The Journal Club meets Tuesdays. Talks are currently held virtually or possibly hybrid.
Date: Please see dates below.
Time: Usually 2pm. Exceptions to this starting time are noted in schedule.
Venue: Online or hybrid using zoom. Links to join will be sent out to Journal Club email list.
Contact for queries and for joining the club: Daniel Nickelsen
The "Journal Club" seminar provides a forum for us, and our visitors, to discuss current work, perhaps to benefit from feedback before it is submitted to a journal. Presenters are encouraged to focus on the context of a problem or result and the reasoning it involves, instead of presenting a management-level summary of polished results. Insights into the work, progress, pitfalls of methods, critical assumptions, and similar discussion points will be appreciated. For a fruitful discussion presentations should be accessible, carefully choosing the abstraction level and the technical details shown. Usually a taste of the methods involved will be more beneficial to the audience than a complete proof. It is hoped that both the audience and the speaker will benefit from an example of how to engage in research.
2022 Schedule (online / hybrid)
2021 Schedule (online / hybrid)
2020 / 2021 Schedule (online)
2020 Schedule
2019 Schedule
| Date |
Speaker and Talk |
February
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5 February
|
Professor Stéphane Ouvry, Paris Sud
The algebraic area of lattice walks and the Hofstadter model: exact enumeration |
| 12 February |
Dr Yabebal Fantaye, AIMS
A beautiful theory; high performance and cloud computing (2 talks)
|
19 February
|
Dr Eric Andriantiana, Rhodes University
Extremal trees with fixed degree sequence |
| 26 February |
Dr Daniel Nickelsen, NIThEP, Stellenbosch University
Applications of nonequilibrium Markov processes |
March
|
|
| 5 March |
Prof Stefan Jaehnichen, TU Berlin
Comparing models of centralised and de-centralised accounting |
| 12 March |
Prof Rafal Marcin Lochowski, University of Warsaw
Pathwise stochastic calculus of deterministic càdlàg paths - linking several approaches |
| 19 March |
Irene Kyomugisha, AIMS
Machine Learning in Genomics Research |
| 26 March |
Prof Patrick Dorey, Durham University
From Stokes to Reality |
| April |
|
| 2 April |
No talk -- PAMO on at AIMS |
| 9 April |
François Renaud
Mathematics with categorical aesthetics
|
| 16 April |
Samar Elsheikh, UCT
Genetic Association Study of Brain Connectivity Changes for Alzheimer’s Disease
|
| 23 April |
No talk |
| 30 April |
No talk |
May
|
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| 7 May |
Dr Yaé Ulrich Gaba, IMSP
Discussions around the pseudo-metrization of a partially ordered metric space |
| 14 May |
Dr Kenneth Dadedzi, AIMS
The ancestral matrix of rooted trees |
21 May
Venue - Main Building |
Dr Febe de Wet, Stellenbosch University, and Dr Astik Biswas, Stellenbosch University
Semi-supervised acoustic model training for five-lingual code-switched automatic speech recognition |
28 May
Venue - Main Building |
Dr T. L. Kitagawa, University of Oxford
Making the Rules by Breaking the Rules: Deciphering the History of Mathematics and Computing |
| 27 June |
Professor Lijun Zhang, College of Mathematics and Systems Science, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China
Traveling wave solutions to a class of higher-order nonlinear wave equations
and
Dr Anum Shafiq, International Institute for Symmetry Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Department of Mathematical Sciences, North-West University, Mafikeng Campus
Third-grade fluid over a vertical exponentially stretched plate: Statistical analysis |
June-August
|
Recess
|
2018 schedule
| Date |
Speaker and Talk |
September
|
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11 September
|
Dr Dimbinaina Ralaivaosaona, Stellenbosch University
Conditioned Galton-Watson Trees
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18 September
|
Dr Milaine Sergine Seuneu Tchamga, AIMS
Delay in Stability Switch in Singularly Perturbed Models and its Applications
|
25 September
|
Dr Daniel Nickelsen, NIThEP, Stellenbosch University
How graph theory and number theory emerge in equilibration dynamics of many-body quantum systems.
