Convidamos a todos para participar da palestra do Professor Visitante Olivier Rioul, que acontecerá no dia 17/03/2020, às 16h30, na PA03.
Título: This is IT: A Primer of Shannon's Entropy and Information
Palestrante: Olivier Rioul
Abstract:
What is Shannon’s information theory (IT)? Despite its continued impact on our digital society, Claude Shannon’s life and work is still unknown to numerous people. In this tutorial, we review many aspects of the concept of entropy and information from a historical and
mathematical point of view. The presentation is structured into small, mostly independent sections, each covering a particular topic. If time permits, we culminate with a simple exposition of a recent proof (2017) of the entropy power inequality (EPI), one of the most fascinating inequality in the theory.
Reference paper:
https://perso.telecom-paris.fr/rioul/publis/201811rioul.pdf
Bio:
Olivier Rioul (PhD, HDR) is full professor at Telecom ParisTech and Ecole Polytechnique, France. His research interests are in applied mathematics and include various, sometimes unconventional, applications of information theory such as inequalities in statistics, hardware
security, and experimental psychology. He has been teaching information theory at various French universities for almost twenty years and has published a textbook which has become a classical French reference in the field, recently translated in Portuguese at Editora Unicamp.
Web page:
https://perso.telecom-paris.fr/rioul/
Information Theory Book:
http://www.editoraunicamp.com.br/produto_detalhe.asp?id=1177