Adom Giffin's Webpage
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Hello!

Welcome to my webpage! I am a physics Ph.D. candidate working with Dr. Ariel Caticha on the foundations of information theory (specifically irreversibility and Bayesian information processing) and physics at the University at Albany. Besides the paper I will be delivering at MaxEnt 2007 as mentioned below, I am currently working on papers applying the same method to a problem in Ecology and Econometrics. Also I am working on a paper using information geometry to describe complexity and randomness from chaotic systems on a statistical manifold.

To your left are links to various conferences that I am either going to or hope to go attend. Below are recent notes that are used for various events or announcements. At the top you will find a copious amount of links to many subjects. Courses are courses that I either teach or assist in. My Research has links to my papers, presentations and a little more about my specific research interests. Research Links are links to specific people and things that my research touches. Professional Links are helpful links for professionals in academe. My CV and contact pages are the best places to check me out. Under Curriculum Vitae you will find a short online version and a downloadable pdf version. For my full contact information, simply click on Contact Me. The rest are misc links that I find useful and some personal stuff. If anything does not work let me know and again welcome!

MaxEnt 2007 - Update 5/24/2007Planning for the 27th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering is running smoothly. Besides planning to present "Updating Probabilities with Data and Expectation Values", I am also one of the organizers. There is still time to register!

PASCAL 2007I will be giving a presentation at this conference once again this year. The presentation will be a very condensed version of the MaxEnt 2007 paper.

Meeting the Entropy Challenge - An International Thermodynamics Symposium In Honor and Memory of Professor Joseph Henry Keenan (MIT) October 4–5, 2007By organizing an international symposium on the conceptual foundations of thermodynamics thirty years after the passing away of professor Joseph Henry Keenan, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology intends to honor this distinguished scientist who served on the faculty of its Mechanical Engineering Department for 43 years and effectively started an innovative school of thought on thermodynamics.

The symposium will feature an open discussion among international experts about conceptual, foundational and philosophical issues, enigmas, paradoxes and open questions regarding the role that the second law of thermodynamics plays in natural sciences, including physics, biology, energy, engineering, quantum information, micro and nanotechnology, and cosmology. The presentations and the discussions shall be recorded, transcribed, and after review by the speakers, published in the Symposium Proceedings.

I was awarded a Keenan Symposium Fellowship to help with travel costs associated with attending this symposium! Thank you very much symposium organizers!