Aula Rostagni live - Colloquium: Boole, Shannon and the Challenge of Data Science
Channel: Aula Rostagni UniPadova DFA
Date: 2016-01-14

14 gennaio 2016, ore 15:00, Aula "A. Rostagni"

Prof. Marc Mézard
École Normale Supérieure, Paris

Boole, Shannon and the Challenge of Data Science: a Statistical Physics Perspective

In 1854, in his treatise on the Laws of Nature, George Boole had sta-ted a clear goal: «to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is per-formed». This led him to study the foundations of logic and of probabilities. A century later, Claude Shannon opened the way to a mathematical understan-ding of information and of its communication. The fields of research initiated by these two giants play a major role in contemporary science, and in particular in the handling of large amounts of data, and in the extraction of information out of these data. However, in large-size problems, collective phenomena of the type studied in statistical physics, like phase transitions, start to play a major role. This talk will study the importance of phase transitions in some core problems of Boolean logics and of information theory, with a special focus on the importance of glassy phases. This workshop aims to bring together specialists in the field of theoretical research of ultracold quantum matter working on the areas of long-range interacting systems, quantum metrology and technology, ultracold many-body localized systems and driven optical lattices.