Upcoming Events: Seminar Announcement

On the Universe's Cybernetics Duality Behavior

Date and Time: Dec 11, 2014, 2:30-4:00pm
Location: 1P-119 (Lecture Hall)
Speaker: Prof. Erlan H. Feria, Department of Engineering Science and Physics, CSI
College of Staten Island of The City University of New York 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, New York 10314

Abstract

On November 10th, 2014 the New York Times reported on major prizes given to scientists [1]. Of the contributions leading to these prizes some physicists made use of mathematical dualities that are said to "offer physicists the chance of going around intractable problems of calculation in one system by solving the easier equations in another." This New York Times article also reports that the use of these dualities has become "a cottage industry in physics today." In my seminar I will be reviewing work on the universal cybernetics (UC) duality principle, which I discovered in 1978 in control theory while conducting graduate research on cybernetics [2]. UC is the study of control and communications in living and non-living systems. Its duality principle states that, "synergistic physical and mathematical dualities naturally arise in efficient system designs." The UC duality principle uses both mathematical and physical dualities for going around intractable problems of calculation not only in physics [3] but also in control [2], radar [4] and biological lifespan [5]. The very latest solutions derived by the UC duality principle will be reviewed, inclusive of the nascent linger thermo theory [3], which has inherently led to a sensible and straightforward relationship between biological lifespan and specific heat-capacity.

1. Dennis Overbye, "Scientists, and Universe's Odd Behavior, Are Recognized With $3 Million Prizes ". The New York Time. Nov 10th, 2014 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/us/scientists-and-universes-odd-behavior-are-recognized-with-dollar3-million-prizes.html
2. E. H. Feria, Matched Processors for Optimum Control, CUNY Graduate Center PhD [1981], E. H. Feria,  “Mathematical Model for Central Nervous System (CNS) Mechanisms that Control Movements,” N.Y.U. Medical Center Grant, RF-CUNY, [1981], E. H. Feria, “Matched processors for quantized control: A practical parallel processing approach,” International Journal of Controls, vol. 42, issue 3, pp. 695-713, doi:10.1080/0020717850893339, [1985]
3. E. H. Feria, “Latency information theory and applications: Part III. On the discovery of the space-dual of the laws of motion in physics,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 6982, pp. 698212(1-16), doi:10.1117/12.784551, [2008], E. H. Feria, “Latency information theory: Novel lingerdynamics ectropies are revealed as time-duals of thermodynamics entropies”, Proc. IEEE Int’l Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, doi:10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6084191, [2011], E. H. Feria, “Linger thermo theory, Part I: The dynamics dual of the stationary entropy/ectropy based latency information theory,” Proc. IEEE Int’l Conf. on Cybernetics, Lausanne, Switzerland, doi:10.1109/CYBConf. 2013.6617424, [2013]  http://feria.csi.cuny.edu/pubs.html
4. E. H. Feria, “Power centroid radar and its rise from the universal cybernetics duality,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 9120. pp. 912007(1-29), doi.org/10.1117/12.2059153, May, [2014]. E. H. Feria, “Maximizing the efficiency and affordability of high-performance radar,” SPIE Newsroom, doi:10.1117/ 2.1201407.005429, July 7, [2014] (Both Invited Articles)  http://feria.csi.cuny.edu/pubs.html
5. E. H. Feria, The flexible phase entropy and its rise from the universal cybernetics duality, Proc. IEEE Int’l Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, San Diego, CA, USA, Oct. 4-8, [2014], E. H. Feria, Method for setting a life insurance premium, US Patent (Number Pending)