Stephan Weis
Max Planck Institute
for Mathematics in the Sciences
Inselstrasse 22
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany
Phone: ++49 (0) 341 9959 602
Fax: ++49 (0) 341 9959 555
Email: sweis@mis.mpg.de
Office: C 01
Postdoctoral Researcher in Information Theory and Convex Geometry.
• supported by the DFG research project
Quantenstatistik: Entscheidungsprobleme und entropische Funktionale auf Zustandsräumen
• member of the research group Information Theory of Cognitive Systems
| Part of my current research focuses on discontinuities in the maximum-entropy inference under linear constraints (for quantum state spaces modeled on finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces). Some results are summarized in a poster: |
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Short CV
Positions: | 10/2011 - 09/2013 |
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig |
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| 10/2010 - 09/2011 | Assistant Professor at the University of Erlangen | |||
| 09/2008 - 08/2010 | Temporary high-school teacher at the Ehrenbürg-Gymnasium in Forchheim | |||
| 12/2004 - 05/2008 | PhD student at the University of Erlangen (DFG position within the group Geometry and Complexity in Information Theory) | |||
Education: | 12/2009 |
PhD in Mathematics, University of Erlangen |
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| 10/2004 | Diploma in Mathematics, University of Erlangen | |||
| 10/2004 | MSc in Mathematics, University of Bristol (UK) | |||
Articles
Preprints
• Weis, S.: Continuous maximum-entropy inference and open quantum channels in finite dimensions link
• Weis, S.: Information Topologies on Non-Commutative State Spaces link
• Weis, S. and Knauf, A.: Entropy Distance: New Quantum Phenomena link
Publications
• Bengtsson, I., Weis, S. and Życzkowski, K.:
Geometry of the set of mixed quantum states: An apophatic approach link
(accepted for publication in Proceedings of the XXX WGMP)
• Weis, S.: Duality of non-exposed faces link
(accepted for publication in Journal of Convex Analysis)
• Weis, S.: A Note on Touching Cones and Faces link
(accepted for publication in Journal of Convex Analysis)
• Weis, S.: Quantum Convex Support link
Linear Algebra and its Applications Vol. 435 No. 12 pp. 3168-3188 (2011)
correction: ibid. Vol. 436 No. 1 p. xvi (2012)
• Voigt, I. and Weis, S.: Polyhedral Voronoi Cells link
Contributions to Algebra and Geometry Vol. 51 No. 2 pp. 587-598 (2010)
Academic Theses
• Doctoral thesis:
Exponential Families with Incompatible Statistics and Their Entropy Distance,
University of Erlangen (2009) link
• Diploma thesis: Invariants for the Ideal Boundary of a Tree,
University of Erlangen (2004) pdf file 660 kB
• Master thesis: Dynamics on Graphs,
University of Bristol (2004) pdf file 955 kB
Last modified on May 14, 2012