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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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Four educators from South Africa recently visited the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) in the United States of America (USA) on an exchange programme to study economic education delivery systems. The NCEE is a non-profit educational organisation in the USA with a nationwide network of university based centres for economic education. The South African delegation met with among others the department of education in Minnesota, staff from the national department of education in Washington DC and representatives of the South African Embassy.

From the left are: Dr Patty Elder (Vice-President: International Economics of the NCEE), Ms Faith Ndaba (Chief Director: Curriculum Management, Department of Education, Free State), Dr Thula Mbatha (Chief Director: Curriculum, Department of Education, KwaZulu-Natal), Representative Betty McCollum (Education and Related : Washington DC), Prof. Klopper Oosthuizen (Department of Agricultural Economics, UFS), Dr Nhlanhla Ngcobo (Director: Teacher Development, Department of Education, KwaZulu-Natal), and Prof. Claudia Parliament (Executive Director: Minnesota Council on Economic Education).
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