Faculty of Science events archive.
November 2022
UCT Science Faculty Dean's Dialogue - Mon, Nov 28 2022
October 2022
The Quantum Universe - Thu, Oct 20 2022
June 2022
International Statistical Ecology Conference - Sat, Jun 25 2022
March 2022
The African BioGenome Project: Towards genome-guided conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity across Africa. - Tue, Mar 15 2022
February 2022
Characterization of Prostate Stroma Transcriptome - Thu, Feb 24 2022
April 2021
Geoarchaeological insights on site formation processes of sandstone and quartzite rockshelters and the Umhlatuzana case study (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) - Mon, Apr 12 2021
Why being a female statistician from Africa matters? - Mon, Apr 12 2021
December 2020
Will Artificial Intelligence shape the Future? - Wed, Dec 2 2020
November 2020
The opportunity presented by the call for decolonization - Thu, Nov 26 2020
Knowledge Representation (in the age of Machine Learning) - Thu, Nov 12 2020
Larking about – predicting the ranges and population sizes of larks across an aridity gradient in southern Africa. Zoom link below the advert. - Wed, Nov 11 2020
Ethical Design in UX - Thu, Nov 5 2020
"Prospects for producing molecular complexes for vaccines and antibodies in plants" - Wed, Nov 4 2020
To integrated models ... and beyond … - Mon, Nov 2 2020
October 2020
A South African Case Study: Applying Machine Learning to Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR - Thu, Oct 29 2020
From indigenous knowledge to phytochemistry towards nanotechnologies - Wed, Oct 28 2020
Bayesian networks for knowledge discovery and curriculum optimisation in academic programmes - Mon, Oct 26 2020
Floral evolution of long-tubed Erica species - Wed, Oct 21 2020
Exploring gene regulatory dynamics during development - Wed, Oct 21 2020
Path Dependence in Operational Research - How the Modeling Process Can Influence the Results - Mon, Oct 19 2020
Conservation in a Changing World: Assessing the viability of the agriculturally adapted Blue Crane in the Western Cape - Wed, Oct 14 2020
Developing High-Throughput CRISPRi-based Functional Genomic Techniques for Mycobacteria - Wed, Oct 14 2020
Environmental DNA as a monitoring tool at a single and multi-species level - Mon, Oct 12 2020
A contribution to pharmacogenomics (PGx) research and its positioning in precision Medicine - Wed, Oct 7 2020
Geospatial Data Science for Public Health Surveillance - Mon, Oct 5 2020
September 2020
Stress testing behavioural and macroeconomic risks for credit portfolios - Mon, Sep 28 2020
Coronaviruses: the good, the bad and the ugly - Wed, Sep 23 2020
Computational and wet-lab approaches to inferring the evolution of viral disease symptoms over ~100 year time-frames - Wed, Sep 16 2020
Machine learning for weather predictions - Mon, Sep 14 2020
Engineering the secretory pathway for the molecular farming of complex viral glycoproteins - Wed, Sep 9 2020
What do we know about priors and contraction to simpler models? - Mon, Sep 7 2020
A rapid assay for SARS-CoV-2 mRNA detection which is non-mAb and non-PCR - Wed, Sep 2 2020
August 2020
The use of joint modelling to validate surrogate failure-time endpoints - Mon, Aug 31 2020
The use of joint modelling to validate surrogate failure-time endpoints. - Mon, Aug 31 2020
Expert Knowledge Elicitation - Mon, Aug 24 2020
Viral vectors for transient plant expression: past present and future - Wed, Aug 19 2020
Investigating the XENON1T excess - Wed, Aug 19 2020
Model-Based Geostatistics for Prevalence Mapping in Low-Resource Settings - Mon, Aug 17 2020
Functional divergence of the basic RNA polymerase II transcription machinery in the malaria parasite P. falciparum - Wed, Aug 12 2020
All you (never) wanted to know about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 - Wed, Aug 5 2020
Elements of the Geometry of Bayesian Inference - Mon, Aug 3 2020
July 2020
From basic science to the battlefield of COVID-19 - Wed, Jul 15 2020
March 2020
What does this gene do? Bioinformatics for function - Wed, Mar 4 2020
Women in Mining: experiences from underground platinum mines - Tue, Mar 3 2020
February 2020
Beyond state protected areas: Private land conservation in southern Africa - Wed, Feb 26 2020
External Injection of Ions into an Electron String Ion Source (ESIS) - Wed, Feb 26 2020
Magmatic flare-ups, supervolcanoes, and their implications for the evolution of the continental crust: A Central Andean perspective - Tue, Feb 18 2020
Building stars, planets and the ingredients for life in space - Thu, Feb 6 2020
Egypt in Canaan - a postcolonial look at the earliest (4th mil. BC) colonization of the Southern Levant - Mon, Feb 3 2020
Shedding light on photon and dilepton spectral functions - Mon, Feb 3 2020
January 2020
AFIRM: Africa Summer School on Machine Learning for Data Mining and Search - Mon, Jan 27Fri, Jan 31 2020
December 2019
Reasoning about the behavior of AI systems. - Mon, Dec 9 2019
November 2019
Performing IS Development: Culture’s Emergent Influence - Thu, Nov 28 2019
Radiation biophysics research at iThemba LABS: a multidisciplinary alliance between biology and physics - Wed, Nov 27 2019
Biocultural Heritage - Wed, Nov 20 2019
The Mara Raptor Project: Raptor Research and Conservation in Kenya's Maasai Mara ecosystem - Tue, Nov 12 2019
October 2019
Conservation, Chocolate, CEOs – how to bring it all together - Wed, Oct 30 2019
Conservation and Spatial Justice in South African cities - Mon, Oct 28 2019
Combining Proximity Relations with Ontologies: Some Challenges - Wed, Oct 16 2019