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Information?: An Inquiry

Thursdays, 9:30-11 am
Science Building, Room 227

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For further information contact Paul Grobstein.


Schedule and Notes

Date/Discussion summarySpeaker/Presentation notesTopic/advance links
25 May 2004Planning
Grobstein, Lindell
An Information Update: The Search for the Third Law
Clock-Watchers, New Scientist, 1 May 2004, pp 34ff
1 June 2004LindellInformation by Hans Christian von Baeyer
8 June 2004RaimyInformation/Models/Story Tellers/Linguistics
15 June 2004Raimy, GrobsteinFrom Linguistics to Nervous Systems: Information Destruction/Addition/Creation
22 June 2004Albano/McCormackWhy DO physicists do it the way they do it? (and is that telling us something about information as opposed to matter/energy?) ... In the Beginning Was the Bit
1 July 2004MarshallChaitin and randomness in arithmetic
8 July 2004MarshallChaitin and randomness in arithmetic
15 July 2004GrobsteinBeyond reversibility and consistency and computability and skepticism: information?
22 July 2004GrobsteinBeyond skepticism: information?


Further meetings of the Information Working Group may be scheduled in fall, 2004. If interested, contact Paul Grobstein



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