QuICS Seminar

Date
Wed, Aug 24, 2016 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location
3100A Computer and Space Science Building

Description

Speaker: Hirosi Ooguri

Speaker Affiliation: Caltech

Title: What information theory teaches us on gravitational theory

Abstract: Positive energy theorems play a fundamental role in general relativity. Recently, we found a new class of positive energy theorems using information inequalities such as the positivity and monotonicity of the relative entropy.
This and related applications of information theory are providing us new insights into gravitational theory.