The Second Law Is a Fraud, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Irreversibility

Alessandro Ricottone

1:00, Friday, Oct. 26
BURN 1025



What is the role of information in physics? Would you get more information by reading Michele's PhD thesis or one of Borges's imaginary books? I will discuss the relation between entropy and information, giving increasingly simpler definitions of entropy and using cellular automata as illustrative examples. I will also draw two triangles and the sun.

All graduate students are invited. As with all talks in the graduate student seminar, this talk will be accessible to all graduate students in math and stats.

This seminar was made possible by funding from the McGill mathematics and statistics department and PGSS.

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