Entropy Awards

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Entropy 2019 Travel Award in Information Theory field to support postdoctoral fellows or PhD students to attend a conference of their choice in 2019. 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 other two Travel Awards are: Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics. Applicants should choose only one Travel Award to apply for. Applicants applying to more than one award will be disqualified from all awards.

Candidates’ Requirements:

• Applicants must be postdoctoral fellows (up to 3 years) or PhD students involved in research fields related to Information Theory.
• Applicants will attend an international conference in 2019 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 the award here by 28 February 2019. The winner will be announced by 31 March 2019.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Entropy 2019 Travel Award in Statistical Mechanics field to support postdoctoral fellows or PhD students to attend a conference of their choice in 2019. 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 other two Travel Awards are: Information Theory and Thermodynamics. Applicants should choose only one Travel Award to apply for. Applicants applying to more than one award will be disqualified from all awards.

Candidates’ Requirements:

• Applicants must be postdoctoral fellows (up to 3 years) or PhD students involved in research fields related to Statistical Mechanics.
• Applicants will attend an international conference in 2019 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 the award here by 28 February 2019. The winner will be announced by 31 March 2019.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Entropy 2019 Travel Award in Thermodynamics field to support postdoctoral fellows or PhD students to attend a conference of their choice in 2019. 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 other two Travel Awards are: Statistical Mechanics and Information Theory. Applicants should choose only one Travel Award to apply for. Applicants applying to more than one award will be disqualified from all awards.

Candidates’ Requirements:

• Applicants must be postdoctoral fellows (up to 3 years) or PhD students involved in research fields related to Thermodynamics.
• Applicants will attend an international conference in 2019 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 the award here by 28 February 2019. The winner will be announced by 31 March 2019.

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.

With our inaugural issue published in 1998, 2018 marks Entropy’s 20th anniversary. To celebrate the 20-year anniversary, the Editorial Board is proud to announce a Best Paper Award to acknowledge the authors’ support and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments. We hope this award will encourage the publishing of high-quality papers in the journal.

For the 2018 Best Paper Awards, papers published between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2017 are eligible to compete for the award. Based on a thorough evaluation by the journal award committee, two papers (research or review articles) will receive an award.

Selection criteria:

• Editors seek to recognize innovative or creative papers with transparent, reproducible, rigorous, and relevant science. The quality and clarity of the presentation will be considered, as will the potential impact of the paper in its field.
• Open to all age groups and career levels.
• Editors will nominate papers for consideration according to the following criteria:

• Scientific rigor
• Significance
• Originality

Prizes:

Two final winners will be selected. Each winner will receive a certificate, a cash award of 500 CHF, and an offer to publish a paper free-of-charge in Entropy (a value of 1600 CHF). The winners will be announced around the end of December 2018.

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