Conferences @ Wits

2012

Igneous and Metamorphic Studies Group (IMSG) Annual Meeting 2012
15 -18 January 2012
Designed to showcase current research in the broad fields of igneous and metamorphic petrology, as well as initiate and direct future research by facilitating interactions between scientists, industry representatives and students.  

Symmetries, Differential Equations and Applications: Galois Bicentenary (SDEA2012)
23 - 27 January 2012 
This conference commemorates the bicentenary of the birth of Évariste Galois who introduced the notion of a group and made fundamental contributions to the solution of polynomial equations. 

Beyond Normative Approaches: Everyday Media Culture in Africa
27 - 29 February 2012 
An international conference organized by the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan and with support from the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster

South African Symposium on Numerical and Applied Mathematics
2 - 4 April 2012

Computational and Mathematical Modelling Symposium
Saturday 21 April 2012
In Honour of Tony Starfield on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday 

PowerAfrica 2012
9-13 July 2012 
Intelligent Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Resources 

Health Sciences Research Day 2012
19 September 2012 
Every two years, the Faculty of Health Sciences hosts a Research Day and Postgraduate Expo.

International Corporate Governance Conference
22 - 23 October 2012
Corporate Governance: Much ado about nothing or strategic value added

2011

Mathematics in Industry Study Group South Africa (MISGSA) 2011
10 January - 14 January 2011
A Mathematics in Industry Study Group is a five-day workshop at which academic researchers and graduate students work collaboratively with representatives from industry on research problems submitted by local industry.

Apartheid Archive Research Project
27 - 29 July 2011
"Narratives, Nostalgia, Nationhoods". The 3rd Apartheid Archive Conference to be held at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Afrca 

Perspectives on Identifying High Potential Candidates for Higher Education: Transformation or Elitism?
5-7 October 2011
Within the Higher Education sector graduate output has become a priority, as it has failed to match the developing needs of South Africa. This is reflected in the shortage of high level skills within the sphere of academia and the workplace.

ICTAC 2011
31 August - 2 September 2011
ICTAC 2011 is the 8th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, the latest in a series founded by the International Institute for Software Technology of the United Nations University (UNU-IIST). 

SSAG - Annual Student Conference
12 – 13 September 2011
The School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies will be hosting the Annual Student Conference for the Society of South African Geographers

SANORD - Southern African Nordic Centre
27 - 30 November 2011 
Deepening Collaboration between Southern African and Nordic Higher Education for shared solutions to Research Capacity Development

2010

SAAHE (South African Association of Health Educationalists)
22 - 24 July 2010
The 2010 S HE conference is hosted by the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand in collaboration with the Tshwane University of Technology and the Universities of Johannesburg, Limpopo, North West and Pretoria.

Sixth International Geoscience Education Conference (GeoSciEd VI)

"Geoscience Education - Developing the World", 30 August - 3 September 2010, Johannesburg, South Africa

Globalisation and Governance Conference, 14 - 16 October 2010

The Mandela Institute in the School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is convening an international conference on the subject of The Challenges of Globalisation for Constitutional and Corporate Governance.
The Governance Conference is designed to consider, analyse and evaluate current trends in the governance of the global political economy and their implications for governance of the nation-state and the contemporary corporation. The conference will explore the themes of continuity and discontinuity in the governance systems, bringing cross-disciplinary perspectives to bear on all topics.

IEASA Conference
Current and Future contributions of Higher Education Internationalisation in Africa s development
28 August - 1 September 2010

2009

Mathematics in Industry Study Group in South Africa (MISGSA)
Monday 26th January to Friday 30 January 2009
Sixth MISGSA conference held in the School of Computational and Applied Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand