Event
Special Seminar: "Inequalities Revisited" with Raymond W. Yeung
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Room 2460, A.V. Williams Building University of Maryland, College Park
Brittney Brookins
brookins@umd.edu
Speaker:
Raymond W. Yeung
Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hosted by:
The Institute for Systems Research (ISR) and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
Abstract:
Over the past two decades, research in information theory has revealed a new class of constraints on the Shannon entropy, non-Shannon-type inequalities, that connect to fields like group theory, matrix theory, and Kolmogorov complexity. In this seminar, Professor Yeung will revisit foundational mathematical inequalities—AM-GM, Markov’s, and Cauchy-Schwarz—through this lens, suggesting the potential for new discoveries in diverse branches of mathematics.
About the Speaker:
Raymond W. Yeung is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work in information theory and network coding. He is the author of influential textbooks adopted worldwide and gave the first-ever MOOC in information theory. His honors include the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2021) and the Claude E. Shannon Award (2022). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, and the U.S. National Academy of Inventors.
Zoom Access:
https://go.umd.edu/ECESeminar6-18-25
