Dear students, dear colleagues

Please join for the following lecture.

With best regards,

Gianni Blatter

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Date: March 8, 2012

Place: HIT H 42

Time: 17:15 

Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich

According to a quote by the physicist Rolf Landauer, "information is physical". By this, he meant that information could not exist without a physical information carrier (such as the ink on a piece of paper).  Information may therefore be studied from a "physical perspective". The development of Quantum Information Theory, which accounts for the fact that any physical information carrier ultimately obeys the laws of quantum mechanics, is one of the consequences of this approach. Very recently, however, researchers have started to take a converse approach, studying physics from an "information-theoretic perspective". This leads to interesting novel insights, a selection of which I will present in this talk.