Faculty of Science events archive.

September 2016

Mineralogy and osmium isotope composition of placer platinum group element and gold grains recovered from offshore southern Namibia: Possible source rocks in the GariepBelt? - Tue, Sep 13 2016
Modelling species distributions when detection is not perfect - Mon, Sep 12 2016
Modelling species distributions when detection is not perfect - Mon, Sep 12 2016
Causes and considerations of the variation in growth strategies among temperate and tropical songbirds - Thu, Sep 8 2016
Studies of carbon, oxygen and strontium isotopes in tooth enamel: evaluating paleoenvironmental change in southwestern South Africa and expanding the paleoclimate tool kit - Thu, Sep 8 2016
Evolution of Bat Wing Development - Wed, Sep 7 2016
Parasitism and cooperation in the nests of carrion crows - Wed, Sep 7 2016
Nonlinear potential structures in two-dust (or ion) plasmas - Tue, Sep 6 2016
Melting mud and subducting atmosphere - Tue, Sep 6 2016
Models and Designs for Mixture Experiments - Mon, Sep 5 2016
Novel approaches to building the Dated Tree of Life and identifying its species - Fri, Sep 2 2016

August 2016

Statistical tools for evaluating potential geographical and niche overlap between species - Mon, Aug 29 2016
How do past soil records serve an indispensable proxy tool to a wide array of researchers? - Mon, Aug 29 2016
The performance and availability of mission critical transaction processing systems - Thu, Aug 25 2016
The Namib Desert, not an unlikely place to search for marine derived medicines. - Wed, Aug 24 2016
Explaining dark energy and dark matter. The Cosmology at the beginning of 21st century - Tue, Aug 23 2016
Sequential isotopic (δ13C, δ18O) analysis in sheep tooth enamel: inferring breeding strategies and altitudinal herd movements - Tue, Aug 23 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