EVENTS HOSTED IN 2021

NITheCS Colloquium
“The potential for cervical cancer elimination in South Africa”
Dr Cari van Schalkwyk (SU)
Monday, 13 December 2021

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NITheCS Colloquium
“Two problems of nuclear structure in the sd shell”
Prof Steven Karataglides (UJ)
Monday, 6 December 2021, 16h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“Forecasting at the South African Weather Service”
Dr Mary-Jane Bopape (South African Weather Service)
Monday, 29 November 2021, 16h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“Knowledge Economies and the Future of Higher Education”
Dr Jonathan Blackledge (NWU)
Monday, 22 November 2021, 16h00

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NITheCS Webinar
“A kinetic theory of information transport”
Dr Fabio Anza (Templeton Independent Research Fellow, Complexity Sciences Center, University of California, Davis)
Friday, 19 November 2021, 18h30

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NITheCS Colloquium
“Picturing Quantum Software”
Prof Aleks Kissinger (Oxford University)
Monday, 15 November 2021, 16h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“Some Thoughts on Software Architecture”
Prof Fritz Solms (S-PLANE Automation / SU)
Monday, 8 November 2021, 16h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“The critical role of design thinking in artificial intelligence and machine learning applications”
Dr Mark Nasila (FirstRand Risk)
Monday, 25 October 2021, 16h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“Aligning student and educator capstone project preferences algorithmically”
Dr Japie Greeff (NWU)
Monday, 18 October 2021, 16h00

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2-Day Workshop
“Celebrating the 60th anniversary of Sudarshan’s paper on dynamical maps”
14 – 15 October 2021
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NITheCS Colloquium
“An invitation to visit the world of categories”
Dr Amartya Goswami (UJ)
Monday, 11 October 2021, 16h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“From density functional theory to machine learning”
Prof Regina Maphanga (CSIR)
Monday, 4 October 2021, 16h00

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Data@Breakfast
“The Carpentries: an open-access community”
Dr Angelique Trusler
1 October 2021, 07h30

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NITheCS Webinar
“Optimal quantum channels”
Prof Rocco Duvenhage (UP)
30 September 2021, 14h00 – 15h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“On the universality of the r-process (or why we see the same abundance of elements around us)”
Prof Nico Orce (UWC)
27 September 2021, 16h00 – 15h00

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Q&A Meeting for “NITheCS Call for Focus Areas”
Online Q&A session to discuss our “Call for Focus Areas: Request for pre-proposals”
9, 16 & 23 September 2021, 15h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“Locating SADiLaR as a strategic centre for developing computational resources for African languages in the Context of 4IR”
Prof Langa Khumalo (SADiLaR)
20 September 2021, 16h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“Genetic Algorithm in Domain of Intrusion Detection Systems”
Dr Sydney Kasongo (SU)
13 September 2021, 16h00

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Keynote address at AI Expo Africa 2021
“Quantum Computing for Sustainable Development”
Prof Francesco Petruccione (UKZN)
9 September 2021, 11h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“Machine Learning for Ecology”
Dr Emmanuel Dufourq (SU / AIMS / EdgeAcoustics)
6 September 2021, 16h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“South African species reference DNA databases: General gap analysis of vertebrates” 
Dr Monica Mwale (Zoological Research, Foundational Research & Services, SANBI National Zoological Gardens (NZG))
30 August 2021, 16h00 SAST

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QML Meetup
Join us for a quantum machine learning meetup, where we host QML researchers, hear about their work and follow up with a Q&A session.
Hsin-Yuan (Robert) Huang (Caltech)
26 August 2021, 19h00 SAST

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NITheCS Colloquium
“Lessons learned on SARS-CoV-2 genomics from GISAID”
Prof Erik Aurell (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden )
23 August 2021, 16h00 – 17h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“Theoretical Studies of Brookite TiO₂ as a Material for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells”
Dr Eric Maluta (University of Venda)
16 August 2021, 16h00 – 17h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“Designing Correct Algorithms”
Prof Ina Schaefer (Technical University of Braunschweig), Prof Bruce Watson (SU) & Tobias Runge (Technical University of Braunschweig)
Monday, 2 August 2021, 16h00

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Online lectures
“Data Science and Computational Thinking”
School for Data Science and Computational Thinking (SU)
26 – 30 July 2021, 14h00 – 16h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“Machine Learning for the Developing World: Towards a Research Agenda”
Prof Judy van Biljon (UNISA)
26 July 2021 at 16h00

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NITheCS Webinar
“Quantum non-Markovianity: an approach from Past-Future Correlations”
Dr Adrián Budini (Research Council of Argentina, Bariloche)
22 July 2021 at 14h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“Panel Discussion: Computation as a tool for solving theoretical questions​”
Prof Bruce Bassett (UCT), Prof Wolfram Decker (TU Kaiserslautern), Prof Barry Green (AIMS), Prof Bernardo Rodrigues (UP)
19 July 2021 at 16h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“Designing adaptive and cognitive computer systems in South Africa”
Prof Deshen Moodley (Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, UCT)
12 July 2021 at 16h00

