The two-day topology workshop within the Siyakhula festival will run from 18-19 March 2024.  Under the banner  Topology for Tomorrow the workshop is a celebration of topology past, present and future with a focus on global trends in topology and its applications.  We invite all topologists - current and future - to join us for  two days of topology and  to take part in the entire Siyakhula festival.  

There will be a number of talks on the methods and applications of Topological Data Analysis, but other aspects of topology and its intersection with science and society will also be addressed.

Invited speakers:

• Ulrike Tillmann (University of Oxford and Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge)
  Keynote Lecture: Seeing data through the eyes of a topologist

• Gillian Grindstaff (University of Oxford)
  Topological data analysis for natural and social geography

• Morten Brun (University of Bergen)
  Density Dependent Persistent Homology

• Bruce Bartlett (Stellenbosch University)
  The mathematics of topological quantum computing

• Dharmanand Baboolal (University of Kwazulu Natal)
  Causal structure of spacetime

Workshop sessions:

• Balázs Szendrői (University of Vienna)
  Symmetry and Topology in Islamic Art

• Cerene Rathilal (University of KwaZulu Natal) and Vivien Visaya (University of Johannesburg Johannesburg)
  Topological Data Analysis: Data has shape, and shape has meaning

"Topology for Tomorrow" is part of an ongoing project to build a cohort of future topology researchers in South Africa, sharing and expanding the country's long-standing expertise in Topology, working together and building further international partnerships.  The first workshop "T4T2022" was held at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in  December 2022 with a follow-up event "T4T2023" in December 2023.  These workshops were aimed principally at graduate students and young academics.  The Topology at Siyakhula event aims to bring together a broad cross-section of the South African topology community within the festival of mathematics.