Title: A New Information Thermodynamics

Time: 4:00-5:30 PM, Monday, April 22nd, 2024

Venue: E10-211, Yungu Campus

Host: Chair Professor Congjun Wu, School of Science, Westlake University

Speaker:

Prof. Bing Miao, 

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

主讲人简介/Biography:

Dr. Bing Miao is a Professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) and an Adjunct Professor at the Lanzhou University. He obtained his PhD from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. Then he was a postdoc at St. Francis Xavier University, University of Guelph, and Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research since 2006-2011. He joined UCAS since 2011. He has a wide research interest in fluctuation-related physics and mathematics.

讲座摘要/Abstract:

I will introduce our recent work (jointed with Hong Qian and Yong-Shi Wu) on a new information thermodynamics which fulfills E. T. Jaynes’ vision of unifying information theory and statistical thermodynamics (Part A) and bridging Kolmogorov’s probability theory with statistical data modeling (Part B). Logarithm-based Shannon entropy figures prominently for i.i.d. sample statistics. A host of Boltzmann’s H-theorem-like dynamics and equations in stochastic thermodynamics are naturally derived through Markov dynamics in our theory. The connection of our work to non-equilibrium field theory will also be discussed through the Cramer’s theorem in large deviation theory.

讲座联系人/Contact:

理学院，张老师，邮箱：zhangyue62@westlake.edu.cn

School of Science, Ms Zhang, Email: zhangyue62@westlake.edu.cn