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Lausanne,
September 8 - 9
2008
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Tentative Program:
Max-Olivier Hongler (EPFL) "Nonlinear Reaction-Diffusion Equations connected with Stochastic Control Problems"
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Charles Edouard Pfister (EPFL) "Renyi Entropy, Guesswork Moments and Large Deviations"
Emina Soljanin (Bell Labs, Lucent) "Von Neumann Entropy and Quantum Information Processing"
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Peter Harremoës (CWI Amsterdam) "Rate distortion tests"
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Ambedkar Dukkipati (IISc Bangalore) "On Parametric and Implicit Algebraic descriptions of Maximum Entropy models"
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Oliver Johnson (University of Bristol) "Some results in Maximum Entropy"
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Erwan Hillion (Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) "Ricci curvature for graphs by concavity of relative entropy"
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Nisheeth Srivastava (CWI Amsterdam) "Information-theoretic observations on the calculus of variations"
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Flemming Topsoe (University of Copenhagen) "On the generation of measures of entropy, divergence and complexity"
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Jan Naudts (Universiteit Antwerpen) "Statistical physics models belonging to the generalised exponential family"
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Mokshay Madiman (Yale University) "Statistical Data Compression with Distorsion"
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