Posted on December 16, 2019
What started off as a departmental initiative grew exponentially and culminated in an awards ceremony where excellence in teaching was celebrated at Faculty level. At the last FLY@NAS event for 2019, cluster awards in all four clusters (Biological Sciences, Food and Agricultural Sciences,...
Posted on October 30, 2019
The WESPAC scrabble world championship is held every two years. This year, it was in the magical place of Goa in India. The land of cows in the road and yummy vindaloo, garlic naan, fish curries, etcetera.
Posted on October 25, 2019
Not only did NATHouse win six awards at the annual Day and Faculty House Awards Ceremony hosted by the Division of Student Development (DSD) recently, but their Faculty Guardian, Dr Quenton Kritzinger, was also awarded as the Faculty Guardian of the Year. He also received this award in 2017.
Posted on October 02, 2019
Professor Barend Erasmus has been appointed as the Dean in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS) at the University of Pretoria (UP) from 1 October 2019.
Posted on October 01, 2019
The 2019 ASSA South African Mathematics Team Competition (formerly known as the Southern African Inter-provincial Mathematics Olympiad) was held on Saturday 7 September 2019.
Posted on September 04, 2019
Crypto Giants runs Saturday classes for grade 8, 9 and 10 at Thulaganyo secondary school, in Winterveldt, Pretoria North.
Posted on August 31, 2019
The 2019 SATMO was written on Saturday, 24 August 2019 from 14:00 to 16:00. There were 45 candidates at UP who wrote the test.
Posted on August 27, 2019
Prof James Raftery from the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS) at the University of Pretoria (UP) recently received an A2 rating from the National Research Foundation (NRF). This brings the number of A-rated researchers in...
Posted on August 21, 2019
The annual South African Mathematical Modelling Contest (SAMMC) had 20 teams enter this year. It is a four day mathematical modelling competition whereby students work in small teams to solve one of three given mathematical modelling challenges, culminating in a short written report.
Posted on August 21, 2019
This year the department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematic's own wordsmith and math magician, Dr Harry Wiggins, delighted the audiance at the anual Mathematics Midwinter Morning.
Posted on July 30, 2019
Congratulations to Prof James Raftery on achieving an A2 rating by the NRF.
Posted on April 15, 2019
The Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics hosted the annual South African Symposium on Numerical and Applied Mathematics (SANUM) from 27 to 29 March 2019. The conference was officially opened by the Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (UP), Prof Jean Lubuma.
Posted on April 05, 2019
Two seasoned academics from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS), Prof Jan Verschoor (Biochemistry) and Prof Wentzel Schoeman (Chemistry) recently gave their own unique flavour to the term ‘soapbox’.
Posted on February 04, 2019
The second issue of the 2019 NAS T&L Bulletin was officially launched on 1 February 2019. According to Dr Rory Biggs from the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, one of the editorial members of the Bulletin, "The T&L@NAS Bulletin aims to be a forum for sharing thoughts,...
Posted on December 10, 2018
On the occasion of the annual breakfast hosted by the Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences on 29 November 2018, the winner of the award for Best First-year Lecturer, as well as the winner of the newly introduced award for Best Lecturer for Senior Courses were announced. The first of the...
Posted on November 01, 2018
The Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics is celebrating 10 years of Mathematical Biology at UP this year. In 2008, the Department drove the decision to make Mathematical Biology a strategic research focus for the Department.
Posted on September 13, 2018
2018 ASSA South African Mathematics Team Competition was held on Saturday 8 September.
Posted on September 06, 2018
The South African Tertiary Mathematics Olympiad took place on Saturday, 25 August 2018. There were 44 candidates at UP who wrote the test.
Posted on September 04, 2018
On 12-15 July 2018, six teams of students from UP competed in the South African Mathematical Modelling Contest (SAMMC). It is a four day mathematical modelling competition whereby students work in small teams to solve one of three given mathematical modelling challenges, culminating in a short...
Posted on September 04, 2018
The Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics hosted the annual Midwinter Morning. The event was a great success.
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