NITheCS COLLOQUIA

NITheCS Colloquium 
‘The Changing Landscape of Financial Predictive Models’
Prof Tanja Verster (North-West University)
4 December 2023

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‘The Role of Science Centres in STEAM Education’
Dr Lungile Sitole (University of Johannesburg)
27 November 2023 

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‘A Century of Biophotons’
Dr Adriana Marais (Stellenbosch University)
20 November 2023 

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NITheCS Colloquium 
‘Probing the nature of many-body entanglement in quantum spin liquids: insights from lattice field theories’
Dr Aniekan Magnus Ukpong (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
13 November 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium 
‘What Makes Nanoporous Gold a Unique Catalyst? Insights from Modelling Studies of its Surface Chemistry’
Prof Lyudmila Moskaleva (University of the Free State)
6 November 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium 
‘Universality of the Elemental Abundances’
Prof Nico Orce (University of the Western Cape)
30 October 2023

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‘Simple Threads, Chaotic Weaves: Unravelling the Complex Tapestry of Nature’
Dr Sandra MacFadyen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Stellenbosch University)
23 October 2023

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‘The Financial Impact of Carbon Emissions on Power Utilities Under Climate Scenarios’
Prof Andrea Macrina (University College London & University of Cape Town)
20 October 2023

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‘The Future: Machine Learning in Cosmology and Astrophysics’
Dr Guo-Jian Wang (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
16 October 2023

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‘FEDGEN: A FEDerated GENeral ‘Omics’ Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Precision Medicine and Artificial Intelligence Research in Africa’
Prof Emmanuel Adetiba (Durban University of Technology & Covenant University, Nigeria)
9 October 2023

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‘Engaging in a digital educated world with large scale-projects’
Dr Christine Darve (European Spallation Source, Sweden)
2 October 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium 
‘Quantum machine learning with parameterized quantum circuits’
Dr Ryan Sweke (IBM Research)
18 September 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium 
‘Should we do applied Complex Systems Dynamics in primary school?’
Prof Fabio Dercole (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
11 September 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium 
‘Machine Learning Research Initiatives and Contributions from Africa: A Three-Decade Retrospective’
Prof Absalom Ezugwu (North-West University)
4 September 2023

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Colloquium, presented by NITheCS and the School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University
‘Cosmology and Computation: Challenges for Mapping the Early Universe’
Prof Martin Bucher (Laboratoire APC, Université Paris Cité/CNRS)
31 August 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium 
‘On what Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics do’
Prof Estate Khmaladze (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
30 August 2023 

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‘Big data: the South African strategy and implementation’
Dr Anwar Vahed (Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa)
21 August 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium 
‘Spatial Epidemiology’
Prof Inger Fabris-Rotelli (University of Pretoria)
14 August 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium 
‘Advantages and challenges of artificial intelligence for universities’
Dr Japie Greeff (North-West University)
7 August 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium 
‘A New Horizon for Teaching and Learning of Mathematics’
Prof Zurab Janelidze (Stellenbosch University)
31 July 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium 
Wetting and Nonwetting of Fluids
Prof Joseph Indekeu (KU Leuven, Belgium)
24 July 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium 
‘Approximating PDEs with wide neural networks’
Prof Sam Cohen (University of Oxford, UK)
21 July 2023 

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NITheCS Colloquium 
‘SOFR Term Structure Dynamics – Discontinuous Short Rates and Stochastic Volatility Forward Rates’ (joint work with Alan Brace and Karol Gellert)
Prof Erik Schlögl (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
14 July 2023 

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘Quantum Kernels: Challenges and Solutions’
Prof Alessandra Di Pierro (University of Verona, Italy)
3 July 2023 

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‘Black holes and nilmanifolds: quasinormal modes as the fingerprints of extra dimensions?’
Prof Alan Cornell (University of Johannesburg)
26 June 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium
Panel discussion: ‘Building a Sustainable Future: The Power of Basic Sciences’
Panelists: Mesias Alpheus (SU), MJ (Thinus) Booysen (SU), David Holgate (UWC), Guy Midgley (SU), Hugh Patterton (SU) and Ethel Phiri (SU)
19 June 2023

