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Reminder - NITheCS Colloquium: ‘A Century of Quantum: From Foundations to the Future’ - Prof Francesco Petruccione (NITheCS) - today @ 16h00. Register and attend online or at the Neelsie Cinema, Stellenbosch University.
#quantum #physics #science #iyq2025

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February 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Alex Zeeman & Karel Calitz of juizi.com present Open Source, Open Partnership: Building NITheCS on Plone and Volto

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#plone #volto #opensource #cms #ploneconf2026
September 24, 2026 at 1:49 PM
This Heritage Month, NITheCS is celebrating African excellence in data science. 🌍

Prof Paida Mhangara shares what the African Data Science Conference is all about.

#HeritageMonth #AfricanDataScience #NITheCS
September 24, 2026 at 7:14 AM
Reminder - NITheCS Colloquium: ‘A Century of Quantum: From Foundations to the Future’ - Prof Francesco Petruccione (NITheCS) - today @ 16h00 SAST. Register and attend online or at the Neelsie Cinema, Stellenbosch University. https://mailchi.mp/nithecs/fp-4961189 #quantum #physics #science #iyq2025
February 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
NITheCS Colloquium: ‘A Century of Quantum: From Foundations to the Future’ - Prof Francesco Petruccione (NITheCS) - Mon, 10 Feb @ 16h00 SAST Register and attend online or at the Neelsie Cinema, Stellenbosch University. https://mailchi.mp/nithecs/fp-4961189 #quantum #physics #science #iyq2025
February 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Join the NITheCS Micro-school: 'Introduction to Linux', presented by Dr Dean Brand (Stellenbosch University).
📅 Friday, 29 May 2026
⏰ 12h00–12h30 SAST
💻 Attend online
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#Linux #STEMEducation #ResearchComputing #LinuxIntroduction #OpenSource #NITheCS
May 25, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Last week we met with the @nithecs.bsky.social team at their
Stellenbosch office to discuss AI integration & improving the events page on nithecs.ac.za. Thanks to Francesco Petruccione, René Kotzé and Belinda Viret for the great session. Excited for our @plone.org strategy sprint in Jan '26!
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Reminder - NITheCS & CoRE AI Masterclass: 'A Practical Introduction to Reinforcement Learning' - Prof James Brusey (Coventry University, UK) - today @ 11h00-13h00 SAST. Attend online or in person. mailchi.mp/nithecs/mast... #opensource #reinforcementlearning #robotics #python #largelanguagemodels
April 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
💡 The National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences Mini-school online lecture series continues with its 3rd training session.

🕰️ Join at 14h00 TODAY
👉 Register here: mailchi.mp/nithecs/mini...

#OpenScience #DataCube #BiodiversityData
@suhealthsci.bsky.social @nithecs.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
NITheCS Mini-school
Join Dr Jan Blomerus and Franco Deacon (UFS) for 4 online lectures on how to build, train & deploy deep neural networks using Julia.
📅 Wed: 1, 15, 22 & 29 July
🕑 14h00 SAST
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#DeepLearning #NeuralNetworks #MachineLearning #JuliaLang #DataScience #RegressionAnalysis
June 29, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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
August 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🧠 On This Day — 30 Jan 📟 Douglas Engelbart (1925) — a trailblazer in human-computer interaction who co-invented the computer mouse, influencing modern digital interaction. #NITheCS #ScienceHistory #TechInnovation #Computing
January 29, 2026 at 10:00 PM
NITheCS & QSUN Seminar: ‘Bosonic network architectures for quantum simulation & thermodynamics' - Federico Centrone (Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain) - Fri, 30 Jan @ 14h00 SAST. Attend online or in person.
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#QuantumPhysics #QuantumSimulation #PhotonicSystems #TheoreticalPhysics
January 27, 2026 at 11:13 AM
NITheCS calendar... view the events taking place this week, as well as upcoming deadlines, dates, student funding opportunities, grants, calls and contests.
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#science #mathematics #studentfunding #scholarship #fellowship
July 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Reminder - NITheCS Colloquium: 'Did we just reach Artificial General Intelligence?' - Prof Bruce Bassett (SU, UCT & WITS) - today @ 16h00 SAST. Attend in person or online. buff.ly/s7eoDRO
#AI #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence
September 8, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Join us for the NITheCS Colloquium:
‘The Life and Legacy of Emmy Noether: The Forgotten Architect of Modern Physics’
🎙️Dhiya Dharampal (SU) & Raphael De Sousa (NITheCS)
📅 Mon, 6 July
🕓 16h00–17h00 SAST
📍 Attend in person or online
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#NITheCS #EmmyNoether #GeneralRelativity #WomenInSTEM
June 26, 2026 at 11:08 AM
NITheCS Colloquium: ‘Quantum Complexity and Entanglement in Neutrino Oscillations’ by Prof Soebur Razzaque (UJ).
📅 Monday, 2 November 2026
🕓 16h00–17h00 SAST
📍 Attend in person or online
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#QuantumPhysics #NeutrinoOscillations #QuantumEntanglement #QuantumInformation #ParticlePhysics
September 22, 2026 at 10:31 AM
NITheCS & SU Seminar
“A No-Bullshit Guide to Programming with LLMs in R”
🗣️ Hadley Wickham (Posit PBC, US)
📅 Thurs, 20 November 2025 | 16:00-17h00 SAST
Join us online or in person. Refreshments will be served.
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#LargeLanguageModels #LLM #RStats #DataScience #Ellmer
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Thanks for joining NITheCS colloquium "Growing Pains: Working, thinking and trusting in the age of AI " led by Dr Dean Brand (Stellenbosch University) We appreciate both audiences.
September 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM
NITheCS calendar... view the events taking place this week, as well as upcoming deadlines, dates, student funding opportunities and grants. mailchi.mp/nithecs/diar...
#science #mathematics #studentfunding #scholarship #grants #sciencecalendar
February 16, 2026 at 3:20 PM
The 14 March NITheCS Micro-School titled ‘Introduction to Xarray: Empowering Multidimensional Data Analysis’ by Marco Wolsza (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany) may now be viewed online at buff.ly/jLJ4KKI.
March 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The recording of the 28 February NITheCS Micro-School ‘Introduction to Plotly – Creating Interactive Visualisations in Python’ by Amy Rouillard (Stellenbosch University) is now available to view online at buff.ly/o5jGbYU
March 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
NITheCS Webinar: 'Fluctuation Effects in Open Many Body Systems' - Dr Ameneh Sheikhan (University of Bonn, Germany) - Fri, 6 Feb @ 15h00-16h00 SAST. Attend online or in person.
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#TheoreticalPhysics #ManyBodyPhysics #QuantumSystems #ManyBodySystems
February 5, 2026 at 7:11 AM
NITheCS Mini-school: 'An Introduction to Quantum Biology' by Dr Betony Adams (Stellenbosch University). Attend 4 lectures online – taking place on Wed 7, 14, 21 & 28 May 2025 @ 14h00-15h00 SAST. buff.ly/itI4ok9
#quantum #biology #quantumbiology #iyq2025
April 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🌌 On This Day — 10 April 2019
The first-ever image of a black hole was released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.A breakthrough combining physics, mathematics, and global data science collaboration.#NITheCS #Astrophysics #DataScience #OnThisDay
April 9, 2026 at 10:00 PM