The first talk will introduce a lot of basic concepts and outline a few of the workshop’s goals:
• John Baez, Information and entropy in biological systems.
Abstract. Information and entropy are being used in biology in many different ways: for example, to study biological communication systems, the ‘action-perception loop’, the thermodynamic foundations of biology, the structure of ecosystems, measures of biodiversity, and evolution. Can we unify these? To do this, we must learn to talk to each other. This will be easier if we share some basic concepts which I’ll sketch here.
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[…] 9:45-10:00 — the usual introductory fussing around. • 10:00-10:30 — John Baez, Information and entropy in biological systems. • 10:30-11:00 — questions, coffee. • 11:00-11:30 — Chris Lee, Empirical […]
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