Zakharov Lectureship 2022: Physical Nature of Information – How to receive, send and forget information, Lecture 3

Gregory Falkovich, Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science

When

4 – 6 p.m., Feb. 14, 2022

Where

ENR2, S395 Zoom password: math

Abstract: Communication theory. Mutual Information as a universal measure of correlation. Channel capacity and noisy channel theorem. Hypothesis testing and relative entropy. How to measure consciousness? Second law of thermodynamics made trivial. Distribution from information.