Issue #13
Statistical Mechanics and Information Theory Workshop

Statistical Mechanics and Information Theory

a workshop at Hewlett-Packard's
Basic Research Institute in the Mathematical Sciences
(BRIMS)

Bristol, England
5-9 June 1995

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together physicists, information theorists, statisticians and scientists in several application areas to try and demarcate the common ground and to identify the common problems of the two fields. The style of the workshop will be informal, with time being set aside for discussions and facilities being provided to enable participants to work together.

Related conferences which have been held recently include the series on "Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods", the NATO ASI "From Statistical Physics to Statistical Inference and Back" and the IEEE Workshop on "Information Theory and Statistics".
At the present time, the following participants will be present (* indicates provisionally):

Colin Campbell, Bristol
* Mark Fannes, Leuven
Andy Fraser, Portland
* Neil Gershenfeld, MIT
John Hogan, Bristol
Abraham Lempel, Technion
Seth Lloyd, MIT
David Mackay, Cambridge
Anders Martin-Lof, Stockholm
David Montgomery, Dartmouth
Jean-Pierre Nadal, ENS Paris
Jorma Rissanen, IBM Almaden
Ronnie Roth, Technion
* Dan Ruderman, Cambridge
Gadiel Seroussi, HP Labs Palo Alto
* David Sherrington, Oxford
Richard Silver, Los Alamos
Nicolas Sourlas, ENS Paris
Tim Spiller, HP Labs Bristol
* Yuri Suhov, Cambridge
* Sergio Verdu, Princeton
Marcello Weinberger, HP Labs Palo Alto
* Wojciech Zurek, Los Alamos
For more information contact:

Jeremy Gunawardena
BRIMS, Hewlett-Packard Labs
Filton Road, Stoke Gifford
Bristol BS12 6QZ, UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 922 8216 direct
+44 (0)117 979 9910 central
Fax: +44 (0)117 922 9190
Elm: jhcg[at]hplb.hpl.hp.com