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Colloquium

Mathematics Colloquium

Date:
Time:
4:00 pm – 4:50 pm
Avery Hall Room: 115
1144 T St
 Lincoln NE 68508
Additional Info: AVH
Contact:
Steve Cohn, (402) 472-7223, scohn1@math.unl.edu
Speaker: Jamie Radcliffe
Affiliation: UNL
Local Host: Richard Rebarber
Title: Surprising uses for surprisals: entropy methods in combinatorics

Additional Public Info:

Abstract: I will talk about some beautiful recent results, by a variety of people, in which hard combinatorial problems have been attacked using the probabilistic notion of <b>entropy</b>. I’ll start from the beginning and discuss the way in which the notion of entropy has been generalized from its thermodynamic roots, and extended to many mathematical situations. I’ll discuss a number of ways in which entropy has allowed people to prove counting results by serving as a form of “generalized counting”, or as a form of “generalized accounting”.

Refreshments will be served in 348 Avery 3:30-4pm. The talk is free
and open to the public.

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