Some Research Groups Working with Entropy

In no particular order:

• The Caltech Communications Group in the Electrical Engineering Department at Caltech.
  
• The Information Systems Laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford.
  
• The Information Theory Research Group in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota.
  
• The Entropy Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand.
  
• The Information and Communication Theory Group in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
  
• ODIN Communications Group (in dutch) at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
  
• The Information Theory Group at the Technical University of Budapest.
  
• The Santa Fe Institute sponsors research on complex systems.
• The Schneider Lab (Laboratory of Computational and Experimental Biology, National Institutes of Health) uses information theory to study transcriptases and gene recognition sites.
  
• The Centre for Quantum Compuation at the Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, Oxford University. They study physics of information, in particular quantum computation and communication, quantum phenomena such as quantum entanglement and interference in the context of new modes of computation. They are interested in computational complexity of quantum computers and investigate practicalities of quantum computation. The site eatures several expository sketches. You may also wish to visit the Quantum Information Page maintained by John Smolin of the UCLA Particle Beam Physics Lab, which has many links to on-line papers in this area.
  
• The Center for Advanced Studies in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of New Mexico. Research interests include information physics and nonequilibrium statistical physics.
  
• The OSCAR Research Project at the Goddard Space Flight Center uses a maximal entropy method to "sharpen" the misfocused images obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope. Check out the nifty movie which illustrates how this works!
  
• The CEMS Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory also works with maximal entropy methods. If you use maxent, you should read their critique of one of the most popular maxent techniques. You can also find here an expository article on maxent method for tomography, which features an explanation of "suprisal analysis", and some interesting pictures.
  
• The Thermodynamics Research Laboratory deals with statistical mechanics, state equations, phase transitions and applications.
  

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