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‘South African Mathematical Sciences Research Landscape in 2050’
Prof Loyiso Nongxa (University of the Witwatersrand)
12 June 2023

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Big data and computational strategies in metabolomics studies
Dr Fidele Tugizimana (University of Johannesburg)
5 June 2023

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‘Towards Resolving Challenges Associated with Climate Change Modelling in the African Continent’
Prof Olugbenga Oluwagbemi (Middlesex University, UK)
29 May 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘Observations and the Damping of Gravitational Waves by Matter’
Prof Nigel Bishop (Rhodes University)
22 May 2023

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‘On Sublocales: Metric Sublocales and Property S’
Dr Cerene Rathilal (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
15 May 2023

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‘African Open Science Platform – Towards a Continental Open Science Vision’
Dr Tshiamo Motshegwa (African Open Science Platform)
8 May 2023

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‘Multi-Omics and Spatial Single Cell Methods for Precision Medicine of Blood Cancers’
Dr Wolfgang Huber (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany)
24 April 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium 
‘The mathematics of love’
Dr Pietro Landi (Stellenbosch University)
27 March 2023

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Colloquium, co-hosted by NITheCS and the Department of Physics at Stellenbosch University 
‘Open Quantum Systems’
Prof Marco Merkli (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
24 March 2023  |  12h00-13h00

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NITheCS Colloquium 
‘Categories, groups, and non-abelian algebraic structures’
Prof Marino Gran (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
20 March 2023

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Colloquium, co-hosted by NITheCS and the Department of Physics at Stellenbosch University 
‘Minimal operational approach to quantum non-Markovianity’
Dr Adrian Budini (Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina)
17 March 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium 
‘Tsetse, trypanosomiasis and climate change: Lessons from Field Data collected in the Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe’
Prof John Hargrove (South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis – SACEMA)
13 March 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium 
‘A Gentle Quantitative Modelling Approach for Rough Crude Oil Prices’
Dr Mesias Alfeus (Stellenbosch University)
6 March 2023

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Colloquium, co-hosted by NITheCS and Department of Physics, Stellenbosch University
‘Universal cooling dynamics toward a quantum critical point’
Emma King (University of Saarland, Germany)
3 March 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘Describing language: formal and empirical approaches’
Prof Menno van Zaanen (South African Centre for Digital Language Resources – SADiLaR)
27 February 2023

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Colloquium, co-hosted by NITheCS and Department of Physics, Stellenbosch University
‘Moving Towards Quantum Technologies: The Case of Quantum Batteries’
Prof Dario Rosa (Institute for Basic Science; University of Science & Technology, South Korea)
24 February
Venue: in person (Merensky 1011 (Physics Department), Stellenbosch University) and online

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘AI and Chess: A Retrospective and Future Story’
Ulrich Paquet (AIMS)
20 February 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium
What are the possible near field structures one can define over the multiplicative group of a near field? )
Dr Leandro Boonzaaier (SU) and Dr Sophie Marques (SU)
13 February 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (in the age of Machine Learning)
Prof Tommie Meyer (University of Cape Town)
6 February 2023

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Colloquium, cohosted by NITheCS and Department of Physics, Stellenbosch University
‘Solving nonlinear classification problems with a complex valued almost linear perceptron’
Prof Uwe Jaekel (Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
3 February 2023

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NITheCS Colloquium
Mathematical Contests in South Africa, Africa and the World
Dr Liam Baker (Stellenbosch University) and Phil Labuschagne (JIMCOBSA)
28 November 2022

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‘Goldilocks molecules in the Anthropocene’
Prof Guy Midgley (Stellenbosch University)
21 November 2022
This event aligns with a topic of the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘The origin of irreversibility in thermodynamic processes – or is ‘memory’ a new parameter for the physical state of matter?’
Prof Emil Roduner (University of Stuttgart and University of Pretoria)
14 November 2022

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‘Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development: a Global Perspective and a Year of Celebrations’
Prof Sandro Scandolo (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy)
7 November 2022
This event aligns with a topic of the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development

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