QLS Guest Seminar - Tuesday, 17 December 11:00am

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

QLS Guest Seminar - Tuesday, 17 December 11h00am

ICTP, Central Area, 2nd floor, SISSA Building, via Beirut 2

Speaker: Velimir Ilic - Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 
Mathematical Institute Belgrade, Serbia

Title: Generalized entropies in information theory and statistical 
mechanics: A brief review

Abstract:
Over the past decades there has been a plausible interest for the 
generalized entropies that go beyond Boltzmann-Gibbs one. Thus, the 
information theory community has been primarily devoted to the analysis 
of their usefulness in the contexts of source and channel coding, as 
well as on the axiomatic characterization which approves their 
usefulness as the measures of information. On the other hand, the 
statistical physics community focused its efforts into developing the 
generalized thermostatistics and its applications in non-Boltzmann-Gibbs 
distributed systems and in the systems which exhibit non-extensive behavior.

In this talk we will review some of the existing definitions of 
generalized entropies, taking into account their information-theoretic 
and thermostatistical properties. We will consider their applications in 
communication theory, combinatorial optimization problems and complex 
systems and neural networks modeling. Recent results will be reviewed 
and open questions and possible research directions will be presented.

Indico: http://indico.ictp.it/event/9256/

Everyone interested is most welcome to attend!

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Erica Sarnataro
Group Secretary
Quantitative Life Sciences
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste,  Italy
Tel. +39-040-2240623
www.ictp.it/research/qls.aspx
e-mail: qls at ictp.it