Friday, April 3, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Channel Capacity of Biological Signal Transduction Systems
Speaker: Peter Thomas (Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics)
Abstract: Shannon's mathematical theory of communication quantifies the information that can be transmitted by a given communication channel. Biological signal transduction systems operate through a coupled ensemble...
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Friday, April 17, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Most Probably Intersecting Families of Subsets
Speaker: Gyula Katona (Renyi Institute, Budapest, and Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Abstract: Let F be a family of an n-element set. It is called intersecting if every pair of its members have a non-disjoint intersection. It is well- known that an...