Members

Yanga Bavuma

Topics of Research: 

Locally Compact Groups, Dynamical Systems

Email: yangabavuma@gmail.com yanga.bavuma@uct.ac.za 

 Jurie Conradie

Topics of Research: 

Functional Analysis, 

General Topology 

Email:

jurie.conradie@uct.ac.za 

John Frith

Topics of Research: 

Frame  Theory

Categorical Topology 

Email: 

john.frith@uct.ac.za 

Christopher Gilmour

Topics of Research: 

Point Free Topology, 

Sigma-frames

Email: 

christopher.gilmour@uct.ac.za 

Francesco G. Russo

Topics of Research: Topological Group Theory, Dynamical Systems

Email: francescog.russo@yahoo.com francesco.russo@uct.ac.za 


Anneliese Schauerte

Topics of Research: 

Categorical Topology, 

Frame and Bi-Frame Theory

Email: 

anneliese.schauerte@uct.ac.za 


Postdoc students since 2013


Eniola Kazeem

Email: kazeemfunmilayo@gmail.com

Project: Probability measures on locally compact groups

Starting date: 1st January 2020 - Ending date: 31st of December 2021

Supervisor:  Francesco G. Russo


PhD students since 2013


 Olwethu Waka

 Email: wolwethu@gmail.com, wkxolw001@myuct.ac.za

Project: On the topological entropy of nilpotent groups of finite rank

University of Cape Town, September 2024  

Supervisor: Francesco G. Russo

 Yanga Bavuma

Email: yangabavuma@gmail.com

PhD Thesis: The relevance of the Pauli group in dynamical systems with pseudo-fermions

University of Cape Town, December 2021

Supervisor: Francesco G. Russo

 Seid Kassaw Muhie

Email: seidkassaw063@gmail.com

PhD Thesis:  A probabilistic approach to a classical result of Ore

University of Cape Town, December 2020

Supervisor: Francesco G. Russo

Eniola Kazeem

Email: kazeemfunmilayo@gmail.com

PhD Thesis:  A measure for the number of commuting subgroups in compact groups

University of Cape Town, July 2019

Supervisors: Hans Peter Künzi and Francesco G. Russo

 Yae Ulrich Gaba

Email: gabayae2@gmail.com

PhD Thesis:  Construction of quasi-metrics determined by orders

University of Cape Town, July 2016

Supervisor:  Hans Peter Künz


 Tahina Rakotoniaina

Email: fenoira@gmail.com

PhD Thesis: On the computational strength of Ramsey's Theorem

University of Cape Town, December 2015

Supervisors:  Vasco Brattka and  Hans Peter Künzi 


 Collins Agyingi

Email: agyingic@gmail.com

PhD Thesis: Hyperconvex hulls in categories of quasi-metric spaces

University of Cape Town, December 2014

Supervisor:  Hans Peter Künzi 


 

MSc students since 2013


 Elizabeth Stevenson

 Email: stveli004@myuct.ac.za 

MSc Thesis: Generalizations of the Theorem of Peter and Weyl

University of Cape Town, Starting Date: January 2023,  in progress 

Supervisors: Francesco G. Russo and Yanga Bavuma

 Olwethu Waka

 Email: wolwethu@gmail.com, wkxolw001@myuct.ac.za

MSc Thesis: Topics of entropy in locally compact abelian groups

University of Cape Town, December 2021 

Supervisor: Francesco G. Russo

 Mita Ramabulana

Email: ramabulanamd@gmail.com, rmbmit001@myuct.ac.za

MSc Thesis:Topics in nonabelian tensor products of topological groups

University of Cape Town, December 2021

Supervisor: Francesco G. Russo

 Yanga Bavuma

Email: yangabavuma@gmail.com

MSc Thesis:

Some combinatorial aspects in algebraic topology and geometric group theory

University of Cape Town, July 2018

Supervisors: Francesco G. Russo and Hans Peter Künzi 

 Mohammed Hamid Dodeh Younis

Email: mhdodeh1@gmail.com

MSc Thesis: The topology of nonabelian tensor square of groups

African Institute of Mathematical Sciences,  July 2017

Supervisors: Francesco G. Russo and David Erwin 

 Stephen Dzaka

Email: stephen@aims.ac.za

MSc Thesis: Dynamical systems on geometric structures

African Institute of Mathematical Sciences,  July 2017

Supervisors: Francesco G. Russo and David Erwin 

 Francky Mathieu Solofomananirina Tiantsoa

Email: francky@aims.ac.za

MSc Thesis: Studies on ultraquasi-pseudometrics and orderings

University of Cape Town, July 2018

Supervisor:  Hans Peter Künzi 

 Graham Manuell

Email: grmanuell@gmail.com

MSc Thesis: Congruence frames of frames and k-frames

University of Cape Town, July 2015

Supervisors: Christopher Gilmour and John Frith 

Gayle Apfel

Email: gdmp27@gmail.com

MSc Thesis: Strict extensions in pointfree topology

University of Cape Town, July 2013

Supervisors:  Anneliese Schauerte and Hans Peter Künzi