Seminar series
Date
Mon, 13 Jun 2011
15:45
15:45
Location
Oxford-Man Institute
Speaker
Keith Ball
Organisation
University of Edinburgh
The talk will explain how a geometric principle
gave rise to a new variational description of information-theoretic entropy and
how this led to the solution of a problem dating back to the 50's: whether the
the central limit theorem is driven by an analogue of the second law of
thermodynamics.