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The CCSS MasterClass is a series of lectures on a specific topic of Complexity Science given by a leading expert in the field, which is generously supported by one of our UU alumni Laurens Gaarenstroom.

MasterClass Overview

General Title: Entropy & Information: From Equilibrium to Out-Of-Equilibrium Processes

Part I on Monday April 7 (10:00-15:00 with lunch): The Boltzmann Entropy prescription, Generalized Entropic functionals, & Typicality
Part II on Tuesday April 8 (10:00-15:00 with lunch): Thermodynamic Energy-Information Uncertainty:  Information & the classical measurement problem
Part III on Thursday April 10 (10:00-13:00 with lunch): Between geometry and algorithm: From Driven Out-Of-Equilibrium to the ecology of Birth-Death processes 

Speaker Overview

is a faculty member of the Complexity Science Hub, Vienna. Additionally, he is an associate professor at the Medical ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of Vienna. After earning his PhD in theoretical physics in 1999 and postgraduate training in medical physics, he has published extensively on a wide range of topics ranging from statistical physics to robotics to medical imaging, complex systems and evolution. He has presented his research results at a number of international conferences and universities. Rudi’s current interests aim at a thorough understanding of non-equilibrium processes, their thermodynamic properties and associated phase transitions, and tipping phenomena, i.e. leaps of creative destruction in the evolution of complex non-equilibrium systems.

Part I: The Boltzmann Entropy prescription, Generalized Entropic functionals, & Typicality

Why is Boltzmann's entropy prescription more general than Gibbs’? What are generalized entropies and where do we come from? The lecture will delve into those questions and and demonstrate how generalised entropies emerge and why they can be considered to be particular representations of Boltzmann entropy, in the context of non-iid processes. The lecture will also cover how the notion of typicality controls the measure concentration phenomenon and how this relates to the coefficients of asymptotic scaling expansions and the structure of entropic equivalence classes.

Meeting Details (location: MIN 4.16)

10:00-12:00 Lecture on "The Boltzmann Entropy prescription, Generalized Entropic functionals, & Typicality"
12:00-13:00 FREE lunch for all participants (signup below)
13:00–15:00 Hands-on tutorials

To attend the lecture, please signup below before 15:00 on Thursday April 3.