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13 May 2022 | Story Alicia Pienaar
Prof Vetrik
Prof Tomas Vetrik.

The Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Prof Danie Vermeulen, has the pleasure of inviting you to the inaugural lecture of Prof Tomas Vetrik. 

Topic: Extremal graph theory 

Event Details:
Date: 19 May 2022
Time: 17:30
Venue: Equitas Auditorium, UFS Bloemfontein Campus

RSVP:  Ms Marinda Venter on +27 51 401 2691 or email: VenterSM@ufs.ac.za  on or before Tuesday 17 May 2022.

Light refreshments will be served after the inaugural lecture. 


More about the speaker:

Tomas Vetrik received two scholarships from foreign countries during his PhD study. He spent one semester of his PhD study at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria, and two semesters at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He was the only postgraduate student from Slovakia to receive a scholarship from the Israeli government in 2006. Tomas Vetrik joined the University of the Free State in 2014, after his postdoctoral research at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and working at the UniversityPretoria. His research area is graph theory. He is mainly focusing on the degree-diameter problem, graph indices, and metric dimension of graphs. He is an NRF-rated researcher and has produced about 75 research papers (approximately 25 of them as a single author).

Three PhD students and three MSc students have completed their studies under his supervision. He has presented seminar talks at 24 universities from 15 different countries. Please take note of our COVID-19 health and safety protocols (https://www.ufs.ac.za/return-to-campus ) when visiting the UFS campuses.


Please take note of our COVID-19 health and safety protocols (https://www.ufs.ac.za/return-to-campus ) when visiting the UFS campuses. 

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Invitation to the Dialogue between Science and Society Series
2013-03-15

 

Left, Letlapa Mphahlele, former Director of Operations of the PAC with Ginn Fourie, whose daughter, Lyndi, was killed in the Heidelberg bombing in 1993.  
Photo: Supplied
15 March 2013

Invitation (pdf)

The office of Prof Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela invites you to the first event in our Dialogue between Science and Society Series for 2013.

This event is entitled Forgiveness, Living Reconciliation: The Stories and the Scholarship.

The stories of forgiveness and reconciliation feature: Olga Macingwane, Jeanette Fourie and Letlapa Mphahlele.

Respondents are Dr Juliet Rogers from the University of Melbourne in Australia and Dr Deon Snyman, Chairperson of the Worcester Hope and Reconciliation Process.

  • Date: Tuesday 19 March 2013
  • Time: 12:00 - 14:00
  • Place: CR Swart Building, Senate Hall (Bloemfontein Campus)

 

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