Entropy of Hidden Markov Processes and Connections to Dynamical Systems
Papers from the Banff International Research Station Workshop

Editors

Brian Marcus, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Brian Marcus is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and was co-recipient of the Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award of the IEEE Communications Society in 1993. He has published over 60 research papers and holds 12 US patents.

Karl Petersen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Karl Petersen is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has previously written the book Ergodic Theory (Cambridge, 1983) and numerous research papers.

Tsachy Weissman, Stanford University, California
Tsachy Weissman is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, California and at the Technion. He is a recipient of the joint Information Theory - Communication Society best paper award, a Horev Fellowship for Leaders in Science and Technology and the Henry Taub Prize for excellence in research. He currently serves as Associate Editor of Shannon Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

Contributors

Mark Boyle, Karl Petersen, Jean-René Chazottes, E. Ugalde, Guangyue Han, Brian Marcus, Yuval Peres, Erik Ordentlich, Tsachy Weissman, Anthony Quas, Henry Pfister, Mark Pollicott, Thomas Kempton, Evgeny Verbitskiy