EVENTS HOSTED IN 2025

NITheCS Webinar
‘Reconstruction methods in cosmology’
Dr Konstantinos Dialektopoulos (University of Malta)
13 June 2025

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NITheCS Micro-school
‘Introduction to GitHub Actions’
Shane McFarthing (Stellenbosch University)
13 June 2025

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NITheCS Mini-school
‘Monitoring Biodiversity using Data Cubes: Techniques and Applications for Open Science’
Dr Sandra MacFadyen (Stellenbosch University) & Maarten Trekels (Stellenbosch University)
Wed 4, 11, 18 & 25 June 2025

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Lecture 1 (4 June)
Lecture 2 (11 June)
Lecture 3 (18 June)
Lecture 4 (25 June)

UKZN & NITheCS Seminar
‘The Quantum Side of the Universe’
Prof Gonzalo Olmo (University of Valencia, Spain)
10 June 2025

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NITheCS Mathematical Structures Mini-course
‘Symmetries of Differential Equations from the Point of View of Physics’
Dr Andronikos Paliathanasis (Catholic University of the North, Chile)
29 May & 10 June 2025

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Lecture 1 (29 May)
Lecture 2 (10 June)

NITheCS Colloquium
‘Quantum correlations in nuclear physics’
Prof Nico Orce (University of the Western Cape)
9 June 2025

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8th African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (ASESMA2025)
In-person School
9-20 June 2025

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UKZN & NITheCS Seminar
‘Aerosols in Earth’s Atmosphere: Volcanic origins and biomass burning in southern Africa’
Prof Hassan Bencherif (University of Réunion) & A/Prof Nelson Begue (University of Réunion)
5 June 2025

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FameLab Contest – NITheCS heat
3 & 4 June 2025   |  09h00-15h00 SAST

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘Harnessing social media to fight insect invasions: Social wasps as a case study’
Dr Ruan Veldtman (SANBI/Stellenbosch University)
2 June 2025  

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UKZN & NITheCS Seminar
‘On an infinite family of integral Cayley graphs of Pauli groups’
Dr Yanga Bavuma (University of Cape Town)
29 May 2025

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NITheCS Mini-school
‘An Introduction to Quantum Biology’
Dr Betony Adams (Stellenbosch University)
7, 14, 21 & 28 May 2025

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Lecture 1 (7 May)
Lecture 2 (14 May)
Lecture 3 (21 May)
Lecture 4 (28 May)

NITheCS & CoRE AI Masterclass
‘An Introduction to Graph Learning and Signal Processing’
Dr Fei He (Coventry University) & Stephan Goerttler (Coventry University)
27 May 2025

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘Multi-messenger Pulsar Astronomy’
Prof Christo Venter (North-West University)
26 May 2025

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QSUN, SAQuTI & NITheCS Seminar
‘Domain-Driven Applications of Quantum Machine Learning’
Dr Nouhaila Innan (New York University, Abu Dhabi)
23 May 2025

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘Deep learning topology’
Prof Vishnu Jejjala (University of the Witwatersrand)
19 May 2025

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UKZN & NITheCS Seminar
‘Relics of a Quantum Spacetime’
Prof Dawood Kothawala (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India)
19 May 2025 

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NITheCS Micro-school
‘Introduction to Note Taking with Obsidian’
Dean Brand (Stellenbosch University)
16 May 2025  

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NITheCS Webinar
‘Time Operator from Parametrization Invariance and Implications for Cosmology’
Prof Nikolaos Dimakis (University of the Frontier, Chile)
15 May 2025

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NITheCS Software Carpentry Workshop
‘Shell, Git, and Programming & Plotting in Python’
12-14 May 2025  

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘One Equation to ‘Rule’ Them All: A New Perspective on Einstein’s Field Equations’
Dr Andronikos Paliathanasis (Catholic University of the North, Chile)
12 May 2025

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SAMS’ Women in Mathematics (WiM) Division Talk
‘Permission to Stand Out’
Jillian Reilly
12 May 2025

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NITheCS & SU Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science Seminar
‘Last things first: Perspectives on First-year Data Science’
Dr Trudie Sandrock (Stellenbosch University)
9 May 2025

