Mini-Symposium: Entropy Methods in Information Theory
Thursday 6 December 2007
Program
Each talk will include 5 to 10 minutes of question and discussion time, at the speaker's discretion.
| 8:45 - 9:15 | Registration |
| 9:15 - 10:10 | Keynote: Andrew Doherty (Queensland) Quantum information theory: a beginner's guide |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Michael Borgas and Alex Skvortsov (CSIRO) Information theory for pheromone plumes |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Morning Tea |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Uwe Grimm (Open University) Entropy and letter frequencies of square-free words |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Iain Collings (CSIRO) Results from finite dimensional analysis of linear receivers in MIMO communication systems |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Alex Grant (South Australia) Basic entropy sets |
| 12:30 - 1:45 | Lunch |
| 1:45 - 2:40 | Keynote: Michael Baake (Bielefeld) Point sets with long-range order: diffraction versus entropy |
| 2:40 - 3:10 | Terrence Chan (South Australia) Shannon entropies, information inequalities and applications |
| 3:10 - 3:40 | Jamie Evans (Melbourne) Multiple antennas, transmit beamforming and large random matrices |
| 3:40 - 4:00 | Afternoon tea |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Sibi Pillai (Melbourne) Relaying and broadcasting |
| POSTER |
Keynote speakers
ANDREW DOHERTY is a theoretical physicist who worked in quantum optics as a Ph.D student at The University of Auckland (1996-2000) and as a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology (2000-2003). His research interests include cavity quantum electrodynamics, the quantum limits on feedback control systems and quantum information theory. He joined the School of Physical Sciences at the University of Queensland in 2003 where he is now Senior Lecturer.
MICHAEL BAAKE has a chair in Mathematics at Bielefeld University (since 2004). He studied Mathematics and Physics in Bonn (including PhD), did his habilitation in Tuebingen, and held a chair of geometry, mathematical biology and mathematical physics at the University of Greifswald, prior to his appointment in Bielefeld.
Michael's main interest is the theory of aperiodic order, with special emphasis on the interplay of various mathematical disciplines in this field, such as discrete geometry, harmonic analysis, dynamical systems, algebra and number theory.
Organising committee
Prof. Philip Broadbridge, AMSI
Prof. Tony Guttmann, MASCOS
Assoc. Prof. Stephen Hanly, University of Melbourne
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