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WELCOME TO NITheCS

The National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS) is a multidisciplinary and multi-themed Institute in South Africa. NITheCS seeks to build human and research capacity in the Theoretical and Computational Sciences, and enhance scientific innovation, transformation and socio-economic development both locally and in Africa.

NITheCS’ fields of science

NITheCS encompasses the following fields of science, as well as their interdisciplinary fields:

  1. Astronomy & Astrophysics
  2. Bioinformatics & Quantitative Biology
  3. Data Science
  4. Earth Systems Modelling & Climate Change Modelling
  5. Mathematics
  6. Quantitative Finance
  7. Statistics
  8. Theoretical Physics
Fields of science that NITheCS represents

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Prof Francesco Petruccione

NITheCS Colloquium
‘A Century of Quantum: From Foundations to the Future’
Prof Francesco Petruccione (NITheCS)
Monday, 10 February 2025  |  16h00-17h00 SAST
Venues: Online and Neelsie Cinema, Stellenbosch University

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Balázs Szendrői

NITheCS Mini-school
‘Graded rings in projective geometry’
Prof Balázs Szendrői (University of Vienna, Austria)

Two lectures:
Wed, 12 Feb 2025  |  14h00-16h00 SAST
Wed, 19 Feb 2025  |  15h00-17h00 SAST

Venues: Online and Room 1006, Mathematics/Industrial Psychology Building, Stellenbosch University

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Daniel Johnson

UKZN & NITheCS Seminar
‘Strong lensing cosmology and the line of sight’
Daniel Johnson (CNRS, University of Montpellier, France)
Thursday, 13 February 2025  |  12h15-13h15 SAST
Venues: Online and NITheCS Seminar Room, University of KwaZulu-Natal – Westville Campus, 3rd Floor, H-Block, School of Chemistry and Physics

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Balázs Szendrői

NITheCS Colloquium
‘Islamic tilings and their symmetries: Mathematics meets Art’
Prof Balázs Szendrői (University of Vienna, Austria)
Monday, 17 February 2025  |  16h00-17h00 SAST
Venues: Online and Neelsie Cinema, Stellenbosch University

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Dr Ryan Sweke

NITheCS Colloquium
‘Quantum Computing: Challenges and Opportunities’
Dr Ryan Sweke (AIMS South Africa & Stellenbosch University)
Monday, 24 February 2025  |  16h00-17h00 SAST
Venues: Online and Neelsie Cinema, Stellenbosch University

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Prof Ludger Overbeck

NITheCS Colloquium
‘Bayesian Inference of regime-switching models’
Prof Ludger Overbeck (Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany)
Monday, 3 March 2025  |  16h00-17h00 SAST
Venues: Online and Neelsie Cinema, Stellenbosch University

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Prof Mesias Alfeus

NITheCS Colloquium
‘Lost or Found? Making Sense of South Africa’s Benchmark Rate Transition’
Prof Mesias Alfeus (Stellenbosch University)
Monday, 17 March 2025  |  16h00-17h00 SAST
Venues: Online and Neelsie Cinema, Stellenbosch University

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ACP2025

4th African Conference on Fundamental and Applied Physics (ACP2025)
14-20 September 2025
Venues: Online and University of Lome, Togo

MORE INFO  |  REGISTER (by 13 Sep)  |  SUBMIT ABSTRACT (by 31 Mar)

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Research Visit to Australia

Research Visit to Australia

Prof Mesias Alfeus (Stellenbosch University) reflects on his research visit to Australia from 9 to 26 December 2024, which he found ‘immensely rewarding, both academically and professionally.’

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Building future-ready researchers

Building future-ready researchers

Students share their experiences of the 15th CHPC & 7th NITheCS Coding Summer School (CSS), highlighting the impact of this two-week annual school on their academic and research journeys.

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Internships impact SA science

South Africa has a huge shortage of postgraduate statisticians, mathematicians and physicists. But initiatives such as the national expansion of the annual internship led by NITheCS are addressing this.

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Science-related anniversary: the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev was born on 8 February 1834. HIs great legacy was the periodic table. On 6 March 1869, he made a formal presentation to the Russian Chemical Society, titled 'The Dependence between the Properties of the Atomic Weights of the Elements', describing elements according to atomic weight (now called relative atomic mass) and valence.
Revisions of his concept included that of physicist Niels Bohr (1922), who added elements discovered after 1869 - but it was still, in essence, the periodic arrangement of Mendeleev. Read more about the history here: www.sciencenews.org/article/periodic-table-history-chemical-elements-150-anniversary
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Science-related anniversary: the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev was born on 8 February 1834.  HIs great legacy was the periodic table. On 6 March 1869, he made a formal presentation to the Russian Chemical Society, titled The Dependence between the Properties of the Atomic Weights of the Elements, describing elements according to atomic weight (now called relative atomic mass) and valence. 
Revisions of his concept included that of physicist Niels Bohr  (1922), who added elements discovered after 1869 - but it was still, in essence, the periodic arrangement of  Mendeleev. Read more about the history here: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/periodic-table-history-chemical-elements-150-anniversaryImage attachmentImage attachment

UKZN & NITheCS Seminar: ‘Strong lensing cosmology and the line of sight' - Daniel Johnson (CNRS, University of Montpellier, France) - Thurs, 13 Feb 2025 @ 12h15-13h15 SAST. Register to attend online or in person. mailchi.mp/nithecs/dj-20250213 #cosmology #astrophysics #lensing ... See MoreSee Less

UKZN & NITheCS Seminar: ‘Strong lensing cosmology and the line of sight - Daniel Johnson (CNRS, University of Montpellier, France) - Thurs, 13 Feb 2025 @ 12h15-13h15 SAST. Register to attend online or in person. https://mailchi.mp/nithecs/dj-20250213 #cosmology #astrophysics #lensing

'Science quote of the day: 'A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.' - Godfrey Harold Hardy, English mathematician, born 7 February 1877 ... See MoreSee Less

Science quote of the day: A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. - Godfrey Harold Hardy, English mathematician, born 7 February 1877

NITheCS Mini-school: 'Graded rings in projective geometry' - Prof Balázs Szendrői (University of Vienna, Austria) - Wed, 12 Feb @ 14h00-16h00 & 19 Feb @ 15h00-17h00 SAST. Register to attend online or in person. mailchi.mp/nithecs/mini-school-202502 #mathematics #geometry #algebra ... See MoreSee Less

NITheCS Mini-school: Graded rings in projective geometry - Prof Balázs Szendrői (University of Vienna, Austria) - Wed, 12 Feb @ 14h00-16h00 & 19 Feb @ 15h00-17h00 SAST. Register to attend online or in person. https://mailchi.mp/nithecs/mini-school-202502 #mathematics #geometry #algebra
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