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Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Peter Harremoës *
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Kruislaan 413, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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* Dr. Michel Petitjean served as the Editor-in-Chief during July 2003-June 2006
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Dr. Derek J. McPhee
Director of Chemistry, Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc., 5885 Hollis St, Suite 100, Emeryville CA 94608 USA
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Ms. Tina Wang *
MDPI, Beijing Branch Office, Tong Zhou District, Beijing, P. R. China
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Dr. Francis F. Muguet
LMA, ENSTA (École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées), 32 Boulevard Victor, F-75739 Paris Cedex, France
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General Editorial Board
Dr. James Baker-Jarvis
National Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway, MS 818.01, Boulder, CO, USA
Tel. (303) 497-5621
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Interests: dielectrics, electromagnetic properties of materials, maximum entropy methods
Prof. Dr. Jacob Bekenstein
Polak Professor of Theoretical Physics, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, 91904; Israel
Tel. 972 (0)2 658 4374; Fax: 972 (0)2 5611519
Website: http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/~bekenste/ E-Mail:
Interests: Gravitational theory, black hole physics, relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, galactic dynamics, physical aspects of information theory, physics of the vacuum
Prof. Dr. M. A. Bouchene
Laboratoire Collisions, Agregats , Reactivite, UMR 5589 , Universite Paul Sabatier, 118, route de Narbonne, Toulouse, France
Tel. +(33)5 61 55 60 02; Fax: +(33)5 61 55 83 17
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Interests: Optical sciences, Atomic and Molecular physics, Coherent control
Contribution:
Special Issue: Recent Advances in Entanglement and Quantum Information Theory
Prof. Dr. Philip Broadbridge
Diretor, Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute, 111 Barry Street, c-/ The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Tel. 03 8344 1779; Fax: 03 9349 4106
Website: http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/researcher/person130135.html E-Mail:
Interests: Concepts of Entropy and Their Applications
Contribution:
Special Issue: Concepts of Entropy and Their Applications - Papers presented at the Meeting at University of Melbourne, 26 November - 11 December 2007
Prof. Dr. Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira
Department of Statistics, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo, C.P. 66281, 05389-970-Sao Paulo,SP, Brazil
Tel. (55-11) 818-6101; Fax: (55-11) 814-4135
Website: http://www.ime.usp.br/~cpereira E-Mail:
Interests: Bayesian inference, foundations of Statistics, significance, evidence, Bayesian analysis of discrete data (BADD)
Dr. Laurance R. Doyle
Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, California, 94043, USA
Tel. (650) 960-4533
Website: http://www.alaskawhalefoundation.org/aboutAWF/collaborators.html E-Mail:
Interests: Photometric techniques for detecting extrasolar planets, information theory applied to animal communications, astro-ecology and remote detection of exobiological systems, quantum astronomy and cosmic-scale quantum measurement problems
Contribution:
Special Issue: Information Theory Applied to Animal Communication
Dr. Remo Garattini
Faculty of Engineering, University of Bergamo, Viale Marconi 5, 24044 Dalmine (Bergamo), Italy
Tel. +39-035-2052320; Fax: +39-035-562779
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Interests: quantum gravity, quantum cosmology, quantum field theory
Contribution:
Special Issue: Entropy in Quantum Gravity
Prof. Dr. Alexander Gorban
Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Tel. +44 (0) 116 223 14 33
Website: http://www.math.le.ac.uk/people/ag153/ E-Mail:
Interests: neural networks,chemical and biological kinetics, Human adaptation to hard living conditions, Methods and technologies of collective thinking
Dr. Donald J. Jacobs
Department of Physics and Optical Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
Tel. +1-704-687-8143; Fax: +1-704-687-8197
Website: http://www.physics.uncc.edu/physstaff/djacobs/ E-Mail:
Interests: computational physics, biological physics, protein stability, phase transitions, Brownian motion
Contribution:
Special Issue: Entropies of Polymers
Dr. Axel Kleidon
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Biogeochemie, Postfach 10 01 64, 07701 Jena, Germany
Tel. +49-3641-57-6217; Fax: +49-3641-57-7217
Website: http://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/bgc-theory/index.php?n=Group.AxelKleidon E-Mail:
Interests: biodiversity; maximum entropy production; thermodynamics and optimality to human activity in the climate system; gaia hypothesis; global dynamic vegetation models
Prof. Dr. Frank C. Krysiak
