All student talks will be in Math 126 starting at 3:30, except for the talk on Dec. 2 which will start at 4:00. Dec. 2 (4 PM) Toral automorphisms and entropy - Nishant Chandgotia Dec. 5 Large deviations and Kullback-Liebler distance - Alex Tomberg Dec. 6 Huffman codes - Zichun Ye Dec. 7 Ergodic Theory on Stationary Random Graphs - Gourab Ray Dec. 8 Ising model - Yang Lu Dec. 9 Shannon coding theorem (negative part) and algorithm for computing capacity - Hannah Cairns Dec. 12: Cellular Automata and Gibbs measures - Felipe Garcia Dec. 13: Higher dimensional ergodic theorem - Yu-Ting Chen Dec. 14 Higher-dimensional entropy theorems - Ed Kroc Dec. 15 Multiple Recurrence and Szmeredi-type theorems - Brett Kolsenik