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October
|
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2 October
|
Felicien Jordan Masakuna, AIMS, and Kayode Olaleye, AIMS
Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning Indaba report back
|
9 October
|
Benji Meltzer, Aerobotics
Learning when labels are expensive: weak and partial supervision
|
16 October
|
Augustina Frimpong, University of Ghana
Phenotypic analysis of T cell diversity in paediatric malaria infection |
Thursday, 18 October
|
Osman Musa, Vienna University of Technology
Sparse Regression Codes - Approximate Message
Passing, Convex Approaches and Empirical Findings |
23 October
|
Dr Peter Jung, CommIT, TU Berlin
Blind Sparse Recovery From Superimposed Non-Linear Sensor Measurements |
30 October
|
Dr Marc Sedjro, AIMS Tanzania
On some
asymmetric flows
|
November
|
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6 November
|
No Journal Club - thesis defence presentations on
|
13 November
|
No Journal Club - thesis defence presentations on |
20 November
|
Dr Elbasher Ahmed, AIMS
Axial segregation of granular flows in rotating drums |
27 November
|
Dr S. Narjess Afzaly
Isomorph-free Generation of Graphs
|
December
|
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4 December
|
Taboka Prince Chalebgwa, AIMS
Algebraic values of certain entire functions of order less than one |
11 December
|
IWR Workshop on at AIMS
|
18 December
|
Professor Abdul Kara, Wits
On the relationship between the invariance and conservation laws of differential equations
|
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| Date |
Speaker and Talk |
January
|
Recess -- MISG and other workshops on
|
February
|
|
6 February
|
No Talk
|
13 February
|
Week of International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Speaker: Dr Diletta Martinelli, Edinburgh University
A gentle introduction to the Minimal Model Program
|
20 February
|
Martha N. Kamkuemah, AIMS and Stellenbosch University
The net of devices using TCP |
Monday, 26 February
7pm, Main Building |
Prof Alan F. Beardon, University of Cambridge and AIMS
On an exact formula for a root of the equation p(z)=0, where p is any polynomial of any degree.
Lecture 1
This talk will be in the Main Building at 7pm. |
Tuesday, 27 February
7pm, Main Building
|
Prof Alan F. Beardon, University of Cambridge and AIMS
On an exact formula for a root of the equation p(z)=0, where p is any polynomial of any degree.
Lecture 2
This talk will be in the Main Building at 7pm. It replaces the usual afternoon Journal Club meeting.
|
| March |
|
6 March
|
Week of International Women's Day
Speaker: Lyndsay Kerr, University of Strathclyde
Discrete Coagulation-Fragmentation Systems
Abstract
|
13 March
|
Dr Lindiwe Tshuma, AIMSSEC
Multiple levels and aspects of language competency in English and Intermediate Phase mathematics teachers: An analysis of case of the Eastern Cape Province
|
20 March
|
Audace Amen Vioutou Dossou-Olory, Stellenbosch University
Inducibility of Trees: A Probabilistic Approach
|
27 March
|
Prof Patrick Dorey, Durham University
Breaking integrability at the boundary
|
| April |
|
3 April
|
Dr Nirina Maurice Hasina Tahiridimbisoa, AIMS
Symmetric group on the dynamic of Axelrod model for dissemination of cultures. |
10 April
|
Data Science Workshop on -- No Talk
|
17 April
|
Prof Tim Gendron, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | UNAM · Institute of Mathematics
Quasicrystals and the Quantum Modular Invariant: Toward a Solution of the Real Multiplication Problem in Characteristic Zero
|
