Wednesday 19 February 2014

Sci-Enza Auditorium

University of Pretoria, Main Campus

SESSION 1

Chair Prof Johann Engelbrecht

14:00 – 14:30

Opening and welcome

Quantum Chemistry

Prof Jan Boeyens, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship

14:30 – 15:15

Thackeray’s Biological Species Constant (T = -1.61)

Prof Francis Thackeray, Evolutionary Studies Institute (WITS)

15:15 – 15:30

Tea Break

SESSION 2

Chair: Prof Johann Engelbrecht

15:30 – 16:15

We frame problems in terms of solutions we know

how to deliver

Dr Vimal Ichharam, Philosopher of Science

16:15 – 17:00

Stationary electronic-waves and moving charge-carriers within a metal-crystal

Prof Johan Prins, physicist, discoverer of RT superconductivity