AMSI / MASCOS Theme Program, "Concepts of Entropy and Their Applications"
University of Melbourne, 26 November - 11 December 2007
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
Program for Thermodynamics days - 28 November Entropy methods in PDEs
confirmed speakers: T. Ruggeri, P. Attard, I. Dartnall, Y. Du, P. Broadbridge
Program for final Thermodynamics day and PDEs - 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
Program for Statistical Mechanics days - 3 December Entropy methods in environmental data modelling
confirmed speakers: R. Kleeman, R. (Roderick) Dewar, I. Enting,
J. Frederiksen, T. O'Kane
Program for Environment Data Modelling day - 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
Program for Dynamical Systems days
Conference dinner Tuesday 4th December - 10 places set aside. Own cost at a Lygon Street restaurant.
Email parvin@amsi.org.au to book.
- 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
Program for Information Theory day - 10 December Entropy methods for operations research
confirmed speakers: R, Rubinstein, J. Filar, D. Kroese, P. Hui, Z. Botev, T. Taimre, L. Au
Program for Operations Research day - 11 December Entropy methods in signal processing
confirmed speakers: W. Moran, S. Howard, J. Kitchen, J. Sorensen, D. Gray, G. Newsam
Program for Signal Processing days
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 . 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) (see map)
What to do in Melbourne
Some ideas here.
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
or check last minute sites or other Carlton area accommodation
More information
Email Graham Keen, AMSI at
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