University of Sydney

    School of Mathematics and Statistics

    Applied Mathematics Seminar

    Associate Professor David Edelman
    Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Wollongong

    and

    Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney

    Entropy, Information-Theoretic, Coding, and Description-Length Considerations in Mathematical Modelling

    Wednesday, May 10th, 2-3pm, Carslaw 275.

    An approach towards unifying Entropy, Information-Theoretic, Coding, and Description-Length criteria in Mathematical Modeling will be presented at a level which presupposes little knowledge about any of these, and will be motivated using elementary examples from Physics, Coding Theory, and Finance. A discussion of modelling methods which appear to be currently `in' and `out' of `favour' and/or common use in the theory and practice of Mathematical/Statistical/Probabilistic Modeling will be included (along with some editorial comment), and a new, original modelling criterion for distributions will be presented. Some interesting (as yet unsolved) ordinary differential equations which arise from this new criterion will be discussed.