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AMCS/PICS Colloquium

Friday, February 6, 2015 - 2:00pm

SRS Varadhan

NYU

Location

University of Pennsylvania

Towne 337

The concept of entropy was introduced in Statistical Mechanics to describe the abundance of microstates that correspond to a given macrostate. It plays a crucial role in probability in the estimation of probabilities for large deviations. We will explore this connection.