Event Detail

Event Type: 
Graduate Student Summer Seminar
Date/Time: 
Monday, July 27, 2015 - 14:30 to 15:30
Location: 
Kidder 364

Speaker Info

Guest Speaker: 
Abby Pekoske
Institution: 
Graduate Student - Oregon State University
Abstract: 

Shannon and metric entropy are important topics in symbolic
dynamics and information theory. We give an overview of these types of
entropy and discuss how they relate to subshifts of finite type and
topological entropy.