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AMSI / MASCOS Theme Program, "Concepts Of Entropy And Their Applications"

Overview

Various concepts of entropy have been used in the formulation of fundamental dynamical principles. Such ideas originated from thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. These originating topics will appear in the theme program but cross-fertilization with other disciplines will be equally important. In various guises, entropy concepts have proven to be useful in ergodic theory of dynamical systems, information theory, computational complexity, data inversion and image reconstruction (e.g. maximum entropy methods), forecasting, numerical optimisation (e.g. simulated annealing) and qualitative theory of PDEs (e.g. irreversibility, stability and unique selection of shock solutions of nonlinear evolution equations).

Program & Speakers

The 2007 AMSI-MASCOS Lecturer, Emeritus Professor Ingo Müller of Technical University Berlin, will be a participant of the program. Prof. Müller is a renowned expert in non-equilibrium thermodynamics and irreversible behaviour of fluids and solids, including modern intelligent materials such as shape memory alloys.

The program will be broadly allocated as follows:

26-28 November Thermodynamics

Confirmed speakers:

F. den Hollander,
I. Müller,
D.Bernhardt,
G. Morriss,
D.W. Robinson,
R. (Bob) Dewar,
J. Dartnall,
N. Liu,
A.L. Fradkov

28 November Entropy methods in PDEs

Confirmed speakers:

T. Ruggeri,
P. Attard,
I. Dartnall,
Y. Du, P. Broadbridge

29-30 November Entropy methods in statistical mechanics

Confirmed speakers:

A. Guttmann,
I. Snook,
D. Evans,
P. Daivis,
B. van Megen,
R.Parviainen,
S. Williams,
S. Russo,
S. Goradia,
F. den Hollander,
J. Jensen,
N. Clisby,
J.Krawczyk

3 December Entropy methods in environmental data modelling

Confirmed speakers:

R. Kleeman,
R. (Roderick) Dewar,
I. Enting,
J. Frederiksen,
T. O'Kane

4-5 December Entropy methods in dynamical systems

Confirmed speakers:

G. Froyland,
A. Dooley,
V. Golodets,
B. Weiss,
R. Murray,
A. Quas,
R. Hill,
G. Nair

Conference dinner Tuesday 4th December - 10 places set aside.
Own cost at a Lygon Street restaurant.

6 December Entropy methods in information theory and applications (eg genomics)

Confirmed speakers:

A. Doherty,
M. Baake,
U. Grimm,
M. Borgas,
A. Skvortsov,
S.R. Pillai,
J. Evans,
T. Chan,
I. Collings,
A. Grant,
G. Shen

10 December Entropy methods for operations research

Confirmed speakers:

R, Rubinstein,
J. Filar,
D. Kroese,
P. Hui,
Z. Botev,
T. Taimre,
L. Au

11 December Entropy methods in signal processing

Confirmed speakers:

W. Moran,
S. Howard,
J. Kitchen,
J. Sorensen,
D. Gray,
G. Newsam

Contributed talks and/or posters

Short talks are invited under these headings. Time allocated will be 25 minutes with 5 minutes for discussion. Abstracts for contributed talks may be submitted by email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Abstracts should be in Word, text or latex format and no more than 300 words. The Organising Committee will make the final choice of presentations.

Organising committee

Prof. Philip Broadbridge, AMSI
Prof. Tony Guttmann, MASCOS

Venue

AMSI precinct: ICT Building, University of Melbourne. 111 Barry Street, Carlton. Lecture Theatre 2 (ground floor)

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Suggested accommodation

Citigate Hotel, Flinders Street, City (tram ride to University)
IBIS Hotel, Therry Street, City (5 minute walk to University) - ask for University rate

Student accommodation at University of Melbourne colleges

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