ORGANIZED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
ORGANIZED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
The following events were organized with significant sponsorship from UNISA, Swiss Embassy, DST, NRF, and the Abduls Salam ICTP:
• 1st Swiss-South Africa Workshop on Nanoscience & Nanotechnology,
14-15 April 2014, South Africa
(90 Participants)
• Synchrotron Radiations Techniques & Nanotechnology: A Synergic Approach to Life Science Medicine, and materials,
11-22 Nov. 2013, Somerset West, South Africa
• Regional Abdus Salam ICTP Workshop on Materials for Solar Energy,
3-8 Nov. 2013, South Africa
• School on Cooperative Phenomena in CM: From Bose-Einstein Condensates to Quantum Optics,
17 - 28 Nov. 2014, University of Buea, Cameroon
(470 Participants)
• Energy Postgraduate Conference,
11-14 Aug. 2013, Faure-South Africa
(80 Participants)
• India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Nano-Workshop:
2014, Faure-South Africa
(180 Participants)
• Regional African Materials Research Society:
2014, Faure-South Africa
(140 Participants)
• African Laser Centre Annual Workshop:
2014, Faure-South Africa
(230 Participants)
• DST-NRF Algeria-South Africa Coop. Program:
2015, Faure-South Africa
(60 Participants)
• NANOSMAT-Africa-2018:
19-23 November 2018, Somerset West-South Africa
(347 Participants)
PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
● 2nd International Congress on Materials & Renewable Energy (MRE 14)
8-10/08/2014, Hong Kong University of Science, Hong Kong
1 invited + 1 poster contributions
● 5th International Congress on Ceramics
17-21/08/2014, Beijing - China.
1 oral contribution
● Nanocon 14,
14-15/10/2014, Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune - India
1 oral contribution
● Science and Applications of Thin Films (SATF 2014),
15-19/09/2014, Izmir - Turkey,
1 oral + 1 poster contributions
● National consultation workshop on the draft code of conduct for nanotechnology research and development.
10/07/2014, Johannesburg - South Africa
1 invited contribution
● UKZN Nanotechnology Platform Workshop 2014
21-25/07/2014, KwaZulu-Natal - South Africa
1 invited contribution
● NanoSUR, Latin America NanoFORO 2014,
27-31/10/2014, Caracas - Venezuela
2 invited + 6 poster contributions
● COST Phototech School "Advanced Laser Spectroscopy in Green Phototechnology",
18-23/10/2014, Szeged - Hungary
1 invited contribution
● Science & Applications of Thin Films: SATF 2014
15-19/09/2014, Izmir - Turkey
1 oral + 1 poster contributions
● Botswana International University for Science & Technology Workshop on Nanotechnology,
25/09/2014, Gaborone - Botswana
1 seminar
● Botswana College of Agriculture Workshop on Nanotechnology,
25/09/2014, Gaborone - Botswana
● 7th African Laser Centre Workshop,
3-5/11/2014, Rabat - Morocco
1 plenary+ 2 oral + 7 poster contributions
● 7th Int. Symposium On Macro- and Supramolecular Architectures and Materials: MAM-14,
23-27/11/2014, Johannesburg - South Africa
1 plenary+ 6 oral + 8 poster contributions
● ICTP School on Cooperative Phenomena in Condensed Matter: “From Bose-Einstein Condensates to Quantum Optics”
17 - 28 Nov. 2014, University of Buea, Buea – Cameroon
● IBSA Nano-Workshop 14: Advanced Materials
1-2 Dec. 2014, UNESCO UNISA Africa Chair, Western Cape - South Africa
Reported to 2015 due to “Ebola crisis”
● Regional AMRS Workshop-2014,
3-4 Dec. 2014, UNESCO UNISA Africa Chair, Western Cape - South Africa
Reported to 2015 due to “Ebola crisis”
● 2nd BRICS Conference on Energy & Advanced materials,
4-6/03/2015, Florida - South Africa
1 Plenary, 2 Orals, 9 posters
● ACOLS 2015 (African conference on Laser and Spectroscopy 2015),
08-12/03/2015, Cairo - Egypt
2 invited & regular contributions
● Africa SOLAR 2015,
20-27/06/2015, Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso
1 invited contribution
● NCP 1st Nanosciences/Nanotechnology Workshop (NCP: National Centre for Physics),
26-29 Aug. 2015, Islamabad - Pakistan
5 invited contributions
● AESA 2015 (Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa),
African Academy of Sciences, (9-11 Sept. 2015, Nairobi – Kenya
● NANOSMAT 2015,
13-16 Sept. 2015, Manchester, UK
1 invited & 1 poster contributions
● DST-DGRSDT 1st joint Nanotechnology Workshop,
25-30 Sept. 2015, Algiers - Algeria
● TWAS Annual Young Scientists’ conference,
16-18/09/15, Johannesburg - South Africa
3 oral contributions
● International OSA Network of Students IONS 2015,
1-5/09/2015, Tunis - Tunisia
1 oral contribution
● 2nd International Conf. on Carbon Capture & Storage,
UWC, 2-4/03/2015, Bellville - South Africa
1 invited contribution
● 7th International Symposium on Macro and Supramolecular Architectures and materials,
25-30/11/2015, Johannesburg - South Africa
1 invited, 5 oral & 11 poster contributions
● Hercules Synchrotrons/Neutrons Training,
06-24/07/2015, Taipei – Taiwan
1 poster contribution
● 41st National Convention of the South African Chemical Institute,
1 – 6 December 2013, East London/South Africa.
