8803-Information and Entropy (Fall 2015)
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- August 18-20:
What is Information?
- August 25-27:
The Tools for Information Theory
- September 1-3:
Equilibrium Thermodynamics
- September 8-10:
Thermodynamics Out of Equilibrium
- September 15-17:
Markov Processes, Random Walks
- September 22-24:
A case study "Bulk Metallic Glasses"
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Report: submit your proposal
on Thursday September 24, 2015
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Sept. 29-Oct. 1st:
Bulk Metallic Glasses
- October 6-8:
Guest Speakers, Evangelos Theodorou (School of Aerospace Engineering)
Nonlinear Stochastic Control and Information Theoretic Dualities
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October 15:
(October 13: Fall Recess)
Producing Information, Entropy Production:
Steam Machines, Loom & Weaving
Food Chain: from the cell to the solar UV, the Role of Gravitation
- October 20-22:
Molecular Engine, Ratchet Model
Mathematics, Logic, Gödel's Theorem.
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October 27-29:
Science Methods an Mathematics.
Computation, Türing Machines
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Progress Report: Thursday October 29, 2015
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- November 3-5:
Algorithms, Algorithmic Complexity, Universal Probability
- November 10-12:
The Brain according to Nicolelis
- November 17-19:
Information and Social Science, Bureaucracy, the Capitalist Machine
- November 24:
(November 26: Thanksgiving)
Guest Speaker: Prof. J. Curtis (School of Physics, GT)
"Microbes on the mind: Could the gut microbiome have a critical role in brain and behavior?"
- December 1-3:
Quantum Information and Gravitation
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Report Submission: Friday December 4, 2015
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Final Exam:
Tuesday December 8th, 2015,
2:50am-5:40pm Howey S204
Notice :
If the number of students permits, the Final Exam will only be an oral presentation of the report
If the number of students taking the final exam is too large, there will be no Final Exam other
than the written report.