Jason Larkin, PhD  ~ Complex Thermostatistics
Channel: Complexity Weekend
Date: 2020-09-30

From Complexity Weekend 2019 https://www.complexityweekend.com/

The microscopic analysis of thermodynamics that began with Maxwell et al produced some of the most important foundations in the understanding of complexity. While cutting edge research continues in thermodynamic systems (condensed matter, soft matter, etc), thermodynamics plays key roles at multiple levels of all the hierarchies of complex systems that interest us. With connections from information and computational complexity theory, current research is examined which ties thermodynamics to some of the most foundational questions in science, like the universe as a computation and the connection between entropy and intelligence.

Jason Larkin is a Research Scientist at the Emerging Technology Center at CMU's Software Engineering Institute and was the complex thermostatistics research facilitator at ComplexityCon 2019.