The AIMS South Africa Public Lecture Series presents a talk titled: ‘The Life and Death of a Drop’ By Prof. Sidney Nagel, Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor in Physics, James Franck Institute, Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College, The University of Chicago Abstract: Because fluids flow and readily change their shape in response to small forces,
The AIMS South Africa Public Lecture Series presents a talk ‘Big Data and related Machine Learning Challenges’ By Prof. Ninan Sajeeth Philip, Associate Professor and Research Guide, Department of Physics, St. Thomas College, Kozhencheri-Kerala. Abstract: “I shall talk on Big data paradigm and tools, mostly at an introductory level and point out why we require machine learning in
The AIMS Public Lecture Series presents a talk titled: ‘The Emergence of the Dark Universe’ By Prof. Alexandre Refregier, Head of the Cosmology Research Group and Dr Adam Amara, Senior Scientist both from the Institute for Astronomy, ETH, Zurich
The AIMS Public Lecture Series presents a talk titled: ‘Is mathematics useful?’ By Martin Grötschel, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Abstract: Calculating percentages, profit margins, areas, volumes, and other simple computationsare obviously useful. Is this all the mathematics that people encounter in daily life? Is there moremathematics “contained” in the products that surround us? Do industry
The AIMS South Africa Public Lecture Series presents a talk titled: ‘”Identifying homogenous risks – Theory and practical issues” By Prof. Peter Gritzmann, Munich, TU München, gritzman@ma.tum.de
The AIMS South Africa Public Lecture Series presents a talk titled: “How to Understand Territories with Mathematics” By Prof. Mark Lewis, Senior Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Biology, University of Alberta Abstract: The world around us is full of territories. Organisms from human beings to wolves have found ways to signal which regions in space
The AIMS South Africa Public Lecture Series presents a talk as part of its celebration of International Women’s Day titled: ‘Women in Science and the science of women – studying microbiomes’ By Prof. Nicola Mulder, Computational Biology Group, UCT. Abstract: This talk will be a mix of two topics. First I will discuss the challenges
The AIMS South Africa Public Lecture Series presents a talk titled: “Gravitational Waves – Einstein’s Final Legacy and a Revolution for Astronomy” By Prof. Bruce Bassett, AIMS South Africa, SAAO and UCT. Abstract: Gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of space and time itself caused by colliding black holes – were discovered last week by LIGO,
As part of our efforts to encourage more young women to enter the exciting world of science, AIMS South Africa and AIMSSEC, arranged and hosted a variety of events to celebrate International Women’s Day which took place on 8 March 2016. The events took place from 7 to 11 March and included visits to local
The AIMS South Africa Public Lecture Series presents a talk titled: ‘Bows, halos and flashes: A tour of atmospheric optics’ By Dr Jonathan Shock, a lecturer in the UCT Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. Abstract: The study of atmospheric optics has been with humanity as long as we have looked up to see the
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