Faculty of Science events archive.
November 2024
Ben Feringa on the Art of Building Small - Fri, Nov 1 2024
October 2024
Campus tour - Fri, Oct 25 2024
Alumni Film Festival - Fri, Oct 25 2024
UCT Day Cycleathon and Rowathon challenge - Fri, Oct 25 2024
UCT Day: on the Cricket Oval - Fri, Oct 25 2024
UCT Inaugural Lecture: Professor Marcello Vichi - Mon, Oct 21 2024
Rising Star - Distinguished Alumni Lectures - Fri, Oct 18 2024
Inaugural Lecture of Professor Amanda Weltman - Tue, Oct 8 2024
November 2023
Alice in Wonder Lab: Jack Elsworth Lecture - Thu, Nov 30 2023
Smashing Discoveries: A journey to the origin of matter and the universe - Fri, Nov 24 2023
October 2023
The FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology: birds as keys to ecology, evolution, and conservation - Thu, Oct 26 2023
September 2023
The Modelling and Simulation Hub, Africa: Using mathematics to understand and manage disease - Tue, Sep 26 2023
August 2023
The UCT Holis'c Drug Discovery and Development Research Centre: Introduction & Overview - Tue, Aug 29 2023
Every Little Thing's Gonna Be Alright On The Internet: Tales of Trust, Privacy, and Inclusivity - Thu, Aug 24 2023
From Smart Sensing to Smart Living: The Era of IoT, AI/ML and Data Science - Fri, Aug 18 2023
The Impact of VR and Working in VR software Development Startup - Thu, Aug 17 2023
June 2023
An Introduction and Overview of BIOGRIP - Science Faculty Research Seminar - Tue, Jun 20 2023
Science Faculty 2023 Post-Doc Day - Tue, Jun 6 2023
May 2023
UCT Science Faculty Dean's Dialogue Decoloniality and Science - Thu, May 25 2023
Digital literacy promoting higher education online capacity - Thu, May 25 2023
The Marine and Antarctic Research centre for Innovation and Sustainability and its role in South African polar research - Thu, May 18 2023
April 2023
UCT Science Faculty Dean's Dialogue How to build and maintain research excellence - Thu, Apr 13 2023
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