NITheCS COLLOQUIA

NITheCS hosts regular colloquia. Local and international speakers are invited to present an aspect of their work to the NITheCS community. There is an opportunity thereafter to pose questions to the speaker and network with other audience members online.

Our Associates are also welcome to suggest speakers for upcoming colloqiua. If you would like to present, or nominate someone to present, please send us an email.  

Below is a list of our past colloquia:

Dr Tanja Verster

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

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Dr Lungile Sitole

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

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Dr Adriana Marais

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

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Dr Aniekan Magnus Ukpong

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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Prof Lyudmila Moskaleva

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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Prof Nico Orce

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

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Dr Sandra MacFadyen

NITheCS Colloquium  
‘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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Prof Andrea Macrina

NITheCS Colloquium  
‘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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Guo-Jian Wang

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

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Prof Emmanuel Adetiba

NITheCS Colloquium  
‘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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Dr Christine Darve

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

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Dr Ryan Sweke

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

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Prof Fabio Dercole

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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Prof Absalom Ezugwu

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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Prof Martin Bucher

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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Prof Estate Khmaladze

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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Dr Anwar Vahed

NITheCS Colloquium 
‘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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Dr Inger Fabris-Rotelli

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

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Dr Japie Greeff

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

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Prof Zurab Janelidze

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

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Prof Joseph Indekeu

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

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Prof Sam Cohen

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

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Prof Erik Schlögl

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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Prof Alessandra Di Pierro

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

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Prof Alan Cornell

NITheCS Colloquium
‘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 panel discussion

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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Prof Loyiso Nongxa

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

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Dr Fidele Tugizimana

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

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Olugbenga Oluwagbemi

NITheCS Colloquium
‘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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Prof Nigel Bishop

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

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Dr Cerene Rathilal

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

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Prof Nigel Bishop

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

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Dr Wolfgang Huber

NITheCS Colloquium
‘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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Dr Pietro Landi

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

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Prof Marco Merkli

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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Prof Marino Gran

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

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Dr Adrian Budini

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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Prof John Hargrove

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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Dr Mesias Alfeus

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

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Emma King

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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Prof Menno van Zaanen

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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Prof Dario Rosa

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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Dr Ulrich Paquet

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

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Dr Leandro Boonzaaier and Dr Sophie Marques

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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Prof Tommie Meyer

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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Prof Uwe Jaekel

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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Dr Liam Baker and Phil Labuschagne

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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Prof Guy Midgley

NITheCS Colloquium
‘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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Prof Emil Roduner
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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Prof Sandro Scandolo

NITheCS Colloquium
‘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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