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Analysis and Probability Seminar

Title: Entropy and Chaos in the Kac Model
Speaker: Professor Eric Carlen
Speaker Info: George Institute of Technology
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This talk will explain the proof and use of some new entropy inequalities, applied to a model of binary collisions due to Mark Kac. The results presented come from collaborations with several coauthors, including Carvalho, Lieb, Loss and Villani.

Date: Monday, February 28, 2005
Time: 4:10pm
Where: Lunt 105
Contact Person: Prof. Elton P. Hsu
Contact email: elton@math.northwestern.edu
Contact Phone: 847-491-8541
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