Colloquium speaker, Marcelo Gleiser (Dartmouth College) today at 4pm

[Patterson, Robin L.]

Please join us for the Physics Colloquium today, at 4:00 PM in The Robert Smith Seminar Room. There will be a reception in the Atrium at 3:45PM. Details concerning the talk are as follows:

Speaker:         Marcelo Gleiser  (Dartmouth College)
Date:              Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Time:              4:00 PM
Place:            1080 Physics Research Building, The Robert Smith Seminar Room
Title:               Emergent Complexity in the Universe: An Information-Entropic Approach


Abstract:  From atoms to stars, physically-bound systems result from the interplay between attractive and repulsive interactions. In this lecture, I will present a new measure of complexity called "Configurational Entropy". Inspired by Shannon's information entropy, I will show how the configurational entropy encodes information about the shape and the stability of various physical objects, and how it can be used as an efficient measure of emerging complexity during nonequilibrium phenomena. Applications to be discussed will include atoms, solitons, compact astrophysical objects, spontaneous symmetry breaking, and inflationary cosmology.

The website for the colloquium is https://physics.osu.edu/physics-colloquium-schedule


Robin
[The Ohio State University]
Robin Patterson
Program Coordinator
Department of Physics
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