Prof Dephney Mathebula-Periola recently announced her NITheCS Colloquium on radio. Her talk, “Smart Crawlers for Infectious Disease Modelling,” explores how intelligent digital crawlers can improve data collection for disease modelling and support faster public health decisions.

Reminder: NITheCS Colloquium: "Smart Crawlers for Infectious Disease Modelling: Automating Data Acquisition in the Digital Age" by Dephney Mathebula-Periola. 📅 Mon, 15 Jun @ 4pm SAST buff.ly/UGR4dmS #DigitalEpidemiology #InfectiousDiseaseModelling #DataScienceForHealth

2026 NITheCS FameLab SA Heat Winners Winner: Kaela Kokkas First Runner-Up: Vitalis Mbayo Third Runner-Up: Courtney Brown NITheCS congratulates the winners on their outstanding performances and celebrates their role in making science clear, engaging, and accessible.

When I learned about the anomalies of the planet Mercury, it made me think that it could be due to the existence of another planet, which led me to learn that the Frenchman Le Verrier had tried to observe it in 1859. drive.google.com/file/d/1Jgi…

NITheCS & UKZN Seminar: ‘Platypus Stars: Self-Gravitating Vacuum Compact Objects’ by Prof Gonzalo J. Olmo. 📅 Fri, 12 Jun 🕚 11:00 SAST 📍 Attend in person or online buff.ly/pP3H1rM #PlatypusStars #TheoreticalPhysics #GeneralRelativity #BlackHole #AstrophysicsResearch

Thank you, Dr Hanelie Adendorff and Ms Sukaina Walji for an incredible colloquium on "When the proxy breaks: What GenAI reveals about assessment ." Such an insightful session! Recording coming soon on the NITheCS YouTube Channel.

Join us for a NITheCS & QSUN Seminar: ‘A Gentle Introduction to Experimental Semiconductor Physics’ 🎙️ Jo-Marie Rossouw (UWC) 📅 Fri, 12 Jun @ 14h00 📍 Attend in person or online buff.ly/Ci1hqqj #SemiconductorPhysics #QuantumMaterials #CondensedMatterPhysics #Nanoscience

Join the free online NITheCS Mini-school for June: "The Geometry of Constraints: From Dirac's Formalism to the Batalin–Tyutin Construction." Register here: nithecs-ac-za.zoom.us/webina…

Thanks for joining NITheCS colloquium "When the proxy breaks: What GenAI reveals about assessment " led by Dr Hanelie Adendorff (Stellenbosch University) and Ms Sukaina Walji (University of Cape Town) . We appreciate both audiences

Dr Hanelie Adendorff and Ms Sukaina Walji were live on MFM Radio, joined by NITheCS Director Prof Francesco Petruccione, to speak about their NITheCS Colloquium on GenAI and assessment.

🎓 Reminder: Students planning to pursue postgraduate studies in 2027 - complete the NITheCS Pre-Call Form by 31 May 2026 to register your interest in funding and then apply for NRF funding. buff.ly/mnGZuWn #StudentFunding #PostgraduateFunding #NRFFunding #Bursary

NITheCS & QSUN Seminar: 'Can Neutrinos Hear the Echoes of Quantum Spacetime? Open-System Decoherence in Neutrino Oscillations' 🎙️ Dr Partha Nandi (NITheCS) 📅 Fri, 29 May @ 14h00 📍 Attend in person or online buff.ly/3wHf92W #Neutrinos #QuantumGravity #QuantumSpacetime

Thank you all for joining today's NITheCS Colloquium "Connecting Quarks to the Cosmos and People to Science " led by Dr Thuthukile Khumalo (iThemba LABS & NITheCS) . We appreciate our in-person and online audience!

NITheCS & QSUN webinar by Prof Alessio Zaccone: ‘Relativistic Langevin equation as a microscopic route to relativistic viscosity for QCD matter’. 📅 Fri, 22 May ⏰ 14h00 SAST 📍 Watch in person or online buff.ly/s9jiDCV #RelativisticPhysics #LangevinEquation #QCD

Professors at the School for Data Science and Computational Thinking at Stellenbosch University keep on delivering! Watch this space. @SUDataSchool @StellenboschUni @ceri_news @SACEMA_SU @NITheCS.

New research out in Physical Review Research! Could the "fuzziness" of quantum spacetime be the ultimate source of neutrino decoherence? We developed an open-system framework showing that—contrary to popular belief—low-energy neutrinos (like the Cosmic Neutrino Background) might be our best window into Planck-scale physics. The twist? While high-energy neutrinos remain stable, the strongest effects of spacetime noise emerge at the extreme low-energy regime ($E^{-4}$ scaling). Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1103/qm1b-snfj #QuantumGravity #Neutrinos #Physics #NITheCS #IceCube #PTOLEMY #StellenboschUniversity #OpenQuantumSystems

Join the NITheCS Colloquium: ‘Smart Crawlers for Infectious Disease Modelling: Automating Data Acquisition’ with Prof Dephney Mathebula-Periola. 📅 Mon, 11 May ⏰ 16h00 SAST 📍 Attend online or in person 🔗 buff.ly/YTmYuGD #DigitalEpidemiology #InfectiousDiseaseModelling