24 April
|
Emily Muller, AIMS
Determining the Mechanisms of Social Network Evolution |
| May |
|
1 May
|
Workers' Day Holiday -- No Talk
|
8 May
|
Dr Charles Maepa, University of Pretoria
On Lipschitz p-compact operators |
15 May
|
Dr Carl A. B. Pearson, United States Africa Command and Stellenbosch University
Modeling Public Health Interventions
|
22 May
|
Emmanuel Dufourq, AIMS and UCT
Facial expression recognition using convolutional neural networks
|
29 May
|
Jean Bernoulli Ravelomanana, Stellenbosch University
Tanglegrams
|
| June-August |
Recess
|
2017 Calendar
September to December 2017
| Date |
Speaker and Talk |
September
|
|
| 12 September |
Professor Jeff Sanders, AIMS
Journal Club and Crypto-currency
|
| 19 September |
IEEE Africon conference, Cape Town |
26 September
|
Professor Jeff Sanders, AIMS
Crypto-currency
|
October
|
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3 October
|
Abdoelnaser Degoot, AIMS
A Biophysical Model for Predictions of Peptide:HLA-DR Interactions Based on Genomic and Structural Data |
10 October
|
Professor Alan Beardon, University of Cambridge and AIMS
Riemann surfaces: old and new
|
Monday, 16 October
at 3pm
Main Lecture Hall
|
General Talk:
Dr Eddy Kimba Phongi, Visiting Researcher, AIMS
KimbaJacks Maths Puzzle Game |
17 October
|
Mhlasakululeka Mvubu, Alice Nanyanzi, Innocenter Amima and Jordan Félicien Masakuna, AIMS
Deep Learning: Not a technique, but a powerful tool
|
24 October
|
Dr Eddy Kimba Phongi, Visiting Researcher, AIMS
Nonstandard finite-difference on a singularly perturbed problem. The case of exchange of stability |
31 October
|
Dr Bruce Bartlett, Stellenbosch University
Generators and relations for the bicategory of 3-manifolds
|
| November |
|
7 November
|
Dr Dimbinaina Ralaivaosaona, Stellenbosch University
The average distance in randomly perturbed graphs
|
14 November
|
Dr Rejoyce Gavhi-Molefe, AIMS
One-Parameter Interpolatory Subdivision Convergence
|
21 November
|
Jordan Félicien Masakuna, AIMS
Tackling Inconsistency in Classifier Fusion
|
28 November
|
Dr Ronalda Benjamin, Stellenbosch University
Connections between Fredholm Theory and Positivity in General Ordered Banach Algebras
|
| December |
|
5 December
|
Dr Emmanuel Adabor, AIMS
Machine learning approaches to decipher hormone and HER2 receptor status phenotypes in breast cancer |
12 December
|
Professor Abdul Kara, University of the Witwatersrand
Dealing with symmetries and conservation laws of nonlinear Schrodinger equations
|
February to June 2017
| Date |
Speaker and Talk |
| February 2017 |
|
Thursday, 2 February
Note: this talk is on a Thursday
|
Prof Jane L Hutton, Department of Statistics, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Missing data and how to see biased results
|
Tuesday, 7 February
|
Prof Elissa J. Schwartz, Washington State University
Modeling immune system evasion by HIV and similar retroviruses |
14 February
|
Dr Stefano Galmarini, EC/Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy
Predicting and assessing atmospheric dispersion of pollutants from multiple model results: The power (and danger) of multi-model ensembles
|
21 February
|
Mathematical Finance Summer School on at AIMS |
28 February
|
Buri Gershom, AIMS and SACEMA
Differential expression analysis of count data: a bottom up approach
|
| March 2017 |
|
7 March
Venue: AIMS Main Building
|
Dr Tom Brown, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
An Interdisciplinary View on the Transition to an Energy System Based on Renewables
This talk will be in the AIMS Main Building, 6 Melrose Road.