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UKZN & NITheCS Seminar
‘A black hole or Buchdahl star, or both?’
Prof Naresh Dadich (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), India)
8 May 2025

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘Statistics and Statisticians in Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence’
Dr Farai Mlambo (Wits Business School)
5 May 2025

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NITheCS & SU Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science Seminar
‘Compositional biplots for log ratio analysis and visualisation of milk fatty acids’
Dr Susan Laurens (Heineken Beverages)
25 April 2025

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NITheCS Mini-school
‘Machine Learning Applications in Climate Finance’
Dr Kamleshan Pillay (Stellenbosch University)
9, 16, 23 & 30 April 2025

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Lecture 1 (9 April)
Lecture 2 (16 April)
Lecture 3 (23 April)
Lecture 4 (30 April)

NITheCS & CoRE AI Masterclass
‘A Practical Introduction to Reinforcement Learning’
Prof James Brusey (Coventry University, UK)
17 April 2025  

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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 Mathematical Structures Seminar 
‘Matroids and their Interplay with Graphs’
Prof Nancy Ann Neudauer (Pacific University, USA)
14 April 2025

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33rd Chris Engelbrecht Summer School
‘Theoretical Foundations of Quantum Science and Quantum Technologies’
7-14 April 2025 (in person attendance) or 8-13 April 2025 (online attendance)

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PRESENTATIONS:

Marco Merkli:
Lecture 1 | Exercises
Lecture 2

NITheCS & SU Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science Seminar
‘COS Method for evaluating Barrier options under the Heston stochastic volatility model’
Dr Gcina Maziya (Stellenbosch University)
11 April 2025

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WITS & NITheCS Mathematical Structures Seminar 
TALK 1:
‘A Riesz spaces approach to ergodic theory’
Dr Marwa Masmoudi (Tunis El Manar University)

TALK 2:
‘Conditional indicators applied to arbitrage theory and pricing in mathematical finance’
Dr Dorsaf Cherif (Preparatory Institute for Engineering Studies, Tunisia)

10 April 2025

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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

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘The Physics of a Trillion Degrees’
A/Prof Will Horowitz (University of Cape Town)
31 March 2025

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QSUN, SAQuTI & NITheCS Seminar
‘Modeling and simulation of open quantum systems: purified pseudomode approach and its extensions‘
Dr Pengfei Liang (Inner Mongolia University)
28 March 2025 

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NITheCS & SU Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science Seminar
‘Benchmarking Benchmarks: A PBFJ Replication Study’
Katherine van der Merwe (Stellenbosch University)
28 March 2025 

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NITheCS Micro-school
‘Unlocking Earth Observation Data – Access and Analysis with Xarray Ecosystem Tools’
Marco Wolsza (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)
28 March 2025

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UKZN & NITheCS Seminar 
‘Coz-inclusions and the Čech-Stone compactification’
Ana Belén Avilez García (Chapman University, USA)
27 March 2025

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WITS & NITheCS Mathematical Structures Seminar 
TALK 1:
‘A generalisation of Riesz* homomorphisms on order unit spaces’
Florian Boisen (TU Dresden, Germany)

TALK 2:
‘Multimorphisms on order unit spaces’
Janko Stennder (TU Dresden, Germany)

27 March 2025

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NITheCS Mini-school 
‘Quantum Diagrams: An Introduction to the Graphical Language of ZX Calculus’
Dr Kishan Dayaram (Stellenbosch University)
12, 19 & 26 March 2025

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Lecture 1 (12 Mar)
Lecture 2 (19 Mar)
Lecture 3 (26 Mar)

NITheCS Colloquium
‘Implementation of a groundbreaking 12,900 km ultra-secure quantum satellite link between South Africa and China’
Dr Yaseera Ismail (Stellenbosch University)
24 March 2025

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MITP & NITheCS Seminar
‘Precision physics at the Large Hadron Collider’
Ass. Prof Raoul Röntsch (University of Milan, Italy, and INFN Milan)
18 March 2025

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘Lost or Found? Making Sense of South Africa’s Benchmark Rate Transition’
Prof Mesias Alfeus (Stellenbosch University)
17 March 2025

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘Quantum picturalism (and some interpretable AI, and some music)’
Prof Bob Coecke (Quantinuum, Oxford, UK)
14 March 2025

