Zakharov Lectureship 2022: Physical Nature of Information – How to receive, send and forget information, Lecture 5

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

When

4 – 6 p.m., Feb. 28, 2022

Where

ENR2, S395 Zoom password: math

Abstract: Rate distortion theory and information bottleneck. Information is money and life: proportional gambling and phenotype switching. Stochastic Web surfing and Google’s PageRank. Fluctuation theorems and modern forms of the second law of thermodynamics. Take-home lessons.