alpha \)-densities, weighted uniform densities, density of primes, cyclic codes, cryptography.