Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Entropy 2020 Travel Award in Quantum Information field to support a PhD student to attend a conference of their choice in 2020. The nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee presided over by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth.

The thematic areas for the two other Travel Awards are “Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes” and “Entropy and Biology”. Applicants should choose only one Travel Award to apply for. Applicants applying for more than one award will be disqualified from all awards.

Candidates’ Requirements:

–– Applicants must be PhD students involved in research fields related to Quantum Information.
–– Applicants will attend an international conference in 2020 and present their research (oral presentation or poster).

Applicants are required to submit the following documents:

–– An abstract of their work that will be presented at the conference.
–– Curriculum vitae, including educational background, an outline of current research work, and a list of publications.
–– A letter of recommendation from his/her supervisor or principal investigator (PI). The supervisor or PI should sign and confirm that the applicants fulfill all the requirements.
–– The awardee will be asked to acknowledge the support from the journal Entropy during their presentation.

The award will consist of 800 Swiss Francs.

Please apply by clicking the button above before 29 February 2020. The winners will be announced by on the Entropy website by 31 March 2020.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Entropy 2020 Travel Award in Entropy and Biology field to support a PhD student to attend a conference of their choice in 2020. The nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee presided over by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth.

The thematic areas for the two other Travel Awards are “Quantum Information” and “Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes”. Applicants should choose only one Travel Award to apply for. Applicants applying for more than one award will be disqualified from all awards.

Candidates’ Requirements:

–– Applicants must be PhD students involved in research fields related to Entropy and Biology.
–– Applicants will attend an international conference in 2020 and present their research (oral presentation or poster).

Applicants are required to submit the following documents:

–– An abstract of their work that will be presented at the conference.
–– Curriculum vitae, including educational background, an outline of current research work, and a list of publications.
–– A letter of recommendation from his/her supervisor or principal investigator (PI). The supervisor or PI should sign and confirm that the applicants fulfill all the requirements.
–– The awardee will be asked to acknowledge the support from the journal Entropy during their presentation.

The award will consist of 800 Swiss Francs.

Please apply by clicking the button above before 29 February 2020. The winners will be announced by on the Entropy website by 31 March 2020.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Entropy 2020 Travel Award in Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes field to support a PhD student to attend a conference of their choice in 2020. The nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee presided over by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth.

The thematic areas for the two other Travel Awards are “Quantum Information” and “Entropy and Biology”. Applicants should choose only one Travel Award to apply for. Applicants applying for more than one award will be disqualified from all awards.

Candidates’ Requirements:

–– Applicants must be PhD students involved in research fields related to Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes.
–– Applicants will attend an international conference in 2020 and present their research (oral presentation or poster).

Applicants are required to submit the following documents:

–– An abstract of their work that will be presented at the conference.
–– Curriculum vitae, including educational background, an outline of current research work and a list of publications.
–– A letter of recommendation from his/her supervisor or principal investigator (PI). The supervisor or PI should sign and confirm that the applicants fulfill all the requirements.
–– The awardee will be asked to acknowledge the support from the journal Entropy during their presentation.

The award will consist of 800 Swiss Francs.

Please apply by clicking the button above before 29 February 2020. The winners will be announced by on the Entropy website by 31 March 2020.

The Entropy Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to Entropy. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

It is our pleasure to announce that the following referees have been selected to receive the “Entropy 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of their reviews in 2019 (in alphabetical order by surname):

Dragana Bajic
University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Javier E. Contreras-Reyes
University of the Bío Bío, Chile

Daniel-Ioan Curiac
Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania

Soheil Keshmiri
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Japan

Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Mexico

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief of Entropy
University at Albany, USA

The editorial team would like to congratulate the winners of the 2019 Entropy Best Paper Awards. The winner nominations were made by a selection committee, which was chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth, and supported by thirteen Editorial Board Members. The three top-voted papers, in no particular order, have won the 2019 Entropy Best Paper Awards:

Levitated Nanoparticles for Microscopic Thermodynamics—A Review
Jan Gieseler and James Millen
Entropy 2018, 20(5), 326; https://doi.org/10.3390/e20050326

Transductive Feature Selection Using Clustering-Based Sample Entropy for Temperature Prediction in Weather Forecasting
Zahra Karevan and Johan A.K. Suykens
Entropy 2018, 20(4), 264; https://doi.org/10.3390/e20040264

Pointwise Partial Information Decomposition Using the Specificity and Ambiguity Lattices
Conor Finn and Joseph T. Lizier
Entropy 2018, 20(4), 297; https://doi.org/10.3390/e20040297

We congratulate and thank the authors for having chosen Entropy to publish their work.

In recognition of their accomplishment, the authors will collectively receive a cash award of 500 CHF, and the privilege of publishing an additional research article or review paper free of charge in open access format in Entropy after the usual peer-review procedure.

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Entropy and on behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 Entropy Travel Award in the field of Information Theory.

Zahra Baghali Khanian is PhD student at ICFO Barcelona and UAB Barcelona under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Winter and Prof. Maciek Lewenstien. She works on quantum Shannon theory and applications in quantum information. She is planning to present her works “Distributed Compression of Correlated Classical-Quantum Sources: The Price of Ignorance” and “Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Data Compression” at the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT2019, 7–12 July 2019, Paris, France). The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs to be used to attend this conference.

With so many high-quality applicants, it was a very difficult decision, and we thank all the applicants. We wish to congratulate Ms. Zahra Baghali Khanian for her accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Entropy and on behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 Entropy Travel Award in the field of Statistical Mechanics.

Lorenzo Caprini is a PhD student at Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), whose research is focused on the study of active matter systems. He is planning to present his work “Activity-Induced Delocalization and Freezing in Self-Propelled Systems” at the 27th International Conference on Statistical Physics (StatPhys 27, 8–12 July 2019, Buenos Aires, Argentina). The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs to be used to attend this conference.

