Entropy
Editors and Editorial Board
Virtual Editorial Center
Editorial
Office
Mr. Dietrich Rordorf, Ms Felicity Wright, Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
Entropy Editorial
Office,
MDPI, Kandererstrasse 25, CH 4057 Basel Switzerland
Tel. +41 683 7734, Fax +41 61 302 8918; E-mail: [email protected]
Ms. Tina Wang (Editorial Assistant,
Beijing Editorial Office)
Dr. Francis F. Muguet (France, Assistant Editor)
Dr. Derek J. McPhee (USA, English
corrections)
Editor-in-Chief
Dr.
Peter Harremoës
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Kruislaan
413,
NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: +31
20 592 42 72
E-mail: [email protected]
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ph/
Keywords: symmetry,
information divergence, cause and effect, Maxwell's
demon, probability and statistics
Editorial Board
Prof.
Dr. Jacob
Bekenstein
Polak Professor of Theoretical Physics, Racah Institute of
Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem,
91904; Israel
Office: Kaplun 106
Phone: 972 (0)2 658 4374; Fax: 972 (0)2 5611519
Email:
[email protected]
http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/~bekenste/
Keywords: 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
E-mail:
[email protected]
Keywords: Optical sciences, Atomic and Molecular
physics,
Coherent control
Prof. Dr. Phil 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
E-mail:
[email protected]
Keywords:
Concepts of Entropy
and Their Applications
Prof. Dr. Ariel Caticha
Department of Physics, University at Albany, Albany NY 12222, USA
Phone: (518)442-4592
FAX: (518)442-5260
E-mail:
[email protected]
Home page: http://www.albany.edu/physics/ariel_caticha.htm
Keywords: entropy; information
physics; foundations of quantum physics, statistical physics and
general relativity; information geometry; Bayesian inference.
Dr. Laurance R. Doyle
Principal Investigator
Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe
SETI Institute, 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, California, 94043
Tel. (650) 960-4533
E-mail:
[email protected]
Keywords: 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
Dr.
Remo Garattini
Faculty of Engineering, University of Bergamo, Viale Marconi 5, 24044
Dalmine (Bergamo), Italy
Tel: +39-035-2052320, Fax: +39-035-562779
E-mail:
[email protected]
Keywords:
quantum gravity,
quantum cosmology, quantum field theory
Prof. Dr. Alexander Gorban
Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH,
UK.
Email -
[email protected]
http://www.math.le.ac.uk/people/ag153/
Telephone - +44 (0) 116 223 14 33
Keywords: neural
networks,chemical and biological kinetics, Human adaptation to hard
living conditions, Methods and technologies of collective thinking
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
E-mail:
[email protected]
http://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/bgc-theory/index.php?n=Group.AxelKleidon
Keywords:
biodiversity; maximum entropy production; thermodynamics and optimality
to human activity in the climate system; gaia hypothesis; global
dynamic vegetation models
Dr. Donald J. Jacobs
Associate Professor of Physics, 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
E-mail:
[email protected]
Home page:
www.physics.uncc.edu/physstaff/djacobs/
Keywords: computational
physics, biological physics, protein stability, phase transitions,
Brownian motion
Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Department of Physics, University at Albany, Albany NY 12222, USA
Phone: +1-518-442-4653
FAX: +1-518-442-5260
E-mail:
[email protected]
http://knuthlab.rit.albany.edu/
Keywords: entropy, probability
theory, Bayesian, foundational issues, lattice theory, data analysis,
maxent, machine learning, robotics, information theory
Prof. Dr.
Frank C. Krysiak
University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics, Environmental
Economics, Petersgraben 51, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
Phone: +41 61 267 33 60; Fax: +41 61 267 27 59;
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Keywords:
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, Europe
Tel. +43-1-58801-15350, Fax. +43-1-58801-16299
E-mail:
[email protected]
http://www2.ias.tuwien.ac.at/iaspb/pers_e.php?pid=866433
Keywords: 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
E-mail:
[email protected]
Keywords: 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. Robert Niven
Marie Curie Incoming International Fellow, H.C. Ørsted
Institute, Niels Bohr Institute, Københavns Universitet,
Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Senior Lecturer,
School of Aerospace, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, The University
of New South Wales at ADFA, Northcott Drive, Canberra ACT 2600,
Australia,
E-Mail:
[email protected]
http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/acme/staffpages/niven.html
Keywords: Entropy,
probability theory and information theory; Boltzmann principle; Jaynes'
MaxEnt and its scientific, engineering and social applications
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
E-mail:
[email protected]
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~nieuwenh/
Keywords: 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
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Michael Nosonovsky
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology,
Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken, NJ 07030,
Tel. +1-201-216-8778; Fax. +1-201-216-8315
E-Mail:
[email protected],
[email protected]
Keywords:
nanotribology,
multiscale mechanisms of dissipation, capillary, instabilities,
biotribology, contact mechanics
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
E-mail:
[email protected],
[email protected]
http://www.ime.usp.br/~cpereira
Keywords:
Bayesian inference,
foundations of Statistics, significance, evidence, Bayesian analysis of
discrete data (BADD)
Dr. Joe Rosen
338 New Mark Esplanade, Rockville MD 20850-2734, USA
Phone & fax: +1-301-610-7666
E-mail: [email protected]
Keywords: symmetry, Curie principle, space, time,
spacetime,
quantum
Dr
Stanley (Stan) N.
Salthe
HCR 86, 228 Laurel Bank Avenue, Deposit, New York 13754, USA
Fax: 607-467-2200
E-mail: [email protected]
http://www.nbi.dk/~natphil/salthe/index.html
Keywords: 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
E-mail:
[email protected]
http://leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/stutzer/
Keywords: Kullback-Leibler, large deviations,
finance,
economics, Esscher Transform
Prof. Bernard Testa
Service de Pharmacie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, CHUV -
BH 04, 46 rue du Bugnon, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel. +41 21 314 4237; Fax +41 21 314 4992,
E-mail:
[email protected]
http://www-ict.unil.ch/index.html
Keywords: 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, Japan
Tel & Fax: +81-422-33-3367
E-mail:
[email protected]
Keywords: 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
E-mail:
[email protected]
http://www.math.unipd.it
Keywords:quantum gravity, quantum cosmology, quantum
information
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Dr. Shu-Kun Lin,
Founding
Editor-in-Chief. Also served as Editor-in-Chief in January
1999-June 2003 and
July 2006-July
2008
MDPI,
Matthaeusstrasse
11, CH 4057 Basel Switzerland
Tel. +41 683 7734, Mobile +41 79 322 3379, Fax +41 61 302 8918 , Skype
mdpibasel-lin
E-mail:
[email protected]
http://www.mdpi.org/lin
Keywords: Gibbs paradox,
irreversibility, stability, symmetry,
information theory, diversity, similarity, molecular recognition
Dr. Michel Petitjean served as
the
Editor-in-Chief during July
2003-
June 2006