• data@breakfast: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

    Senate Chamber, Westville Campus, UKZN Durban, South Africa

    data@breakfast Friday 27 September 2019 7:00 am for 7:30am to 8:30am This month’s talk is by Brad Mears, a consultant working mainly in the health sector, but has a passion for all aspects of aviation. Brad is actively exploring how drones can positively transform our society.  His talk is titled:  “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)” Abstract With drone technology capable

  • Open quantum systems meeting

    NITheP Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Physics Westville Campus, UKZN, Durban, South Africa

    This week our open quantum system meeting will be tomorrow since Revanth will give one more talk (and he leaves on Thursday morning). It will be at 2 pm in the 3th floor seminar room (see the abstract below). Abstract: In this talk, I will briefly review quantum state tomography via compressed sensing  . I

  • Group Meeting

    NITheP Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Physics Westville Campus, UKZN, Durban, South Africa

    The next group meeting will take place on Friday, 8 November, at 14:00 in the Seminar Room.   Agenda to be emailed.  

  • Vinayak – General talk

    NITheP Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Physics Westville Campus, UKZN, Durban, South Africa

    Vinayak - General talk

  • Data@Breakfast: “What is your quantum advantage?”

    Council Chamber, Westville Campus, UKZN Durban

    Please note that this month’s breakfast will take place on the first Friday of December since it is the last breakfast of the year! This month’s talk is by Professor Francesco Petruccione titled: “What is your Quantum Advantage?” A new quantum era is knocking at the doors of high-performance computing. In October this year, a

  • Anesan – General talk

    Skills development talk - Networking (even for the socially awkward).

  • Adenilton Silva – General Meeting

    NITheP Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Physics Westville Campus, UKZN, Durban, South Africa

    Dr. Adenilton Silva will present a talk titled - "Neural Network architecture selection on classical, quantum, and NISQ computers".

  • Data@Breakfast: “What kind of future does blockchain technology provide society?”

    Senate Chamber, Westville Campus, UKZN Durban, South Africa

    The first data@breakfast for 2020 will be given by a very engaging invited speaker, James Preston. James is a deeply philosophical tech and media entrepreneur who wants to inspire people to build a better world! He started in radio at 16 years old and eventually started South Africa’s first podcast. He studied Marketing and Design, and started his first