The Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA), established in 2015, is a partnership of three South African universities: the University of Cape Town, the University of Pretoria and the University of the Western Cape with the aims to build capacity and expertise in data intensive astronomy in the partner institutions and to provide systems and solutions for converting data … Read More
In the context of the 2021 Indaba X Roadshow, a panel discussion will be held at the University of Pretoria on the new and powerful collaborative aspects of modern scientific research, especially in relation to Machine Learning and Aritifcial Intelligence. IDIA Senior Researcher and Senior Lecturer in Physics Dr. Kshitij Thorat is joining the panel discussion that will take place … Read More
In an issue packed with retrospectives and news from UWC’s 60th Anniversary year in 2020, IDIA’s language project with the UWC Xhosa department to translate Astronomy resources into isiXhosa get an honourable mention. We also congratulate our Senior research Prof. Mario Santos for his NRF A-rating, a great achievement. Finally, there is also mention of our colleagues from Bioinformatics, and … Read More
For the first time in the institution’s history, the University of Pretoria (UP) held its annual Academic Achievers’ Awards virtually. By no means, however, was the significance of this prestigious event dampened by what Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Tawana Kupe deems to have been “extraordinary circumstances”. “We have been celebrating UP’s academic achievers for more than 20 years,” Prof Kupe … Read More
Astronomers from India and South Africa descended upon the Kruger National Park to kick off the superMIGHTEE Workshop from 05 – 07 June 2019. superMIGHTEE is the joint exploration of the Deep Sky with uGMRT and MeerKAT, and evolved from a series of joint workshops co-sponsored by India’s Department of Science and Technology and South Africa’s National Research Foundation bilateral, … Read More
Associate Professor Roger Deane, based at the University of Pretoria, a partner university at the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy was involved in the development of simulations from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) that lead to the visual imaging of what a black hole should look like. Assoc. Prof. Deane worked alongside post-doctoral fellow, Dr Iniyan Natarajan based at … Read More
Dr. Sarah Blyth is a senior lecturer at the UCT Department of Astronomy. She is Deputy Head of Department: Astronomy (undergraduate matters) and Co-director: National Astrophysics and Space Science Program (NASSP) She is one of the Principal Investigators of the LADUMA survey which studies gas in galaxies back to when the universe was one third of its current age. This project involves … Read More
