Entropy and Information: Concepts and Applications
CMPLXSYS 445
Fall 2025, University of Michigan
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1. Introduction & Motivation
Date
: August 25, 2025 (Monday)
Slides
Papers mentioned:
What is information? by Christoph Adami, 2016
Different languages, similar encoding efficiency… by Coupé et al., 2019
Efficient compression in color naming… by Zaslavsky et al., 2018
Thermodynamics of information by Parrondo et al., 2015
2. Probability Theory I
Date
: August, 27 (Wednesday)
Lecture Notes
Reference:
Gardiner
Chapter 2