Events

The University of KwaZulu-Natal presents the 2nd  in a series of Public Webinars FAKE NEWS, LOCKDOWN AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES by Judge Zakeria Mohammed “Zak” Yacoob Facilitated by Professor Francesco Petruccione (UKZN) Fake news is news that consists of deliberate misinformation or hoaxes spread using traditional  or social media. With most of the world's population under lockdown

Abstract: It has been demonstrated in tests and integrated circuit devices that ferritin is capable of supporting quantum electron transport by hopping and tunneling. Ferritin also accumulates in catecholaminergic neurons around neuromelanin organelles, with a structure that is similar to thatused in those integrated circuit devices. Neuromelanin is a pi-conjugated polymer, and the structure and

You are invited to the next data@breakfast for 2020 given byDr Richard Lessells. His talk is titled: “Responding to the COVID-19 epidemic: an update” Dr Richard Lessells is an Infectious Diseases Specialist at KRISP, UKZN. He trained as an infectious diseases and internal medicine physician in the UK and has a PhD from the London

Title: A strategy for finding people infected with COVID-19: optimising the efficiency of pooled testing Abstract: Suppressing COVID-19 will likely require us to rapidly identify and isolate infected individuals, on an ongoing basis. However, RT-PCR tests are costly, making regular testing of every individual extremely expensive. In this talk we present a way to reduce

You are invited to the next data@breakfast for 2020 given by Prof Mosa Moshabela. His talk is titled: “The national debate on Smoking and COVID-19: is the current evidence enough to support the regulation?” The event will be hosted via Zoom. RSVP here   Professor Mosa Moshabela is the Dean and Head in the School

Anna Collard is currently Managing Director of Popcorn Training/KnowBe4 Africa where she drives security awareness across the African continent. She has been working in the cybersecurity field as a security architect and consultant for 18 years, where she has assisted organizations across South Africa, Europe, and the U.S. Collard founded security content publisher Popcorn Training,

Abstract: We will present work on three separate research fronts all of which relate to the central theme of forecasting the impact of COVID-19 oon South Africa.  The first part addresses whether we can expect relief from the BCG vaccine, how much worse the spread of the virus will be in winter and the effect

Abstract:  To understand the typical dynamics of an open quantum system we introduce an ensemble of random Lindblad operators, which generate completely positive Markovian evolution in the space of the density matrices. The spectral properties of these operators, including the shape of the eigenvalue distribution in the complex plane, are evaluated by using methods of free

Abstract: Modelling the spread of epidemics has a long history and applies a number of concepts from applied mathematics and statistics to public health. I will review this subject from a largely historical perspective and try to explain why the different models do not agree. I will also try to explain some of the challenges

Abstract: On 4 April Dr Richard Lessells, Prof Yunus Moosa and Prof Tulio de Oliveira were tasked with conducting an outbreak investigation at St. Augustine’s Hospital in Durban, where 13 COVID-19 cases had been detected and two deaths had been recorded. Over the next few weeks, they pieced together how the virus had entered the