The detailed program of the 'Entropy 2018: From Physics to Information Sciences and Geometry' conference in Barcelona is now available, please see below. Moreover, you can also download the Entropy 2018 Conference Book (last update 17 May 2018).
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Monday 14 May 2018 |
Tuesday 15 May 2018 |
Wednesday 16 May 2018 |
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Morning |
Check-in Program Overview and Introduction Chairs: Ali Mohammad-Djafari and Miguel Rubi S1. Physics: classical Thermodynamics and Quantum |
S3. Geometrical science of information, topology and metrics |
S5. Kullback and Bayes or information theory and Bayesian inference |
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Coffee Break |
Coffee Break |
Coffee Break |
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S1. Physics: classical Thermodynamics and Quantum |
S3. Geometrical science of information, topology and metrics |
S6. Entropy in action (applications) |
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Lunch |
Lunch / |
Lunch |
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Afternoon |
S2. Statistical physics and Bayesian computation |
S4. Maximum entropy principle and inference |
S6. Entropy in action (applications) |
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Coffee Break |
Coffee Break |
Coffee Break |
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Special Session |
S4. Maximum entropy principle and inference |
S6. Entropy in action (applications) |
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Conference Dinner |
Closing Remarks & |
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Session Start
Monday 14 May 2018: 08:00 - 12:45 / 14:15 - 18:00
Tuesday 15 May 2018: 08:30 - 12:30 / 14:00 - 18:00 / Conference Dinner: 20:30
Wednesday 16 May 2018: 08:30 - 12:15 / 13:45 - 18:00
Detailed Program
Day 1: Monday 14 May 2018
08:00 Registration Desk Open (Check-in)
08:45 – 09:00 Opening Ceremony – Chairs: Ali Mohammad-Djafari and Miguel Rubi
Session 1. Physics: Classical Thermodynamics and Quantum
Part a.
Chairs: Ariel Caticha & Dick Bedeaux
09:00 – 09:30 Dick Bedeaux “Non-Isothermal Transport of Immiscible Fluids in a Porous Material: Surface and Line Contributions to Driving Forces”
09:30 – 09:45 Mark Masthay “Eigenstate–Specific Temperatures in Two–Level Systems: Potential Applications to Nanothermometry and the Negative Temperature Debate”
09:45 – 10:00 José Ortiz De Zarate “Casimir Effects on Giant Fluctuations”
10:00 – 10:15 Eugenio Vogel “Thermodynamics of Magnetism for Particles with Small Number of Elements”
10:15 – 10:30 Andrés Santos “Residual Multiparticle Entropy for a Fractal Fluid of Hard Spheres”
10:30 – 11:15 Coffee Break & Poster Session (S1, S2 & S3)
Chair: Miguel Rubi
Session 1. Part b. Physics: Information and Quantum Geometry
Chairs: Dick Bedeaux & Ariel Caticha
11:15 – 11:45 Ariel Caticha “From Information Geometry to Quantum Geometry”
11:45 – 12:00 Liliana Luca “Comparing Linear and Nonlinear Hydrodynamical Models for Charge Transport in Graphene Based on the Maximum Entropy Principle”
12:00 – 12:15 Ralf Eichhorn “Active Forcing as a Non-Equilibrium Environment for Brownian Motion: Fluctuation Theorem and Mutual Information”
12:15 – 12:30 Rodrigo de Miguel “Temperature-Dependent Spectra and the Thermodynamics of Small Systems”
12:30 – 12:45 Nicolai Friis “Gaussian Operations for Work Extraction and Storage” - Entropy 2018 Young Investigator Award Winner
12:45 – 14:15 Lunch
Session 2: Statistical Physics and Bayesian Computation
Chairs: Ercan Kuruoglu & Jean-Christophe Pesquet
14:15 – 14:45 David Wolpert “Fundamental Limits on the Thermodynamics of Circuits”
14:45 – 15:00 Karl Heinz Hoffmann “The Entropy Production Paradox for Fractional Diffusion”
15:00 – 15:15 Sergio Davis “Emergence of Tsallis Statistics as a Consequence of Invariance”
15:15 – 15:30 Natalya Denisova “Bayesian Approach with Local Regularization for Solving Reconstruction Problems“
15:30 – 15:45 Ricardo T Páez-Hernández “The Entropy of a Classical Ideal Gas Whose Distribution Speed Law Is a Stretched Exponential Function”
15:45 – 16:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session (S1, S2 & S3)
Chair: Kevin Knuth
Special session: Fourier 250th Birthday: Geometric Theory of Thermodynamics
Chairs: Frédéric Barbaresco & Ali Mohammad-Djafari
16:30 – 16:45 François Gay-Balmaz “A Variational Formulation for the Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Open Systems”
16:45 – 17:00 Hiroaki Yoshimura “Dirac Structures, Interconnections, and Variational Formulations in Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics”
17:00 – 17:15 José Isidro “On the Contact Geometry and the Poisson Geometry of the Ideal Gas”
17:15 – 17:30 Luisberis Velazquez Abad “Riemannian Geometry of Fluctuation Theory: A Counterpart Approach of Information Geometry”
17:30 – 18:00 Frédéric Barbaresco “Geometric Theory of Information and Heat Based on Souriau Lie Groups Thermodynamics for Machine Learning”
Day 2: Tuesday 15 May 2018
Session 3: Geometrical Science of Information, Topology and Metrics
Part a. Entropy, Information Geometry and Quantum States
Chairs: Jun Zhang & Pierre Baudot
08:30 – 09:00 Ali Tahzibi “Hyperbolicity of High Entropy Measures”
09:00 – 09:30 Nina Amini “Non-Linear Filtering and Entropy Production”
09:30 – 09:45 Jan Naudts “Challenges in Non-Commutative Information Geometry”
09:45 – 10:00 Petr Jizba “Information Scan of Quantum States Based on Entropy-Power Uncertainty Relations”
10:00 – 10:15 Eun-jin Kim “Information Geometry in Classical and Quantum Systems”
10:15 – 10:30 Rainer Hollerbach “Far-From-Equilibrium Time Evolution between Two Gamma Distributions”
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session (S1, S2 & S3)
Chairs: David Wolpert
Session 3.
