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| My [https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/algorithms-and-computations-theoretical-physics-set-lectures 2025 Public Lectures at the University of Oxford (UK)] run from 21 January 2025 through 11 March 2025. | My [https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/algorithms-and-computations-theoretical-physics-set-lectures 2025 Public Lectures at the University of Oxford (UK)] run from 21 January 2025 through 11 March 2025. | ||
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| We start our parallel exploration of physics and of computing with the concept of | We start our parallel exploration of physics and of computing with the concept of | ||
| sampling, the process of producing examples (“samples”) of a probability distribu- | sampling, the process of producing examples (“samples”) of a probability distribu- | ||
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My 2025 Public Lectures at the University of Oxford (UK) run from 21 January 2025 through 11 March 2025.
Lecture 1: 21 January 2025
We start our parallel exploration of physics and of computing with the concept of sampling, the process of producing examples (“samples”) of a probability distribu- tion. In week 1, we consider “direct” sampling (the examples are obtained directly) and, among the many connections to physics, will come across the Maxwell distri- bution. In 1859, it marked the beginning of the field of statistical physics.