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NITheCS Webinar
“Contribute to Statsomat and make Data Analysis automatically interpretable”
Dr Denise Welsch (Rey Analytical Research)
9 July 2021 at 14h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“The beauty of quantum mechanics”
Dr Laure Gouba (ICTP/Trieste, Italy)
5 July 2021 at 16h00

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NITheCS Webinar
“Eternal Adiabaticity and KAM-Stability”
Dr Daniel Burgarth (Macquarie University, Sydney)
2 July 2021 at 14h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“Transition from NITheP to NITheCS”
Prof Francesco Petruccione (NITheCS Interim Director)
Monday, 28 June 2021 at 16h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“The quantum basis of organic evolution”
Dr Ismael Galván (National Museum of Natural Sciences, Spain)
Friday, 25 June 2021 at 14h00

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NITheCS Webinar
“Towards essential nodes in a simple quantum network based on photons
and atomic ensembles”
Dr Bertus Jordaan (Data Scientist | Physics PhD | Quantum Information Technology)
Thursday, 17 June 2021 at 14h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“The case for the necessity to quantize the quantum gravitational field, or the lack of it”
Prof Erik Aurell (KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden)
Monday, 14 June 2021 at 16h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“The Ilifu Cloud Computing Facility X-Informatics Data Intensive Research”
Prof Mattia Vaccari (UWC)
7 June 2021 at 14h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“The promise of gravitational-wave astrophysics”
Prof Ilya Mandel (Monash University)
31 May 2021 at 11h00

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NITheCS Colloquium
“Symmetry in Field theory and Gravity”
Prof Daniel Harlow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
24 May 2021 at 16h00

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NITheP Colloquium
“Aim for the Sky but keep your feet on the ground”
Prof Nithaya Chetty (WITS)
17 May 2021 at 16h00

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NITheP Colloquium
“How atomic nuclei polarize?”
Prof Nico Orce (UWC)
10 May 2021 at 16h00

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NITheP Colloquium
“Statistical and Thermal models for heavy-ion collisions and astrophysics”
Prof Azwinndini Muronga (NMU), Ms Thuthukile Khumalo (WITS/iThemba LABS), Ms Khodani Mafune (University of Venda), Mr Bradley Nemutudi (University of Limpopo)
3 May 2021 at 16h00

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NITheP Colloquium
“Topology and Quantum Mechanics 50 Years Ago”
Prof Michael Laidlaw
26 April 2021 at 16h00

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NITheP Webinar
“Dilation based quantum algorithms for the time-evolution of open quantum systems​”
Dr Kade Head-Marsden  (Harvard University)
22 April 2021 at 14h00

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NITheP Mini-School
“Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods”
Prof Uwe Jaekel
6, 13 & 20 April 2021 at 15h00

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NITheP Colloquium
“High-Performance Computing: Insights from Condensed Matter and Materials
Physics​”
Dr Aniekan Magnus Ukpong (UKZN)
19 April 2021 at 16h00

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NITheP Colloquium – in celebration of World Quantum Day
“Tackling Particle Tracking with Quantum Computation​”
Prof Yasser Omar (University of Lisbon)
14 April 2021 at 14h00

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NITheP Colloquium
“Bose Fermi Dualities in 3 spacetime dimensions​”
Prof Shiraz Minwalla
12 April 2021 at 16h00

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NITheP Webinar
“Macro-to-micro quantum mapping and the emergence of nonlinearity”
Dr Paola Andrea Concha Obando
1 April 2021 at 14h00

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NITheP Colloquium
“On the universal constraints for relaxation rates for quantum dynamical
semigroup”
Prof Dariusz Chruscinski (Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University)
29 March 2021

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NITheP  Colloquium
“Nanofluid Dynamics and its Engineering Cooling Applications”
Prof Oluwule Daniel Makinde (Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University)
15 March 2021

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NITheP Colloquium
“Learning time: clocks and analogue machine learning” 
Prof Gerard Milburn (The University of Queensland, Australia)
8 March 2021

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NITheP Colloquium
“Towards a theory of quantum gravity”
Prof Ofer Aharony (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
1 March 2021

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The 11th CHPC Introductory Programming School 

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The 3rd NITheP Summer School on the Foundations of Theoretical and Computational Science

01 – 26 February 2021

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NITheP Colloquium
“Open Quantum Walks”
Prof Ilya Sinayskiy (UKZN)
22 February 2021

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NITheP Colloquium
“COVID19 situation in South Africa using new epidemiological models.”
Prof Nico Orce (UWC)
15 February 2021

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NITheP Colloquium
“Machine Learning and Quantum Mechanics for Many Interacting Particles”
Prof Morten Hjorth-Jensen (Michigan State University  & University of Oslo)
8 February 2021, 16h00

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NITheP Colloquium
“Putting the hair on black holes”
Prof Sera Markoff (University of Amsterdam)
25 January 2021, 16h00

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NITheP Webinar
“Unified master equation of weak-coupling limit type”
Dr Anton Trushechkin (Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences)
21 January 2021, 14h00

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