Events
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Big Data Breakfast: Off The World and Above – Dr. Adriana Marais
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Nithep Seminar: Prof J.Hey: On the possible existence of elements of atomic number greater than 1/α: some thoughts on the Periodic Table after 150 years
Abstract: With the recent completion of the 7th period under the 18th group of the noble gases, the Periodic Table has arrived at an ‘historic landmark’ 150 years after the publication of Dmitri Mendeleev’s original version. The intriguing question arises as to whether the Table will be extended as far as, or even beyond, an
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Nithep Seminar: Prof. Barbra Drossel: Contextual wave function collapse: Steps of a measurement process
Abstract: This talk presents a theoretical treatment of the measurement process that takes into account all the steps between the initial arrival of the particle at the detector and the final pointer deflection. By using methods from the respectively relevant fields of physics, it becomes clear that only the first step, the initial creation of
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Seminar: Professor George F R Ellis: How can agency be compatible with physics?
Life emerges out of physics in a bottom-up way: atoms are made of electrons and protons, molecules of atoms, cells of molecules, physiological systems (including brains) out of cells, and organisms out of physiological systems. How can agency, which manifestly occurs in this context, be compatible with physics in the physical world? Emergence of higher
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Open quantum systems meeting
4th Floor Board Room, Physics BuildingIn this week's open quantum systems meeting Hazmatally will present some of his research on non-repeating open quantum walks. Starting 2 pm, 4th floor broad room.
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Quantum Computing Workshop
Blue LAN, H1 Building, UKZN WestvilleRegistration link.
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Data Breakfast: “The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX): Big Data Challenges”.
data@breakfast Friday 30 August 2019 7:00 am for 7:30am to 8:30am This month’s talk is by Devin Crichton, a senior postdoc researcher on HIRAX. Devin will be speaking about: “The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX): Big Data Challenges” Abstract The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) is a radio telescope array to built in
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Quantum Africa 5
Stellenbosch Stellenbosch, South AfricaThe Quantum Africa conference series aims to engender exchanges and collaborations between African countries and between Africa and the rest of the world, enable Africa to play a leading research and development role in quantum science and technology, raise African stakeholder awareness of opportunities. The conference has a track record of success having started in
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Open quantum systems meeting
4th Floor Board Room, Physics BuildingIn the open quantum systems meeting of this week our visitor Revanth will present some of his research (see below). Starting at 2 pm, 4th floor broad room. Speaker: Revanth Badveli Title: Low-Rank Matrix Recovery Abstract: I this talk, I will discuss the problem of reconstructing an unknown low-rank matrix from a few entries. I