With so many high-quality applicants, it was a very difficult decision, and we thank all the applicants. We wish to congratulate Mr. Lorenzo Caprini for his accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Entropy and on behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 Entropy Travel Award in the field of Thermodynamics.

Julian Gonzalez Ayala is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Salamanca, whose research interest involves general properties of thermodynamics systems, optimization and stability of operation regimes, thermal fluctuations, multi-objective optimization, optimization of hybrid power plants, and entropy analysis of complex systems and self-organized critical systems. He is planning to present his work “Thermodynamic Self-Improvement in the Stability of a Low Dissipative Refrigerator Engine” at the 15th Joint European Thermodynamics Conference (JETC2019, 21–24 May 2019, Barcelona, Spain). The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs to be used to attend this conference.

With so many high-quality applicants, it was a very difficult decision, and we thank all the applicants. We wish to congratulate Dr. Julian Gonzalez Ayala for his accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth, we are pleased to announce the Entropy Best Paper Award for 2018.

Papers published in 2017 were preselected by the Entropy Editorial Office based on the number of citations and downloads from the website. The winner nominations were made by a selection committee, which was chaired by the Editor-in-Chief and supported by twelve Editorial Board Members. The two top-voted papers, in no particular order, have won the 2018 Entropy Best Paper Award:

Critical Behavior in Physics and Probabilistic Formal Languages
Henry W. Lin and Max Tegmark
Entropy 2017, 19(7), 299; doi:10.3390/e19070299
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/7/299

Multiscale Information Decomposition:
Exact Computation for Multivariate Gaussian Processes
Luca Faes, Daniele Marinazzo and Sebastiano Stramaglia
Entropy 2017, 19(8), 408; doi:10.3390/e19080408
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/8/408

We congratulate and thank the authors for having chosen Entropy to publish their work.

In recognition of their accomplishment, the authors will collectively receive a cash award of 500 CHF, and the privilege of publishing an additional research article or review paper free of charge in open access format in Entropy after the usual peer-review procedure.

The Entropy Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to Entropy. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

The following referees have been selected to receive the “Entropy 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of their reviews in 2018 (in alphabetical order by surname)

Giuseppe Cavallaro
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy

Dina V. Dudina
Institute of Solid-State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry SB RAS, Russia

Konstantinos Giannakis
Ionian University, Greece

Anton M. Unakafov
University of Goettingen, Germany

Eiichi Watanabe
Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Japan

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief of Entropy
University at Albany, USA

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Entropy, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Entropy Travel Awards.

The awards were granted to PhD student Carlos Granero Belinchon at Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France, and PhD student Peishi Jiang from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Mr. Carlos Granero Belinchon obtained a Master’s Degree in Plasma Physics from Université Paris VI. He is currently writing a PhD thesis that combines physics and signal processing at the Physics Laboratory of the École Normale Supérieure.

Mr. Peishi Jiang’s research aims to quantify and characterize the causal interactions arising from information transferred along separable causal paths that affect a target variable, with a time series graphical model indicating the pathways of the interactions.

Both of them will present their work at the conference Entropy2018.

The award consists of 500 CHF and a waiver of the registration fee for the Entropy 2018 Conference.

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Entropy, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Young Investigator Award: The award was granted to Dr. Nicolai Friis, senior postdoc at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.

Nicolai Friis obtained his PhD in 2013 from the School of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Nottingham (UK). His PhD thesis was awarded the 2014 Václav Votruba Prize for best PhD thesis in theoretical physics. His PhD was followed by a postdoctoral position at IQOQI Innsbruck (2013/2014), and a University Assistant position at University of Innsbruck (2014-2017), both in the group of Hans J. Briegel. In 2017 he started a senior postdoc position in Marcus Huber’s group at IQOQI Vienna. Dr. Friis’s research interests lie in the overlap of quantum information and computation with quantum optics and quantum thermodynamics. Currently, his research is aimed at investigating the connections between resources for quantum computation, quantum metrology, and quantum thermodynamics, in particular the energy cost of creating correlations and entanglement, and the certification and quantification of entanglement under laboratory conditions.

The award consists of:

• 2500 Swiss Francs;
• The book Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by Edwin T. Jaynes;
• A commemorative plaque;
• A waiver of registration fees for and a presentation at the conference “Entropy 2018: From Physics to Information Sciences and Geometry” (https://sciforum.net/conference/Entropy2018-1).

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief

The Entropy Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to Entropy. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

The following referees have been selected to receive “Entropy 2017 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness and quality of their reviews in 2017 (in alphabetical order by surname)

Gabriela Huminic
Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

Douglas E. Lake
University of Virginia, USA

Matjaž Perc
University of Maribor, Slovenia

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief of Entropy
University at Albany, USA

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Entropy, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Entropy Travel Awards.

Travel Awards were granted to Ms. Gabriella Heller, Ph.D. student at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK and to Dr. David Gelbwaser, post-doctoral researcher at Center for Excitonics fellow and Aspuru-Guzik group, Harvard University, USA.

Ms. Gabriella Heller’s research is aimed at exploiting entropy to develop small molecules to therapeutically target disordered proteins associated with human disease. She is planning to present her work at the EUROMAR2017 conference.

Dr. David Gelbwaser’s research aims to understand what limits thermodynamics sets to the performance of quantum mechanical devices, particularly quantum heat machines and to show that quantum effects may enhance the performance of heat machines. He is planning to present his work at the conference Non-Markovianity and Strong Coupling Effects in Thermodynamics.

The awards consist of 800 Swiss Francs each to attend those specified academic conferences during 2017.

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor in Chief