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NITheCS & SU Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science Seminar
‘Nonparametric estimation of the extreme quantiles of compound frequency distributions’
Prof Tertius de Wet (Stellenbosch University)
14 March 2025  

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UKZN & NITheCS Seminar 
‘The Graph Homotopy Mergegram’
Kavir Sumaraj (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
14 March 2025  

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NITheCS Micro-school
‘Introduction to Xarray: Empowering Multidimensional Data Analysis’
Marco Wolsza (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)
14 March 2025  

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NITheCS & CoRE AI Masterclass 
‘Qubits Uncovered: The Gateway to Quantum Computing’
Prof Francesco Petruccione (NITheCS and Stellenbosch University)
12 March 2025

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NITheCS Software Carpentry Workshop 
‘Shell, Git, Programming and Plotting in Python’
11, 12 & 14 March 2025

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NITheCS Public Lecture
‘The Life and Mathematical Contributions of Joseph Mokoena, South Africa’s First Black Mathematics PhD‘
Prof Loyiso Nongxa (WITS) and Dr Eder Kikianty (WITS)
10 March 2025

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International Day of Mathematics
‘Online event for undergraduate students and high school learners’
8 March 2025 

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘Bayesian Inference of regime-switching models’
Prof Ludger Overbeck (Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany)
3 March 2025

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NITheCS Micro-school
‘Introduction to Plotly: Creating Interactive Visualisations in Python’
Amy Rouillard (Stellenbosch University)
28 February 2025

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NITheCS & SU Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science Seminar
‘Non-parametric cure models through tail estimation’
Prof Jan Beirlant (KU Leuven, Belgium)
28 February 2025 

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MITP & NITheCS Seminar 
‘What we can learn from a growing sample of Fast Radio Bursts: A Cosmology Wishlist’
Prof Amanda Weltman (University of Cape Town)
27 February 2025

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NITheCS Data Carpentry Workshop
‘Ecology with Python’
24 & 25 February 2025

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘Quantum Computing: Challenges and Opportunities’
Dr Ryan Sweke (AIMS South Africa & Stellenbosch University)
24 February 2025

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NITheCS & SU Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science Seminar
‘Healthcare Serial Killer or Coincidence?’
Prof Jane L. Hutton (University of Warwick)
21 February 2025

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NITheCS & SU Category Theory Research Seminar
‘A Universal Kaluzhnin–Krasner Embedding Theorem’
Prof Xabier García Martínez (CITMAga & University of Vigo, Spain)
20 February 2025 

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

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12 February 2025
19 February 2025

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘Islamic tilings and their symmetries: Mathematics meets Art’
Prof Balázs Szendrői (University of Vienna, Austria)
17 February 2025

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UKZN & NITheCS Seminar
‘Strong lensing cosmology and the line of sight’
Daniel Johnson (CNRS, University of Montpellier, France)
13 February 2025

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘A Century of Quantum: From Foundations to the Future’
Prof Francesco Petruccione (NITheCS)
10 February 2025 

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QSUN, SAQuTI & NITheCS Seminar
‘Nonequilibrium quantum heat transport between structured environments’
Dr Graeme Pleasance (Stellenbosch University)
31 January 2025

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CHPC/NITheCS Coding Summer School 2025
‘The fundamentals of data science & scientific computing for research’
27 January – 7 February 2025

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MUST Deep Learning Bootcamp 2025
27-31 January 2025
Venues: NWU-Potchefstroom Engineering Campus and online

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘An Arts and Mathematics interaction based on paintings involving Ulam’s spiral’
Prof Stéphane Vinatier (University of Limoges, France)
27 January 2025

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QWorld Annual Meeting
25 January 2025

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QSUN, SAQuTI & NITheCS Seminar
‘Should we use parameterized quantum circuits for machine learning?’
Dr Ryan Sweke (AIMS South Africa & Stellenbosch University)
24 January 2025

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NITheCS Colloquium
‘The life of Alexander Grothendieck and modern algebraic arithmetic geometry’
Prof Bruno Chiarellotto (University of Padua, Italy)
20 January 2025

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7th Mandelstam Theoretical Physics School and Workshop 2025
‘Recent Developments in Analytical and Computational Holography’
9-15 January 2025
Venue: University of the Witwatersrand

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