University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics, Environmental Economics, Petersgraben 51, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 267 33 60; Fax: +41 61 267 27 59
Website: http://www.wwz.unibas.ch/umwelt/team/krysiak/index.htm E-Mail:
Interests: environmental policy under uncertainty, risk and sustainable development, heterogeneity and policy evaluation
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Linert
Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Getreidemarkt 9/163-AC, A-1060 Wien, Austria
Tel. +43-1-58801-15350; Fax: +43-1-58801-16299
Website: http://www.ias.tuwien.ac.at/researchacwl_e.html E-Mail:
Interests: thermal and optical Spin-State Transitions, Molecular Magnets, Isokinetic Relationships, Compensation Effect, Material Science
Prof. Dr. Ingo Müller
Technical University Berlin, Faculty III of Process Sciences, Institute of Process, Engineering, Thermodynamics, Fasanenstr. 90, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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Interests: Irreversible and extended thermodynamics, Kinetic theory of gases, Shape memory alloys, Ferroelectricity, Phase transitions and phase diagrams, Hysteresis, Polyelectrolytic gels, Relativistic thermodynamics, Rubber and rubber balloons, Socio-thermodynamics, History of thermodynamics
Dr. Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, Valckenierstraat 65-67, 1018 XE Amsterdam, room 2.43, The Netherlands
Tel. (+31/0)20-5256332; Fax: (+31/0)20-5255778
Website: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~nieuwenh/ E-Mail:
Interests: Foundations of general relativity, Sub-quantum mechanics, Quantum information theory, Quantum measurement process, Quantum thermodynamics and the Gibbs paradox, Biophysics: Molecular motors, Neural networks, DNA adsorption, Black hole thermodynamics, Black hole information paradox, Gravitation: Globular star clusters, Thermodynamic description of the glassy state, Spin glasses and Model glasses, Transport of light in strongly scattering media, Interfaces and directed polymers, Lifshitz and Griffiths singularities, Noise in physical systems, Random walks on random lattices, Disordered chains, Foundations of special relativity
Contribution:
Special Issue: Gibbs Paradox and Its Resolutions
Dr. Robert Niven
H.C. Ørsted Institute, Niels Bohr Institute, Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark and School of Aerospace, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia
Tel. +61 2 6268 8330
Website: http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/acme/staffpages/niven.html E-Mail:
Interests: Entropy, probability theory and information theory; Boltzmann principle; Jaynes' MaxEnt and its scientific, engineering and social applications
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Michael Nosonovsky
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA
Tel. +1-201-216-8778; Fax: +1-201-216-8315
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Interests: nanotribology, multiscale mechanisms of dissipation, capillary, instabilities, biotribology, contact mechanics
Dr. Joe Rosen
338 New Mark Esplanade, Rockville MD 20850-2734, USA
Tel. +1-301-610-7666; Fax: +1-301-610-7666
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Interests: symmetry, Curie principle, space, time, spacetime, quantum
Contribution:
Special Issue: Symmetry and Entropy
Dr. Stanley (Stan) N. Salthe
HCR 86, 228 Laurel Bank Avenue, Deposit, New York 13754, USA
Fax: 607-467-2200
Website: http://www.nbi.dk/~natphil/salthe/index.html E-Mail:
Interests: Disorder, dissipative structures, gradients, negentropy, variety
Prof. Dr. Michael (Mike) Stutzer
Professor of Finance and Director, Burridge Center for Securities Analysis and Valuation, Leeds School of Business, 419 UCB, Business 411, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0419, USA
Tel. 303 492 4348
Website: http://leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/stutzer/ E-Mail:
Interests: Kullback-Leibler, large deviations, finance, economics, Esscher Transform
Prof. Bernard Testa
Pharmacy Department, University Hospital Centre, CHUV/BH-04, 46 Rue du Bugnon, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel. +41 21 314 4237; Fax: +41 21 314 4992
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Interests: Emergence / emergent properties;Dissolvence / Constrained properties; Biochemical systems; Drug-biosystem interactions; Molecular dynamics simulations
Dr. Takuya Yamano
Social Science Research Institute, International Christian University, 3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka 181-8585, Tokyo,
Tel. +81-422-33-3367; Fax: +81-422-33-3367
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Interests: nonextensivity, complexity, information, economics
Dr. Paola Zizzi
Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of Padova, Via Belzoni, 7, 35131 Padova, Italy
Tel. +39-049-8275862; Fax: +39-049-8275892
Website: http://www.math.unipd.it E-Mail:
Interests: quantum gravity, quantum cosmology, quantum information
Contribution:
Special Issue: Quantum Spaces: Where Locality Is not Necessary, Causality Might not Be, but Entropy Certainly Is
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