The Distinguished Lecture Series on Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information


sponsored by

The Santa Fe Institute

The Quantum Institute at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Center for Advanced Studies at The University of New Mexico

Information Physics Group at the University of New Mexico


All lectures are given in the Robert N. Noyce Conference Room at the Santa Fe Institute unless noted.

Future CEPI Lectures

Date Time Speaker Topic
3/9/05 reception: 4:15-5 p.m.
talk: 5-6 p.m.
Benjamin Schumacher
Kenyon College
Information Engines and the Second Law

Past CEPI Lectures

Date Time Speaker Topic
1/19/05 reception: 4:15-5 p.m.
talk: 5-6 p.m.
H. Jeff Kimble
California Institute of Technology
Quantum Information Science Enabled by Quantum Optics
12/8/04 reception: 4:15-5 p.m.
talk: 5-6 p.m.
Constantino Tsallis
Brazilian Center for Physics Research and SFI
About the Possible Unavoidability of the Generalization of the Concept of Physical Entropy
11/10/04 reception: 4:15-5 p.m.
talk: 5-6 p.m.
Wim van Dam
University of California, Santa Barbara
Quantum Computing, Zeroes of Zeta Functions & Approximate Counting
9/29/04 reception: 4:15-5 p.m.
talk: 5-6 p.m.
Doyne Farmer
Santa Fe Institute
Long Memory and Fat Tails in Price Diffusion: Applications of Physics Thinking to Economics.
8/25/04 reception: 4:15-5 p.m.
talk: 5-6 p.m.
Ashwin Nayak
The University of Waterloo
The Perimeter Institute
Quantum Encoding of Classical Information
4/21/04 reception: 4:15-5 p.m.
talk: 5-6 p.m.
Leonard J. Schulman
California Institute of Technology
Physical Limits of Heat-bath Algorithmic Cooling