Durban – A team of world renowned scientists based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal has launched a fundraising campaign to support the analysis of Covid-19 data – which could
Quantum Research Chair Appointed as New Director of National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Science
Professor Francesco Petruccione, the South African Research Chair for Quantum Information Processing and Communication (QIPC) and founder of UKZN’s Centre for Quantum Technology, has been appointed the interim
Open Data Analysis in Epidemiology Helps Control Outbreaks
Pro Vice-Chancellor of Big Data and Informatics and South African Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing and Communication at UKZN, Professor Francesco Petruccione recently hosted a breakfast seminar titled
Will Africa miss the next computational revolution?
One may argue that the future of quantum computing is rather uncertain. Its success rests heavily on the development of large-scale quantum devices that can perform universal computation. That being
Big Data daily update for COVID-19 in Africa: Epidemiology & Genomics
Together with the Big Data group of UKZN, we started a daily update of the data on COVID-19 in Africa. All of the scripts for generation of the data is
Big Data for Science and Society Flagships Project Workshop Promotes Transdisciplinary Research
Every researcher knows that working together across academic disciplines is notoriously hard. Even seemingly related scientific fields – such as computer science and information technologies – are often
data@breakfast 28 February 2020 photos
Photos from data@breakfast 28 February 2020 can be seen here.
FNB takes a quantum leap in computing
Regarded as one of the local banks at the forefront of digital innovation, FNB has collaborated with the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s School of Chemistry and Physics, to conduct research
Computer Science Students Attend Summer School
Computer Science Master’s students from UKZN attended the 10th CHPC Introductory Programming School and the 2nd NITheP Foundations of Theoretical and Computational Science Summer School from 1 to
Summer School 2020 surrounding photos
Some surrounding photos including few panoramas from the NITheP&CHPC Summer School 1-9 February 2020 can be seen here.




