Thursday, September 13, 2018 3:30 pm
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3:30 pm
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Title: Entropy and enumeration
Speaker: | Jorn van der Pol |
Affiliation: | University of Waterloo |
Room: | MC 5417 |
Abstract: The information-theoretic concept of entropy is closely related to enumeration; there are many situations in which entropy can be used to obtain surprisingly short and strong bounds on cardinalities of sets. In this talk, I will discuss some of the properties of entropy as well as a number of applications.