SCGP guest, Dr. Greg Falkovich from the Weizmann Institute of Science, will present a three part lecture series, both in person and virtual.
To participate virtually:
Thursday, September 16th, 2021
11AM- 12PM – SCGP Lecture Hall – Room 102
Lecture 1:
Thermodynamic and statistical entropy. Asymptotic equipartition. Information as a choice. Entropy as the rate of information transfer. Two greatest code inventions: alphabet and positional numeral system. Entropy of the language and the genetic code.
Tuesday, September 21st, 2021
11AM- 12PM – SCGP Lecture Hall – Room 102
Lecture 2:
Mutual Information. Hypothesis testing and relative entropy. Second of law of thermodynamics made trivial. Distribution from information. Exorcising Maxwell demon and Landauer principle.
Tuesday, September 28th, 2021
11AM- 12PM – SCGP Lecture Hall – Room 102
Lecture 3:
Flies and spies. Information is money and life: proportional gambling and phenotype switching. Learning by forgetting – renormalization group. Quantum information: uncertainty principle in the entropic form, entanglement entropy. Black-hole entropy and the Bekenstein bound. Informational nature of physics.
Special note: the lecture notes for the whole semester-length course can be found here: https://www.weizmann.ac.il/complex/falkovich/sites/complex.falkovich/files/uploads/PNI21.pdf