{"id":945,"date":"2016-06-27T10:49:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T09:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/?p=945"},"modified":"2016-07-05T10:53:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T09:53:12","slug":"marc-mezard-boole-shannon-and-the-challenge-of-data-science-a-statistical-physics-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/marc-mezard-boole-shannon-and-the-challenge-of-data-science-a-statistical-physics-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Mezard, \u201cBoole, Shannon, and the challenge of data science: A statistical physics perspective\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Wednesday\u00a0June\u00a029\u00a02016<br \/>\n15:00<br \/>\nScuola Normale Superiore<br \/>\nAula\u00a0Azzurra<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Marc Mezard<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, Paris<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Abstract<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In 1854, in his treatise on the Laws of Nature, George Boole had stated a clear goal : \u00ab to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed \u00bb. This led him to study the foundations of logic and of probabilities. A century later, Claude Shannon opened the way to a mathematical understanding 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday\u00a0June\u00a029\u00a02016 15:00 Scuola Normale Superiore Aula\u00a0Azzurra Marc Mezard \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, Paris Abstract In 1854, in his treatise on the Laws of Nature, George Boole had stated a clear goal : \u00ab to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed \u00bb. This led him to study the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}