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:
NITheCS Colloquium
‘A Quantum Celebration on World Quantum Day’
14 April 2025
TALK 1: ‘Quantum Technology: what it is, origins and future – a personal view’
Prof Barry Garraway (University of Sussex, UK)
TALK 2: ‘Brain on a Quantum’
Prof Menica Dibenedetto (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
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NITheCS Colloquium
‘What lurks in the dark? Gravitation and other tense cosmic stories’
Prof Amare Abebe (North-West University)
7 April 2025
ABSTRACT | VIEW TALK | VIEW PRESENTATION
NITheCS Colloquium
‘Top-10 South African Fine Wines: To drink or to invest?’
Dr Mesias Alfeus (Stellenbosch University)
5 August 2024
NITheCS Colloquium
‘Panel discussion and Q&A on African Artificial Intelligence’
Dr Mark Nasila (First National Bank), Prof Bruce Bassett (University of Cape Town), Prof Kanshukan Rajaratnam (Stellenbosch University), Prof Brian Ganson (Stellenbosch University) and Prof Francesco Petruccione (NITheCS)
22 July 2024
NITheCS Colloquium
‘Postdoctoral research fellows at South African public universities: Key findings from a national study’
Prof Heidi Prozesky (Stellenbosch University)
20 May 2024
NITheCS Colloquium
‘Quantum Physics and Biology: the Local Wavefunction Approach’
Prof George Ellis, FRS (University of Cape Town)
11 March 2024
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
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
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
NITheCS Colloquium
‘Big data: the South African strategy and implementation’
Dr Anwar Vahed (Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa)
21 August 2023
ABSTRACT | VIEW | SLIDES | NATIONAL STRATEGY
NITheCS Colloquium
‘A New Horizon for Teaching and Learning of Mathematics’
Prof Zurab Janelidze (Stellenbosch University)
31 July 2023
ABSTRACT | VIEW | SLIDES: multi-media version / PDF
NITheCS Colloquium
Panel discussion: ‘Building a Sustainable Future: The Power of Basic Sciences’
Panelists: Mesias Alfeus (SU), MJ (Thinus) Booysen (SU), David Holgate (UWC), Guy Midgley (SU), Hugh Patterton (SU) and Ethel Phiri (SU)
19 June 2023
NITheCS Colloquium
‘South African Mathematical Sciences Research Landscape in 2050’
Prof Loyiso Nongxa (University of the Witwatersrand)
12 June 2023
ABSTRACT | VIEW | PRESENTATION
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
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