Dr Tom Brown's talk slides
|
14 March
|
Prof Philibert Nang, Ecole Normale Supérieure of Libreville, Gabon
Introduction to D-modules |
21 March
|
Human Rights Day.
|
28 March
|
Dr Christian Kenfack Sadem, Mesoscopic and Multilayer Structures Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, University of Dschang, Cameroon
Tunable Potential and Decoherence of Polaron in Semiconductor Quantum Wire
|
| April 2017 |
|
4 April
|
Dr Diptarup Nandi, Indian Institute of Science
A sensory ecological perspective on mate sampling strategies: Models and an empirical test
|
Tues, 11 April
|
Kossi Etekpo, AIMS and UCT
Numerical solution of subsurface reservoir simulation
|
Wed, 12 April
|
General Talk: AIMS Main Building
Prof Felix Mora-Camino, French Civil Aviation Institute-ENAC
Advances in Operations Research for Air Transportation Planning and Operations
Note that this talk is on a Wednesday at 2pm and in the AIMS Main Building
|
18 April
|
Dr Gaston Kuzamunu Mazandu, AIMS
Can mathematical sciences change the state of the battle against communicable and non-communicable diseases?
|
25 April
|
Dr Alberto Cazzaniga, AIMS
The ADE classification and related invariants
|
| May 2017 |
|
2 May
|
Ephifania Geza, AIMS
The Evolution of Ancestry Deconvolution
|
Tues, 9 May
|
Dr Bubacarr Bah, AIMS
Bounds of restricted isometry constants for Gaussian matrices |
Thurs, 11 May
Please note this talk is on a Thursday.
|
Dr Daniel Nickelsen, NITheP
Realistic equilibration in quantum spin systems |
16 May
|
Prof Elissa J. Schwartz, Washington State University
Free-virus and cell-to-cell transmission in models of equine infectious anemia virus infection |
23 May
|
Prof Robert Smith?, The University of Ottawa
Unexpected infection spikes in a model of Respiratory Syncytial Virus vaccination |
30 May
Note: in HALL Building
|
Dr Nantsoina Cynthia Ramiharimanana, AIMS
Embedding Problems and Minimal Ramification
The venue for this talk is the AIMS HALL Building (Cosomology area), 7 Melrose Road
|
June 2017
|
|
6 June
Note: in HALL Building
|
Dr Ali Zahabi, University of the Witwatersrand and Queen Mary University of London
Universality in integrable combinatorics/probability: the curious case of generalized XX0 spin chain
The venue for this talk is the AIMS HALL Building (Cosomology area), 7 Melrose Road
|
Tuesday, 13 June
|
Audace Amen Vioutou Dossou-Olory, Stellenbosch University
On the Maximum Asymptotic Density of Topological d-ary Trees
|
Tuesday, 20 June
|
August Intake Graduation - No Journal Club meeting
|
Thursday, 22 June
|
Dr Mokhwetha Mabula, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Pretoria
Cone Metric and Metric Spaces
Please note that this talk will be on a Thursday.
|
Tuesday, 27 June
|
Zoe Gill, Stellenbosch University and Dr Wilfred Ndifon, AIMS and Stellenbosch University
Mechanistic null models in science: from data to theory and back
|
July 2017
|
Recess
|
August 2017
|
Recess
|
2016 Talks
| Date |
Speaker and Talk |
| September 2016 |
|
| 6 September |
Dr. Rafal Marcin Lochowski, Univeristy of Warsaw
Irregular paths-between determinism and randomness
|
| 13 September |
Mr. Nirina Maurice Hasina Tahiridimbisoa, Wits University, AIMS-SA
Novel use of symmetry in the AdS/CFT correspondence
|
| 20 September |
Dr. Didier Belobo, Yaounde I University.
'Exact' solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with time management cubic-quintic nonlinearities and external fields : application to Bose-Einstein condensates.
|
| 27 September |
Mr. Evans Doe Ocansey, Research Institute for Symbolic Computations (RISC), Hagenberg and Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria.
