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Seminars

The Centre hosts weekly seminars on Friday mornings during the academic year from mid-February to mid-November. Check out our events calendar with information on how to connect to these sessions online in real time.

Should you be interested in giving a research seminar or a session on a “hot topic” public lecture style session, please complete the CoE-MaSS Expression of Interest form. You can find out more about presenting a seminar with us in our CoE-MaSS Invitation letter. We record our seminars, and the videos for these can be found on the CoE-MaSS YouTube channel or below.

Siphokazi Gatyeni - Application of optimal control to the dynamics of COVID-19 disease in South Africa
Maba Boniface Matadi - On the Hidden Lie Symmetry of the SIRD Epidemic Model
Prince Nchupang - Summation-by-parts and simultaneous approximation term framework for IBVP
Priyanka Nagar - Modelling multivariate biomechanical data with a circular - linear model
Lucy Campbell - Mathematical studies of multi-scale atmospheric wave interactions
Thomas Farrar - Enrolment and graduate trends in Mathematical Sciences at South African Universities
Ali Raza - From Symmetries Classification via the Optimal System to Double Reduction via Conservation Laws for a Class of PDEs
Johane Nienkemper Swanepoel and Zoe-Mae Adams - Multiple correspondence analysis biplot applications: Missing data and text analysis
Stephan van der Westhuizen - Statistical modelling in soil mapping opportunities and research avenues
Carlos A Coelho - An outlier test for the high-dimensional case
Jacek Banasiak - Direct Lyapunov method: known and less known
Bruce Bartlett - The quintic, the icosahedron, and the elliptic curves
Anke Kalauch - Reisz homomorphisms and structure preserving operators on ordered vector spaces
Sameerah Jamal - Symmetry transformations of parabolic equations
Syamala Krishnannair - Process monitoring using Singular Spectrum Analysis and Its Variant
Amlan Halder - Symmetries and Solutions of (1+3)-Dimensional Rossby Wave
Warren Brettenny - An overview of select statistical applications in renewable energy research
Keegan Anderson - Dynamics of an asymmetric wedge billiard in a constant gravitational field
Gary Sharp - Optimisation algorithms for relay team selection in aquatics
Sophie Marques - Exploring the Intricacies of Polynomial Equations: A Journey into Mathematical Connections
Cerene Rathilal - Community Development and Science Engagement
Azam Kheyri - New Sparse Estimator for High-Dimensional Precision Matrix Estimation
Michele Dougherty - JUICE, the European Space Agency Mission to Jupiter and its icy moons
Bruce Watson - Conditional versions of Poincare’s recurrence theorem & Kac’s formula for the 1st recurrence time
Chris Fourie - AI 4 Health in Production – Africa
Windy Mokuwe - Introduction to Mathematics of Machine Learning
Precious Shabalala and Godknows Sibelo - Using Mathematical models to encourage intraprovincial tourism: Case of Mpumalanga Province
Carla Sharpe - The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Project in South Africa & its impact & applications
Rituparno Goswami - On Complexity of Self-Gravitating systems
Alex Somto Arinze Alochukwu - Uniquely colorable trees
Amartya Goswami - K-spaces of non-domain-valued geometric points
Thekiso Seretlo - On two generation methods of the simple linear group PSL(3,7)
Abdul Kara - On the invariance and conservation laws of differential equations
Youssef Azouzi - Nets in topological spaces and vector lattices
Steven James - Learning object-centric abstractions for high-level planning
Christophe Ley - Statistics meets Sports – when figures are more than numbers
Mellony Graven - The South African Numeracy Chair model: Blending maths research with development
Konstantinos Zoubus - Dynamical spin chains in N=2 superconformal gauge theories
Vukosi Marivate - The Data Science of Natural Language Processing
Volkmar Nolting - Theoretical Modeling of Infrared Thermography
Bevan Smith - Machine Learning for Causal Inference and Explainable AI
Ashleigh Hutchinson - Confined viscous gravity currents
Amare Abebe - Shear-free perturbations of the dark universe
Johan Ferreira - A Reader’s Digest selection of contemporary results rooted in distribution theory
Margaret Archibald - Generating functions: From binary search trees to DNA sequences.
Michele Dougherty - Discoveries at Saturn and its moons and looking forward to visiting Jupiter
Simon Mukwembi - From graph theory to drug design: predictive models for target identification and selection
Montaz Ali - Call Centre’s Optimization Problem in Cell Phone Industries
Craig Pournara - What is the impact of COVID-19 on school mathematics performance?
Daniel Nickelson - How to learn from what we don’t know
Maths in industry
David Mason - The Mathematics in Industry Study Group South Africa
Mathew Aibinu - Algorithms for nonlinear equations and applications
Francisco Ortegòn Gallego - On the mathematical modeling and the numerical approximation of a parabolic trough collector
Pietro Landi - The Mathematics of Love
Delia North - Challenges & Opportunities for Statistics Departments: the modern University Landscape
Riana Roux - How to locate a robber on a graph
Michele Dougherty - Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and its moons
Mohammad Arashi - Biliary cirrhosis analysis through the multivariate t mixed-effects models
Mahdi Salehi - Clustering via semiparametric density estimation
Jill Adler: Levering educational change: A 10-year mathematics research and professional development project
Rajendra Pant - Fixed points theory for nonexpansive type mappings in Banach Spaces
Phillip Mafuta - On the leaf number of a graph
Bubacarr Bah - Integer Programming Approach to Deep Neural Networks with Binary Activation Functions
Valisoa Razanajatovo Misanantenaina - The average size of independent sets and matchings in graphs
Michael Henning - Upper bounds on (total) domination numbers of a graph in terms of minimum degree
Ansie Harding: A mathematical comparison between the Spanish Flu of 1918 and Covid 19
Andréhette Verster: A different way of choosing a threshold in a bivariate extreme value study
Johané Nienkemper-Swanepoel: Multiple correspondence analysis applications for missing data
Rocco Duvenhage: Noncommutative Wasserstein metrics
Liam Baker - Self-led Learning and Mathematics Competitions
Neville Fowkes: Boundary tracing; a technique to produce exact solutions to boundary value problems
Florian Luca: On X-coordinates of Pell equations in various sequences
Kendall Born: Prandtl’s Extended Mixing length Model applied to the Two-dimensional Turbulent Classical Far Wake
Samantha Morrison - A Multiplicative Reasoning Intervention in Grade 2
Bruce Mellado - From discovery of the Higgs boson to Modelling the COVID pandemic, the role of AI
Segun Oke - Mathematical model for the estrogen paradox in breast cancer treatment with optimal control.
Tony Ng - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Evaluation of First-Passage Distribution of Bivariate Degradation Processes
Katherine Malan - Recent Developments in the Analysis of Neural Network Error Landscapes
Peter Dankelmann - The Oriented Diameter of Graphs
Caz McNamara and Marike Kluyts - Job Interviews: What to expect
Rituparno Goswami - Tidal forces are gravitational waves
Caryn McNamara and Marike Kluyts - Building your brand: CV writing
Ashleigh Hutchinson - Optimal size of marine exclusion zones
Diane Dowejko - Online presentations
Farai Nyabadza - Why modelling predictions differ? The case of COVID-19 in South Africa
Andre McDonald - The Inverse Frobenius-Perron Problem: Applications, Solutions and Future Directions
Oluwatosin Mewomo - A brief survey on convergence analysis of fixed-point iterative schemes with applications to nonlinear problems
Diane Dowejko - Effectively communicating science to various audiences
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