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Reminder – NITheCS Colloquium: ‘Quantum Computing, a new toolbox for Stochastic Analysis & Machine Learning' – Prof Jack Jacquier (ICL) – Mon, 18 Aug @ 16h00 SAST. Attend in person or online. buff.ly/GVR34mW
#QuantumComputing #StochasticAnalysis #MachineLearning #iyq2025

NITheCS Mini-school: 'Hands-On Introduction to Quantum Computing with PennyLane' - Abbas (Omid) Hassasfar (Stellenbosch University) – Wed 13, 20 & 27 Aug 2025 @ 14h00-15h00 SAST. Register and attend online. buff.ly/apbAPIM
#QuantumComputing #PennyLane #Teleportation

NITheCS Colloquium: ‘Quantum Computing, a new toolbox for Stochastic Analysis & Machine Learning' - Prof Jack Jacquier (Imperial College London, UK) - Mon, 18 Aug 2025 @ 16h00-17h00 SAST. Attend in person or online. buff.ly/cbvb2bJ
#QuantumComputing #StochasticAnalysis #MachineLearning #iyq2025

NITheCS Colloquium: ‘Beyond Einstein: Unravelling cosmic phenomena in modified gravity' - Dr Chevarra Hansraj (Stellenbosch University) - Mon, 11 Aug @ 16h00-17h00 SAST. Attend in person or online.
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#cosmology #gravity #einstein #egb #theoreticalphysics #gaussbonnet

Reminder - MUST Deep Learning Scholarships... funding for students who want to study for Master's and PhD degrees in 2026. Applications close on 15 Aug 2025.
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#Scholarships #AI #DeepLearning #SpaceWeather #MachineLearning

Stellenbosch University recently hosted ten of the interns who participated in the 2025 NITheCS Winter Internship Programme. The Honours students from across South Africa participated in a unique and intensive project titled ‘Introduction to Quantum Computing.’ More here: buff.ly/vNViUg4

QSUN, SAQuTI & NITheCS Seminar: ‘Demystifying graviton detection' - Prof Igor Pikovski (SIT, USA & Stockholm University) - Thurs, 7 Aug 2025 @ 14h00-15h00 SAST. Attend online or in person.
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#quantum #graviton #theoreticalphysics #iyq2025

NITheCS calendar... view the events taking place this week, as well as upcoming deadlines, dates, student funding opportunities, grants, calls, competitions and careers.
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#science #mathematics #studentfunding #scholarship #fellowship #academiccareers #grant

Reminder - NITheCS Colloquium: ‘Beyond Detection: Reimagining Higher Education's Response to AI' - Prof Sioux McKenna (Rhodes University) - today @ 16h00-17h00 SAST. Attend in person or online.
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#GenerativeAI #AI #HigherEducation #CriticalAI #AIandEducation

QSUN, SAQuTI & NITheCS Seminar: ‘Divide-and-Conquer Simulation of Open Quantum Systems’ - Prof Nadja Kolb Bernardes (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil) - Fri, 8 Aug 2025 @ 14h00-15h00 SAST. Attend online or in person. buff.ly/klahRhB
#openquantumsystem #quantum #physics #iyq2025

Our featured scientist is currently physicist Prof R Du Toit Strauss of North-West University (NWU) and Head of Node (North) of NITheCS. Read more about his work and background as scientist at buff.ly/Nd1SEd2

... project leader Philip Walther, a physicist at the University of Vienna. The new quantum computer fills a volume of 3 litres and uses about 10 watts of power — similar to a typical LED light bulb.
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Science snippet: The first quantum computer in space is now orbiting Earth on a satellite, according to Science News. Space-based quantum computers could allow tests of fundamental physics principles in a new environment, according to (more ...)

Science-related anniversary: Polish-born French physicist Georges Charpak, born 1 August 1924, was awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics ‘for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber.’

The NITheCS Colloquium: 'A Brief History of Open Quantum Systems' by Dr Graeme Pleasance is available to view online at our YouTube channel:
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MITP & NITheCS Seminar: 'Global analyses of ultrarelativistic heavy ions in the LHC era' – Prof Wilke van der Schee (Utrecht University, Netherlands, & CERN) – Tues, 5 Aug @ 13h15 SAST. Register to attend online or in person. buff.ly/nzWDqbu
#HighEnergyPhysics #LHC #RelativisticHydrodynamics #CERN

Anniversary: American biochemist Paul D. Boyer (born 31 Jul 1918) was awarded half the 1997 Nobel Prize for Chemistry together with John E. Walker, ‘for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).'’ buff.ly/K4psPLz

led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle.’ Townes began an astrophysical programme at the Univ. of California, Berkeley that produced several important discoveries such as the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy.https://buff.ly/0NZK92O

Science history: One half of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to US physicist Charles Hard Townes (born 28 July 1915) and the other half jointly to Nicolay G Basov & Aleksandr M Prokhorov for their ‘fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, that has (more...)

Science history: One half of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to US physicist Charles Hard Townes (born 28 July 1915) and the other half jointly to Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov & Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov for their ‘fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, (more...)

QSUN, SAQuTI & NITheCS Seminar: ‘Encoding topological qubits using higher lattice gauge theory model’ by Dr Latévi M. Lawson (AIMS, Ghana)
📅 Fri, 1 Aug @ 14h00 SAST
📍 Online & in person
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#TopologicalQubits #LatticeGaugeTheory #HigherGaugeTheory #QuantumTopology #iyq2025

National Science Week 2025 launches in 3 days - on 2 August! Activities take place from 4 to 9 August throughout the country. More information here: buff.ly/UBcf38v

... good questions - made me become a scientist.’ -
— Isidor Isaac Rabi ( born 29 July 1898), Austrian-American physicist, Nobel prize laureate (1944) buff.ly/QB0IrEt

Science quote: ‘‘My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, “So? Did you learn anything today?” But not my mother. … “Izzy,” she would say, “did you ask a good question today?” That difference - asking (more...)

Reminder - the deadline to nominate new NITheCS Associates is Thursday, 31 July 2025. Only current Associates may nominate eligible individuals. Find our more: buff.ly/eDf59dr
#Science #Mathematics #NITheCS

Thank you to Dr Graeme Pleasance for today’s NITheCS Colloquium, ‘A Brief History of Open Quantum Systems’. We appreciate your time, insights, and the clarity with which you shared this complex and fascinating topic. Thank you for an engaging and thought-provoking presentation!

Our August Newsletter has been emailed to our subscribers. You can also read it here:
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#science #physics #theoreticalphysics #mathematics

Thank you to everyone joining us—both online and in person—for today’s NITheCS Colloquium ‘A Brief History of Open Quantum Systems’, presented by Dr Graeme Pleasance from Stellenbosch University. We truly appreciate your presence and interest in this fascinating topic.

Science history: One half of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to US physicist Charles Hard Townes (born 28 July 1915) and the other half jointly to Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov for their ‘fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, (more...)

Science-related quote: ‘We cannot get more out of the mathematical mill than we put into it, though we may get it in a form infinitely more useful for our purpose.’ - John Hopkinson (English physicist and electrical engineer born 27 July 1849 investigated applications of electricity & magnetism)