Information in Natural Sciences,
Social Sciences, Humanities and Engineering
2. Preparatory Conference
February 25 - March 2, 2002
Programm:
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The ZiF – Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Bielefeld – supports the research group "General Theory of Information Transfer and Combinatorics" from October 2001 – August 2004, with its central research year from October 2002 – August 2003. The main goal of the research project is further development of the General Theory of Information Transfer both along theoretical and experimental lines.
The two preparatory conferences serve as a first forum for an exchange of ideas between information theorists and researchers from fields where notions of information play an essential role including scientists from mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, computer science and, to a small extent, humanities. At a later stage, after elaboration of mathematically treatable models and problems, attempts for a solution will be made by researchers with strong mathematical background. Often new combinatorial problems arise, which sometimes can be treated with known methods, but in a lot of cases also require new combinatorial methods. In this sense there is an interplay between information problems from several research fields and combinatorics.
In the second meeting addresses several subjects, some also with more experimental orientation. Here the main goal is to inform about results and open problems from research on questions of an informational character in a very broad interdisciplinary context. There will be survey talks as well as speakers who are asked to highlight informational phenomena from their field, which may or may not be fully theoretically understood. The session topics for this meeting include: Communication of Animals, Pattern Discovery, Language Evolution, Concepts of Information, Information and Complexity in Chemistry and Technology, Physics – Entanglement and Information, Search – Sorting – Ordering.
Rudolf Ahlswede: General Theory of Information Transfer | |
Alberto Apostolico: Pattern Discovery and the Algorithmics of Surprise | |
Henry Brighton: Modelling the Evolution of Linguistic Structure | |
Kenny Smith: Compositionality from Culture: the Role of Environment Structure and Learning Bias | |
James R. Hurford: The Neural Basis of Predicate-Argument Structure | |
Peter Harremoes: Zipf’s Law, Hyperbolic Distributions and Entropy Loss | |
Christian Deppe: Information Theoretic Models in Language Evolution | |
Raimund Apfelbach: Chemical Communication in Mammals: What We Know and What We Would Like to Know | |
Zhanna Reznikova: Use Ideas of Information Theory to Study Animal Communication: A New Tool to Find News | |
Ádám Miklósi: Some General Insights of Animal Communication From Studying Interspecific Communication | |
Elena V. Konstantinova: Applications of Information Theory in Chemical Graph Theory | |
Vieri Benci: Dynamical Systems and Data Compression | |
Stefano Galatolo: Algorithmic Information Content, Dynamical Systems and Weak Chaos | |
Ingo Althöfer: On the Design of Multiple Choice Systems: Shortlisting in Candidate Sets | |
Rüdiger Reischuk: Algorithmic Learning of Formal Languages | |
Vladimir Balakirsky: Hashing of Databases With the Use of Metric Properties of the Hamming Space | |
Mikhail Malioutov: Non-Parametric Search for Significant Inputs of Unknown System | |
Klaus Mainzer: Information Dynamics in Nature and Society. An Interdisciplinary Approach | |
Holger Lyre: Philosophy of Physics and the Concept of Information | |
Edmund Wascher: An Integrative Approach to Human Information Processing: From Pawlow’s Dog to Functional Imaging | |
Rainer E. Zimmermann: Spin Networks as Channels of Information Processing | |
Jozef Gruska: Quantum Computation | |
Alexander S. Holevo: On Entanglement-Assisted Capacity of Quantum Channel | |
Andreas Winter: Quantum Data Compression: The State of the Art | |
Jozef Gruska: Quantum Multipartite Entanglement | |
Gyula O.H. Katona: Strong Qualitative Independence | |
Gabor Wiener: The Recognition Problem in Combinatorial Search | |
Vladimir Levenshtein: Coding Theory and Two-Stage Testing Algorithms | |
Daniele Mundici: Learning and the Art of Fault-Tolerant Guesswork | |
Vladimir Blinovsky: Random Sphere Packing | |
Boris Ryabko: The Estimate for the Cost of Search Trees Constructed on Arbitrary Sets of Binary Words | |
Ferdinando Cicalese: Some Useful Aspects of Majorization in Information Theory | |
Pavel A. Vilenkin: A Search Model for Supersets |