Mathematicians share ideas

Posted on April 15, 2015

Following in this tradition, the scope of SANUM 2015 included the following:

  • Ordinary differential equations, modelling, associated numerical analysis
  • Partial differential equations, modelling, associated numerical analysis
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Biomathematics
  • Image analysis
  • Optimization and optimal control
  • Other (specify, e.g. Discrete mathematics and algorithms)

Special sessions were also presented in specific research fields namely Optimization and Control with Applications; Risk Analysis and Quantitative Finance as well as in Approximation Theory and Applications.

The plenary speakers, all high profile researchers from South Africa and abroad, entertained the 76 participants on a variety of topics:

Prof Montaz Ali (University of the Witwatersrand), Prof Jacek Banasiak (University of Kwazulu-Natal), Prof Claude Brezinski (University Lille, France), Prof Abba Gumel (Arizona State University, USA), Prof Andrzej Kijko (University of Pretoria), Prof Alfred Stein (University of Twente, Netherlands) and Prof Andre Weideman (University of Stellenbosch).

The formal proceedings were concluded with a gala lunch at the Sheraton hotel where postgraduate students received prizes in the following categories:

Best PhD Presentation

First Prize: M Fasondini (UFS)
Second prize: C Dufourd (UP)

Best MSc presentation

First Prize: L Janse van Rensburg (UP)

Best Poster Presentations

First Prize: MH Tshokotsha (US)
Second Prize: A Lau (UP)

A hearty word of congratulations to the local organising committee, chaired by Profs Roumen Anguelov and Nic van Rensburg and in particular to Dr Inger Fabris-Rotelli who was the main administrator of the symposium.  

- Author Ronel Oosthuizen

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