Faculty of Science events archive.

August 2016

Magma plumbing for the 2014-2015 Holuhraun eruption, Iceland/Augite and enstatite pyroxene standards for SIMS oxygen isotope analysis and their application to Merapi volcano, Sundra arc, Indonesia - Tue, Aug 23 2016
Some Problems in Forestry and Ecology Related to Stand Management - Mon, Aug 22 2016
Innovation Talk by Derivco’s Research and Development Team - Thu, Aug 18 2016
Regulation of desiccation tolerance in X. humilis leaves and seedlings - Wed, Aug 17 2016
Dental maturation of Paranthropus robustus from Swartkrans: an isotopic perspective - Wed, Aug 17 2016
Megacity transitions in the risk-development relationship: A Faculty of Science Special Research Seminar co-hosted by ACDI - Wed, Aug 17 2016
Stellar "GPS": Navigation in the Solar System - Tue, Aug 16 2016
Details of the gabbro-to-eclogite transition determined from microtextures and calculated chemical potential relations - Tue, Aug 16 2016
Robust joint modelling of longitudinal and survival data in a competing risk setting - Mon, Aug 15 2016
Metalloporphyrin catalyzed oxidation and hydrogenation of carbon-carbon single bond with water - Thu, Aug 4 2016
Galaxy Clustering and the galaxy-halo connection in the Deep Multi-Wavelength Surveys - Tue, Aug 2 2016
Seismicity in southern Africa- an update on the UCT seismic array - Tue, Aug 2 2016
Adaptations to locomotion in the primate pelvis: implications for human evolution - Tue, Aug 2 2016

July 2016

Undulations of urban life: experiences and temporalities of growing up on the streets of Accra, Ghana - Thu, Jul 28 2016
"They Keep Coming Back Like Zombies”: Improving Software Updating Interfaces - Thu, Jul 28 2016
Predisposed to Exercise- and Occupational-Associated Musculoskeletal Tissue Injuries - Wed, Jul 27 2016
Shaking up the family tree: Uranium-lead dating human origins in South Africa - Tue, Jul 26 2016
Interpreting First Peoples Bison Kills at Heritage Parks in the Great Plains of North America - Mon, Jul 25 2016
The effect of blue light exposure on circadian resynchronisation following artificially induced jet-lag: Does PER3 VNTR genotype explain individual variation - Wed, Jul 20 2016
Mechanics of plate boundary scale faults: how do creeping faults work? - Tue, Jul 19 2016
A Multiple Functional Linear model - Mon, Jul 18 2016
Conference of SA Institute of Physics - Mon, Jul 4 - Fri, Jul 8 2016

June 2016

Predictive modelling for rhino anti-poaching operations - Wed, Jun 8 2016
The software of life: Physics special colloquium - Wed, Jun 1 2016

May 2016

Test-Driven Development of Ontologies - Thu, May 26 2016
Getting up close with desert dust: why small-scale characteristics matter - Tue, May 24 2016
Animation principles within a interface design as a methodology to surprise, delight, engage users - Thu, May 19 2016
Winds of change in the Cedarberg Formation: Did dust blown from a glacial landscape fertilize the ocean after the end-Ordovician glaciation? - Tue, May 17 2016
Lessons from Edward Snowden - Thu, May 12 2016
There and back again: a gabbro tale - Tue, May 10 2016
Big Data: The Future Today - Tue, May 10 2016
Forests, trees, needles and haystacks: searching for bioactive natural products from medicinal plants and their endophytes - Mon, May 9 2016
Statistical Sciences Postgraduate Seminar - Mon, May 9 2016
1st year out of Varsity - Experiences of 3 recent CompSci Hons Graduates - Thu, May 5 2016
Hidden mantle reservoirs: Do they exist and how do we find them? - Tue, May 3 2016

April 2016

Bayesian Extensions to Generalized Linear Mixed Effects Models for Household Tuberculosis Transmission - Fri, Apr 29 2016
Ichnostratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic of Lesotho and South Africa - Tue, Apr 26 2016
Out of control Diagnosis using Multivariate Statistical Process Monitoring Techniques - Mon, Apr 25 2016
Recurrent Neural Networks for System Identification and Forecasting - Thu, Apr 21 2016
Double-header Geological Sciences Seminar - Tue, Apr 19 2016
UCT Open Day 2016 - Sat, Apr 16 2016
Stratigraphic Framework of the Kirkwood Formation in the Southern Cape region: invertebrate-based biostratigraphy & zircon geochronology - Fri, Apr 15 2016
High and Dry - sampling volcanoes in the Atacama, Northern Chile - Tue, Apr 12 2016
Towards a global classification systme of alien taxa according to their impacts - Mon, Apr 11 2016
Neural Machine Translation - Thu, Apr 7 2016
Proterozoic sub-continental lithospheric mantle beneath southern Africa: An investigation of garnet and spinel peridotites - Tue, Apr 5 2016

March 2016

Open Data Kit - Thu, Mar 17 2016
About bloody time — studying circadian rhythms in human blood cells. - Thu, Mar 17 2016
Variations in MOR magmatism and carbon emission driven by glacial cycles - Tue, Mar 15 2016
What we can learn from ancient DNA - Mon, Mar 14 2016