Part b. Entropy, Information Geometry, Topology and Metrics
Chairs: Ali Tahzibi & Nina Amini
11:00 – 11:30 Pierre Baudot “Topological Information Data Analysis: Statistical Physic of Complex Systems, Application to Genetic Landscapes”
11:30 – 12:00 Stefano Mancini “Hamilton-Jacobi Approach to Potential Functions in Information Geometry”
12:00 – 12:15 Michel Nguiffo Boyom “Jean-Louis Koszul and the Hessian Information Geometry”
12:15 – 12:30 Hiroshi Matsuzoe “Sequential Structures of Statistical Manifolds”
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch*
*13:20 – 13:50 Meet the Editors - Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Entropy
Session 4: Maximum Entropy Principle and Inference
Part a.
Chairs: Ali Mohammad-Djafari & Jean-François Bercher
14:00 – 14:30 Adom Giffin “Maximum Relative Entropy Parameter Estimation for a Dynamical System with Macroscopic and Microscopic Information Constraints”
14:30 – 15:00 Robert Niven “Maximum Entropy Analysis of Electrical, Water and Transport Networks”
15:00 – 15:15 Jun Zhang “Information Geometry Under Monotone Embedding”
15:15 – 15:30 William Bruce Sherwin “Entropy Unifies Ecology and Evolution”
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session (S4, S5 & S6)
Chair: Stefano Mancini
Session 4.
Part b. Entropy, Information, Topology and Metrics
Chairs: Adom Giffin & Robert Niven
16:00 – 16:30 Jean-François Bercher “Properties and Inequalities for φ-entropies Derived from Inverse MaxEnt Problems”
16:30 – 17:00 Kevin Knuth “Entropy and Relevance among Questions”
17:00 – 17:30 Ercan Kuruoglu “In Search of the Optimal Genetic Code: ‘What does the Information Theory have to say about Evolution?”
17:30 – 17:45 Jan Korbel “Consistency of Maximum Entropy Principle for Generalized Entropies”
17:45 – 18:00 Stephan Weis “A New Signature of Quantum Phase Transitions from the Numerical Range”
18:00 Conference Group Photograph
20:30 Conference Dinner
Day 3: Wednesday 16 May 2018
Session 5: Kullback and Bayes or Information Theory and Bayesian Inference
Chairs: Stefano Mancini & Pierre Baudot
08:30 – 09:00 Jean-Christophe Pesquet “Optimizing with Divergences”
09:00 – 09:15 Peishi Jiang “Interactions of Information Transfer Along Separable Causal Paths”
09:15 – 09:30 Badr Albanna “How Much Information Is Shared by Three Variables? Principled Generalizations of the Mutual Information to Three or More Variables”
09:30 – 09:45 Frank Lad “The Duality of Extropy/Entropy, and the Completion of the Kullback Information Complex”
09:45 – 10:00 Jakob Knollmüller “Separating Diffuse from Point-Like Sources - a Bayesian Approach”
10:00 – 10:45 Coffee Break & Poster Session (S4, S5 & S6)
Chair: Ercan Kuruoglu
Session 6: Entropy in Action (Applications)
Part a.
Chair: Ali Mohammad-Djafari
10:45 – 11:15 Jose M. G. Vilar “Biophysical and Biomedical Applications of the Gibbs Entropy Postulate”
11:15 – 11:45 Olivier Rioul “On Minimum Entropy and Gaussian Transport”
11:45 – 12:00 Allison Goodwell “Temporal Information Partitioning Networks reveal ecohydrologic responses to rainfall pulses and drought”
12:00 – 12:15 Gordon Morison “Multiscale Weighted Permutation Entropy Analysis of the EEG in Early Stage Alzheimer Patients”
12:15 – 13:45 Lunch
Session 6. Part b.
Chairs: Ali Mohammad-Djafari & Paul Baggenstoss
13:45 – 14:15 David Reguera “Particle Manipulation and Sorting by Entropy”
14:15 – 14:45 Mohammad Modarres “Entropy as Indicator of Damage in Engineering Materials”
14:45 – 15:00 Marios Valavanides “Estimation of the Number Density of Configurational Microstates in Steady-State Two-Phase Flows in Model Porous Media”
15:00 – 15:15 Ishay Wohl “Fluctuation of Information Entropy Measures in Cell Image”
15:15 – 16:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session (S4, S5 & S6)
Chair: Jose M. G. Vilar
Session 6. Part c.
Chairs: David Reguera & Mohammad Modarres
16:00 – 16:30 Paul Baggenstoss “Maximum Entropy PDF Projection: Applications in Machine Learning”
16:30 – 16:45 Carlos Granero-Belinchon “A Kullback-Leibler Divergence Measure of Intermittency: Application to Turbulence”
16:45 – 17:00 Karsten Keller “Change-Point Detection Using the Conditional Entropy of Ordinalpatterns”
17:00 – 17:15 Simon Schultz “Dynamical Entropy Measures to Diagnose Deficits in Mouse Spatial Exploration Behaviour"
17:15 – 17:30 Martin Goethe “Prediction of Protein Configurational Entropy (Popcoen)”
17:30 – 17:45 Alain Le Bot “Entropy in Statistical Sound and Vibration: From Macroscopic to Super-Macroscopic World”
17:45 – 18:00 Closing Remarks and Awards Ceremony