STA 290 Seminar: Thomas Courtade

Speaker: Thomas Courtade, Associate Professor, Dept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Title: "Information inequalities on Euclidean space"

Abstract: This talk will cover recent developments in information inequalities, with an emphasis on unifying perspectives. In particular, I’ll present a general class of entropy inequalities, and demonstrate a variety of applications to information theory, analysis, geometry, statistics (and more!).  Parts of this talk are based on joint works with Efe Aras (arXiv:2206.14182v1), Jingbo Liu (J. Geom. Anal., 2021), and Edric Wang (arXiv:2509.08998).

Faculty website (links to UC Berkeley): https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~courtade/