Tuesday, January 22, 2019 2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
EST (GMT -05:00)
Title: Introduction to Entropy and Counting
| Speaker: | Richard Lang |
| Affiliation: | University of Waterloo |
| Room: | MC 6486 |
Abstract: In the first talk of our reading group, we introduce the notion of entropy and derive some of its basic properties. When then go through a few examples that illustrate how entropy can be used to count combinatorial objects.