Course schedule
January 17
Intro to course, decisions. The decision was to read together A Mathematical Theory of Communication, by C.E. Shannon
January 24
Ben MacDonald: what is a communication system, capacity of a discrete noiseless system
January 31
Ryan Grindle: continuation of the discussion of recurrence relations and their asymptotic growth from last time, beginning of the discussion of Theorem 1
February 7
Rob Galloway Jr.: Discussion of Theorem 1 on page 384
February 14
Ben Emery: Proof of Theorem 1 of page 384 (which is itself in Appendix 1)
February 21
Francis Baffour-Awuah Jr.: Sections 2 and 3
February 28
Ryan Grindle: Sections 4 and 5, graphical representation of a Markoff process and ergodic stochastic processes
March 7
Ben MacDonald: Review of Section 5, Section 6, including the proof of Theorem 2 which is in Appendix II.
March 21
Rob Galloway Jr.: Finish up the proof of Theorem 2.
March 28
Ben Emery: Finish up Section 6; properties of the entropy function and conditional entropy.
April 4
Francis Baffour-Awuah Jr.: Section 7, but with no theorems
April 11
Class canceled
April 18
Short presentations: Francis Baffour-Awuah Jr., “Qualitative Analysis of Insect Outbreak Systems: The Spruce Budworm and Forest” by Ludwig, Jones, and Holling.
April 25
Short presentations: Rob Galloway Jr. and Ryan Grindle
May 2
Short presentations: Ben Emery and Ben MacDonald