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National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences
Joined July 2013
NITheCS Colloquium: ‘Quantum Computing: Challenges and Opportunities’ - Dr Ryan Sweke (AIMS SA & SU) - Mon, 24 Feb @ 16h00-17h00 SAST. Register and attend online or in person. Cheese and wine will be served. #quantum #iyq2025 #quantumcomputing #physics
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‘My area of interest & expertise, both in teaching & research, is predictive modelling. These predictive models are not restricted to the financial industry – the areas applicable are limited only to your imagination.’ Read more about Prof Tanja Verster at
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The 10 Feb NITheCS Colloquium ‘A Century of Quantum: From Foundations to the Future’ by NITheCs Director Prof Francesco Petruccione is now available online. He reviews historical milestones leading to the birth of quantum mechanics
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We at NITheCS express our deepest condolences to the family, colleagues and friends of Ms Senamile Masango, who passed away this past weekend. Known as South Africa's first black female nuclear scientist, she was inspirational in terms of the advancement of science.
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Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and ...and Richard P. Feynman ‘for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles’.
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... fostering inclusive environments through policies and actions that promote inclusion, diversity and equity. '
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Thanks to our online and in-person audience for today’s NITheCS Colloquium ‘A Century of Quantum: From Foundations to the Future’ Prof Francesco Petruccione (NITheCS) Monday, 10 February 2025 | 16h00-17h00 SAST
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Science-related anniversary: The French physicist & mathematician Claude-Louis Navier (born 10 Feb 1785) became best known for the Navier-Stokes equations describing the motion of viscous fluid substances (co-creator: Irish mathematician and physicist Sir George Gabriel Stokes.)
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Science quote for the day: “We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.” - Prof. Brian Cox, professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester
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... elements according to atomic weight (now 'relative atomic mass') & valence. Revisions of his concept included that of physicist Niels Bohr (1922), who added elements discovered after 1869 - but it was still, in essence, the arrangement of Mendeleev.
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UKZN & NITheCS Seminar: ‘Strong lensing cosmology and the line of sight' - Daniel Johnson (CNRS, University of Montpellier, France) - Thurs, 13 Feb 2025 @ 12h15-13h15 SAST. Register to attend online or in person. #cosmology #astrophysics #lensing
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'Science quote of the day: 'A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.' - Godfrey Harold Hardy, English mathematician, born 7 February 1877
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NITheCS Mini-school: 'Graded rings in projective geometry' - Prof Balázs Szendrői (University of Vienna, Austria) - Wed, 12 Feb @ 14h00-16h00 & 19 Feb @ 15h00-17h00 SAST. Register to attend online or in person. #mathematics #geometry #algebra
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