The Journal Club meets most Tuesdays. Tea is provided in the venue before the talk.
Date: Please see dates below.
Time: usually 4pm (with tea available from 3:30pm) See below for exceptions to this start time
Venue: AIMS Muizenberg, Villa, upstairs seminar room (directions)
2017 Calendar
September to December 2017
| Date |
Speaker and Talk |
September
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| 5 September |
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| 12 September |
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| 19 September |
IEEE Africon conference, Cape Town |
26 September
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October
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3 October
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Michael Kateregga, AIMS and UCT
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10 October
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Félicien Jordan Masakuna, AIMS
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17 October
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24 October
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31 October
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| November |
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7 November
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14 November
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21 November
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28 November
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| December |
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5 December
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12 December
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Forthcoming talks - September 2017:Emmanuel Adabor, Siyabonga Chule
February to June 2017
| Date |
Speaker and Talk |
| February 2017 |
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Thursday, 2 February
Note: this talk is on a Thursday
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Prof Jane L Hutton, Department of Statistics, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Missing data and how to see biased results
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Tuesday, 7 February
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Prof Elissa J. Schwartz, Washington State University
Modeling immune system evasion by HIV and similar retroviruses |
14 February
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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
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21 February
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Mathematical Finance Summer School on at AIMS |
28 February
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Buri Gershom, AIMS and SACEMA
Differential expression analysis of count data: a bottom up approach
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| March 2017 |
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7 March
Venue: AIMS Main Building
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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
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14 March
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Prof Philibert Nang, Ecole Normale Supérieure of Libreville, Gabon
Introduction to D-modules |
21 March
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Human Rights Day.
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28 March
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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
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| April 2017 |
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4 April
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Dr Diptarup Nandi, Indian Institute of Science
A sensory ecological perspective on mate sampling strategies: Models and an empirical test
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Tues, 11 April
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Kossi Etekpo, AIMS and UCT
Numerical solution of subsurface reservoir simulation
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Wed, 12 April
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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
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18 April
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Dr Gaston Kuzamunu Mazandu, AIMS
Can mathematical sciences change the state of the battle against communicable and non-communicable diseases?
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25 April
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Dr Alberto Cazzaniga, AIMS
The ADE classification and related invariants
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| May 2017 |
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2 May
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Ephifania Geza, AIMS
The Evolution of Ancestry Deconvolution
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Tues, 9 May
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Dr Bubacarr Bah, AIMS
Bounds of restricted isometry constants for Gaussian matrices |
Thurs, 11 May
Please note this talk is on a Thursday.
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Dr Daniel Nickelsen, NITheP
Realistic equilibration in quantum spin systems |
16 May
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Prof Elissa J. Schwartz, Washington State University
Free-virus and cell-to-cell transmission in models of equine infectious anemia virus infection |
23 May
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Prof Robert Smith?, The University of Ottawa
Unexpected infection spikes in a model of Respiratory Syncytial Virus vaccination |
30 May
Note: in HALL Building
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Dr Nantsoina Cynthia Ramiharimanana, AIMS
Embedding Problems and Minimal Ramification
The venue for this talk is the AIMS HALL Building (Cosomology area), 8 Melrose Road
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June 2017
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6 June
Note: in HALL Building
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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), 8 Melrose Road
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Tuesday, 13 June
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Audace Amen Vioutou Dossou-Olory, Stellenbosch University
On the Maximum Asymptotic Density of Topological d-ary Trees
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Tuesday, 20 June
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August Intake Graduation - No Journal Club meeting
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Thursday, 22 June
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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.
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Tuesday, 27 June
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Zoe Gill, Stellenbosch University and Dr Wilfred Ndifon, AIMS and Stellenbosch University
Mechanistic null models in science: from data to theory and back
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July 2017
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Recess
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August 2017
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Recess
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2016 Talks
| Date |
Speaker and Talk |
| September 2016 |
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| 6 September |
Dr. Rafal Marcin Lochowski, Univeristy of Warsaw
Irregular paths-between determinism and randomness
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| 13 September |
Mr. Nirina Maurice Hasina Tahiridimbisoa, Wits University, AIMS-SA
Novel use of symmetry in the AdS/CFT correspondence
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| October 2016 |
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| 4 October |
Professor Abdul Kara, University of the Witwatersrand
The Invariance, Conservation Laws and Integration of Difference Equations
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| November 2016 |
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| 1 November |
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| 8 November |
Wanele Gcinumuzi, AIMS Research Centrer
Application of Filtering to Calibration of Financial Models
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| 15 November |
Siboniso Nqubeko Goba, Univeristy of Stellenboch
Analysing tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency in the burden of tuberculosis in South Africa.
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| 24 November |
Dr Marie Joubert and Ingrid Mostert, AIMSSEC
A South African take on an EU project: Formative assessment in mathematics classrooms
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| 29 November |
Dr Amare Abebe, Department of Physics, North-West University
Covariant Consistency Analysis of the Einstein Field Equations in 4th -order Gravity.
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| December 2016 |
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| 6 December |
Dr. Theoni Photopoulou, University of Cape Town
Statistical models for animal movement
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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 |
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| 1 March |
Professor Alan F. Beardon, University of Cambridge and AIMS
Sums of powers of integers
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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
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| 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)
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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 |
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| 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
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| 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 |
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| 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
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| 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
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| 31 May |
No talk - MMED workshop on |
| June - August |
Recess |
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