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Monday, 26 December 2016
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:15 to 09:30 -- Welcome
09:30 to 11:00 Juan MR Parrondo (CEA/Saclay, France) Thermodynamics of Information
11:00 to 11:30 -- Tea Break
11:30 to 13:00 S. Vaikuntanathan (University. of Chicago, USA) Information processing and thermodynamics in biophysical control systems
13:00 to 14:30 -- Lunch
14:30 to 15:30 -- Free time for discussions
Tuesday, 27 December 2016
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:30 to 11:00 S. Vaikuntanathan (University. of Chicago, USA) Information processing and thermodynamics in biophysical control systems
11:00 to 11:30 -- Tea Break
11:30 to 13:00 Juan MR Parrondo (CEA/Saclay, France) Thermodynamics of Information
13:00 to 14:30 -- Lunch
14:30 to 15:30 -- Free time for discussions
15:30 to 17:00 S. Vaikuntanathan (University. of Chicago, USA) Information processing and thermodynamics in biophysical control systems
Wednesday, 28 December 2016
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:30 to 11:00 Florent Krzakala (ENS, France) From information theory to learning via Statistical Physics: Introduction: statistical learning, Bayes rules, estimators, and statistical physics
11:00 to 11:20 -- Tea Break
11:20 to 12:50 Lenka Zdeborova (CEA/Saclay, France) Journey trough statistical physics of constraint satisfaction and inference: Random graph coloring. Belief propagation
12:50 to 14:10 -- Lunch
14:10 to 15:40 Juan MR Parrondo (CEA/Saclay, France) Thermodynamics of Information
15:30 to 17:00 Pierre Hohenberg (New York University, USA) What is Science - ICTS distinguished Lecture
Thursday, 29 December 2016
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:30 to 11:00 Florent Krzakala (ENS, France) From information theory to learning via Statistical Physics: Phase transition in learning: easy, hard and impossible phases
09:30 to 11:00 -- Tea Break
11:30 to 13:00 Lenka Zdeborova (CEA/Saclay, France) Journey trough statistical physics of constraint satisfaction and inference: Analysis of phase transitions and algorithmic consequences
13:00 to 14:30 -- Lunch
15:00 to 16:00 P. Mitra Special colloquium
16:05 to 17:05 Pierre Hohenberg (New York University, USA) What is quantum mechanics? A minimal formulation (Seminar)
Friday, 30 December 2016
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:30 to 11:00 Florent Krzakala (ENS, France) From information theory to learning via Statistical Physics: From statistical physics to statistical inference
11:00 to 11:30 -- Tea Break
11:30 to 13:00 Lenka Zdeborova (CEA/Saclay, France) Journey trough statistical physics of constraint satisfaction and inference: Planted coloring, stochastic block model, computational phase transitions, spectral methods
13:00 to 14:30 -- Lunch
15:00 to 16:00 C. N. R. Rao (JNCASR, India) Abdus Salam lecture
17:00 to 18:00 -- Tutorial
Monday, 02 January 2017
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:30 to 11:00 Mark Transtrum (Brigham Young University, USA) Sloppiness and Parameter Identifiability, Information Geometry, and the Role of Experimental Design (Lecture 1)
11:00 to 11:30 -- Tea Break
11:30 to 13:00 Ben Machta (Princeton University, USA) Why do simple models work? Partial answers from information geometry (Lecture 1)
13:00 to 14:30 -- Lunch
14:30 to 15:30 -- Free time for discussions
15:30 to 17:00 -- Tutorial
Tuesday, 03 January 2017
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:30 to 11:00 Mark Transtrum (Brigham Young University, USA) Computational Differential Geometry, Optimization Algorithms, and the Manifold Boundary Approximation Method (Lecture 2)
11:00 to 11:30 Tea Break --
11:30 to 13:00 -- Discussions
13:00 to 14:30 -- Lunch
14:30 to 15:30 -- Free time for discussions
15:30 to 17:00 -- Tutorial
Wednesday, 04 January 2017
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:30 to 11:00 Apoorva Patel (IISc, India) Information Theory Meets Quantum Physics: The magic of wave dynamics
11:00 to 11:30 -- Tea Break
11:30 to 13:00 Ben Machta (Princeton University, USA) Why are simpler models better? Bayesian priors and Occam's razor (Lecture 2a); From the Jarzynski equality to linear response (Lecture 2b)
13:00 to 14:30 -- Lunch
14:30 to 16:00 Mark Transtrum (Brigham Young University, USA) Applications of MBAM, Information Topology (Lecture 3)
16:30 to 18:00 Matthew Headrick (Brandeis University, USA) Entanglement entropy, quantum field theory, and holography
Thursday, 05 January 2017
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:30 to 11:00 Ben Machta (Princeton University, USA) Geometric bounds for dissipation (Lecture 3)
11:00 to 11:30 -- Tea Break
11:30 to 13:00 Matthew Headrick (Brandeis University, USA) Entanglement entropy, quantum field theory, and holography
13:00 to 14:30 -- Lunch
Friday, 06 January 2017
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:30 to 11:00 Albion Lawrence (Brandies University, USA) Introduction to Quantum Entaglement
11:00 to 11:30 -- Tea Break
11:30 to 13:00 Matthew Headrick (Brandeis University, USA) Entanglement entropy, quantum field theory, and holography
13:00 to 14:30 -- Lunch
14:30 to 15:30 -- Tutorial