● 7th World Nanotechnology Conference,
20 - 21 June 2016, Cape Town/South Africa.
● NANOSMAT 2016 11th International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings and Nanostructured Materials,
6-9 September 2016, Aveiro, Portugal.
● The 28th World Conference of the International Nuclear Target Development Society,
13- 18 November 2016, Stellenbosch, Cape Town/South Africa.
● NANOSMAT 2017 12th International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings and Nanostructured Materials,
11-13 September 2017, Paris, France,
● 9th African Materials Research Society (AMRS) International Conference,
9-14 December 2017, Gaborone, Botswana.
● 69th Annual meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE),
2-7 September 2018, Bologna, Italy.
● International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings and Nanostructured Materials (NANOSMAT-Africa),
19-23 November 2018, Cape Town/South Africa,
● Identifying and shielding radioactive element with hydride particle detector at the IEEE NPSS International School for Real Time Systems in Particle Physics 2018,
7th-17th July, 2018, Cape Town, South Africa.
● ‘Gender difference in leadership’ at the “5th OWSD General Assembly and International Conference in Science & Technology in the Developing World’’,
16th -19th May, Doha-Kuwait,
● Women in Science at Annual South African Young Scientists Conference,
11th-17th June, 2018, Johannesburg, South Africa.
● Structural and optical investigation of the nanostructure on the wings of idea malabarica (Moore, 1877)’' at the international conference on nanomaterials and nanotechnology,
6th -10th December 2017, Tamil Nadu-India.
● 3D Printing organized by University of Stellenbosch,
23rd -28th June 2016, Cape Town-South Africa.
● Laser Safety in various temporal Regimes of the Centre for Scientific and Industrial research,
24th -27th April 2014, Stellenbosch- South Africa.
● Radiation Protection, iThemba LABS,
25th -27th March 2014, Cape Town-South Africa
● Innovation in Nanoscience, Nanotechnology and Nanosatellites event,
11th -12th June 2014, Cape Town-South Africa.
● Photonic Properties of Nanostructured Wings of Tree Nymph butterfly’ at the 7th African Laser Center Annual Workshop,
3rd-5th November 2014, Rabat-Morocco.
● 5th EOS Topical Meeting on Terahertz Science & Technology,
08/May/2016- 11/May/2016, Pecs, Hungary.
● Ultrafast Phenomena in Cooperative Systems (GRS), Revealing Coupled Interactions in Complex Matter- Towards Control of Material Properties,
14/02/2016- 19/02/2016, Tuscany, Ciocco in Lucca (Barga), Italy.
● Ultrafast Phenomena in Cooperative Systems (GRS), Gordon Research Seminar Series
13/02/2016- 14/02/2016, Tuscany, Ciocco in Lucca (Barga), Italy.
● MUST-2016 (Molecular Ultrafast Science and Technology) Annual Meeting
10-13/01/2016, Engelberg,Switzerland.
● Career Development Workshop for Women in Physics, ICTP,
12-16/10/2015, Trieste, Italy.
● ICTP Synchrotron Radiation Techniques and Nanotechnology
11-22/11/2013, Cape Town, South Africa.
● The Regional Workshop on Materials Science for Solar Energy Conversion,
4-8/11/2013, Cape Town, South Africa.
● NANOSMAT 2017 “12th International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings and Nanostructured Materials”
11-13 /9, 2017, Paris, France
● NANOSMAT 2014, 9th International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings and Nanostructured Materials,
8-11th September 2014, Dublin-Ireland,
● African Union Youth Volunteer Corps 9th Batch, Volunteer Pre Deployment Orientation Training.
19 – 30 November 2018, Brazzaville, Congo.
● 10th Int'l Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering, Technology & Healthcare (ASETH-18)
19 & 20 November, Cape Town, South Africa.
● Artisanal Small Scale Mining Conference (ASM 2018),
Johannesburg, South Africa.
● 10th International Conference On African Large River Basins Hydrology,
November 26th – December 2016, Ougadougou-Burkina Fasso
● Evidence Information Policy Making: Water, Energy & Health, Food Health,
9-11 – December 2018, Pretoria-South Africa.
● South African Science Forum
12-14 –December 2018, Pretoria-South Africa.