UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG

Programme

Saturday 21 April 2012
Venue: Senate House 1126, First Floor, East Wing, Senate House
8.00 – 9.00 Registration
Tea, coffee and biscuits
Morning session        Chair: Michael Sears  
9.00 – 9.30 Opening ceremony
Professor Andrew Crouch, Dean of Science
9.30 – 10.00 Tony Starfield
Ubiquitous modelling
10.00 – 10.20              MORNING TEA
10.20 – 10.40              John Field
Modelling plankton production
10.45 – 11.05              Astrid Jarre
Starfield ripples
11.10 – 11.30              Michael Mitchley
Modelling in deep sea sonar
11.30 – 11.45              BREAK
11.45 – 12.05              Norman Owen-Smith
Stability and resilience in seasonal oscillators
12.10 – 12.30              David Richardson
Modelling the dynamics of complex systems in a highly variable environment
12.35 – 12.55              Jo Shaw
How can modelling help save the rhino
13.00 – 14.00              LUNCH
CAM Common room
Afternoon session     Chair: David Mason  
14.00 – 15.30 Rhino session
14.00 – 14.20  Panel discussion:
David Cumming
Norman Owen-Smith
Invited members
14.15 – 15.10 Study groups
15.10 – 15.30 Report back by study groups
15.30 – 15.50  AFTERNOON TEA
15.50 – 16.10  Dario Fanucchi
Agent tracking and resource allocation on a network
16.15 – 16.35  Asha Tailor
Gravitational torques of nearby barred spiral galaxies
16.40 – 17.00   Rhameez Herbst
Stellar structure
17.00 – 17.15 BREAK
17.15 – 17.35  Ashleigh Hutchinson
Extraction of sugar from shredded cane in a diffuser
17.40 – 18.00 Rahab Kgatle
Rising water table and seismicity
18.05 – 18.25 Gideon Fareo
On the approximate solutions to fluid-driven fracture problems
18.30 – 18.40 Closing ceremony
Tony Starfield
Ebrahim Momoniat, Head of School of Computational and Applied Mathematics
19.00 for 19.30 DINNER
Hofmeyr House