| TYPE | Colloquium |
| Speaker: | Prof. Dov Levine |
| Affiliation: | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
| Organizer: | Hagai Perets |
| Date: | 19.11.2018 |
| Time: | 14:30 - 15:30 |
| Location: | Lidow Rosen Auditorium (323) |
| Abstract: | Entropy is a central concept in the statistical mechanics and thermodynamics of equilibrium systems. I will discuss how lossless data compression can be used to estimate the Shannon entropy, which reduces to the thermodynamic entropy in equilibrium, and show that it gives useful information for a variety of different far-from-equilbrium systems. |