Tuesday, January 22, 2019 2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
EST (GMT -05:00)
Title: Announcing new Reading Group this term on the topic of "Entropy and Counting"
| Speaker: | Various/TBD |
| Affiliation: | University of Waterloo |
| Room: | MC 6486 |
Abstract:
A new Reading Group will be starting this term on the topic of "Entropy and Counting". The talks will take place weekly on Tuesdays from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in MC 6486 starting on Jan 22th.We will study how the notion entropy can be used as a tool for combinatorial enumeration. In the first couple of talks, the basic properties of entropy are covered and its use is illustrated with a few examples. We then continue by reading a selection of classic and recent papers.
Organizers: Michelle Delcourt and Richard Lang