Graduate Student Seminar: Entropy, Speaker: Ryan Alweiss

Graduate Student Seminars
  • Ryan Alweiss
  • Entropy
Apr 16, 2019
12:30 pm
Fine Hall 214

Title:  Entropy

Abstract:  We introduce the notion of entropy of a random variable, which quantifies the about to information it will have, and talk about a few of its properties and also why it is useful, including the connection to communication over a noisy channel.  Then we will see an application of entropy to combinatorics; we will prove the Loomis-Whitney inequality.