Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics hosted the “Thermodynamics of Lattice Games and Randomness” seminar. Delivered by EMU Department of Physics graduate, Dr. Mehmet Süzen, the seminar received great interest from faculty members and students.
Completed his doctoral research at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main in Germany, Dr. Süzen conducted the seminar in which he extensively illustrated the relationship between zero-player lattice games and basic physical models, the Ising-Conway Entropy Game (ICEg) approach, how entropy production appears in lattice structures, and his new proposal called the “Gibbs randomness-compression proposition” in deep learning frameworks.
Graphs illustrating the ICEg model’s time-dependent diffusion, the entropy evolution under Metropolis and Glauber dynamics across different temperature conditions, and the compression-randomness correlation in modern machine learning algorithms were met with great interest during the presentation.
Faculty members and students from EMU Physics Department highly valued that the seminar featured physics-based insights into neural network models, especially in light of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. Attendees noted that Dr. Süzen’s bridging of physical systems and contemporary computational approaches could pave the way for new research directions. At the conclusion of the event, Dr. Süzen received a plaque of appreciation, and faculty members expressed their pride in his achievements as an EMU graduate contributing to the international scientific community. The Physics Department also confirmed that such interactive scientific events will continue to expand.
