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Graduate Student Combinatorics Seminar Sponsored by DIMACS

A quick introduction to entropy

Jinyoung Park (Rutgers University)

Location:  GSL - Room 701
Date & time: Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 12:15PM - 1:15PM

 
   
Abstract:

We introduce the entropy of a discrete random variable and discuss some quick applications.

This talk is mostly based on Galvin's lecture notes: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.7872

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