Representation of (q)-hypergeometric products and mixed versions in difference rings.
|
| October 2016 |
|
| 4 October |
Professor Abdul Kara, University of the Witwatersrand
The Invariance, Conservation Laws and Integration of Difference Equations
|
| 11 October |
Dr. Siyabonga Chule, AIMS Research Center
The analysis of the locally - risk minimization hedging strategy for robust hedging under the informational context of mis-pricing: Computations in the k=1 state space. |
| 18 October |
Dr. Juliet Pulliam, SACEMA, Univeristy of Stellenboch
Resource-driven encounters and pathogen invasion dynamics: a case-study in interdisciplinary research and training.
|
| 25 October |
Dr. Rhoda J Hawkins and Dr. Simon Johnston, University of Sheffield, UK
The role of biopolymers in the immune response to fungal infection.
|
| November 2016 |
|
| 1 November |
|
| 8 November |
Wanele Gcinumuzi, AIMS Research Centrer
Application of Filtering to Calibration of Financial Models
|
| 15 November |
Siboniso Nqubeko Goba, Univeristy of Stellenboch
Analysing tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency in the burden of tuberculosis in South Africa.
|
| 24 November |
Dr Marie Joubert and Ingrid Mostert, AIMSSEC
A South African take on an EU project: Formative assessment in mathematics classrooms
|
| 29 November |
Dr Amare Abebe, Department of Physics, North-West University
Covariant Consistency Analysis of the Einstein Field Equations in 4th -order Gravity.
|
| December 2016 |
|
| 6 December |
Dr. Theoni Photopoulou, University of Cape Town
Statistical models for animal movement
|
February-May 2016
| Date |
Speaker and Talk |
| 2 February 2016 |
Yaé Ulrich Gaba, AIMS
Algebraic conditions in the QPM problem |
| 9 February |
Professor Alan F. Beardon, University of Cambridge and AIMS
Continued fractions and hyperbolic geometry |
| 16 February |
Dr Solomon Owerre, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and AIMS
An introduction to two-dimensional Dirac metal and topological insulators |
| 23 February |
Dr Siyabonga Chule, AIMS
The analysis of hedging approaches in an incomplete financial market model using dynamic programming |
|
|
| 1 March |
Professor Alan F. Beardon, University of Cambridge and AIMS
Sums of powers of integers
|
3 March
Note: This talk is on a Thursday at 5pm |
Dr Stephen M. Wilkins, University of Sussex
Exploring the End of the Dark Ages
* Note that this talk is on a Thursday at 5pm and will be in the Main Lecture Hall |
| 8 March |
International Women's Day
Samantha Jones, University of Cape Town
|
| 15 March |
Kossi Etekpo, University of Cape Town and AIMS
Numerical schemes for transport equations in porous media |
| 22 March |
No talk (SANUM on at Stellenbosch)
|
31 March
Note: This talk is on a Thursday |
Dr André Saint Eudes Mialebama Bouesso, AIMS and Dr Sylvain Attan, University of Benin
Syzygies on path algebras |
|
|
| 5 April |
No talk - system identification workshop on |
| 12 April |
Elia Namundjebo, AIMS
The Double Heston Model via Kalman Filter |
14 April
Note: This talk is on a Thursday |
Pascal Wild, AIMS
What is Topological Data Analysis (TDA)?
Pascal's topological data analysis slides
|
| 19 April |
Dr Dr Bawfeh Kingsley Kometa, University of Bergen, Norway
High order semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin methods |
28 April
Note: This talk is on a Thursday |
Guy Moïse Dongho Nguimdo, University of the Witwatersrand
Structural stability and solar cell performance of AgInS2 materials |
|
|
| 3 May |
No talk - biomaths workshop on |
| 10 May |
Dr Franck Kalala Mutombo, AIMS and University of Lubumbashi
Centrality measures in complex networks
Franck's centrality talk slides
|
| 17 May |
No talk |
| Tuesday, 24 May |
Grace Mwakyoma, AIMS
A link between Hofer’s geometry and Aubry-Mather theory |
Thursday, 26 May
Note: This talk is on a Thursday |
Dr Wilfred Ndifon, AIMS
Searching for principles in biological systems
|
| 31 May |
No talk - MMED workshop on |
| June - August |
Recess |
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