UCT Inaugural Lecture: Professor Elizabeth Mayne
Professor Elizabeth Mayne delivered her Inaugural Lecture, titled “Racing the Red Queen”, at 17:00 SAST on 29 May 2023.
UCT Inaugural Lecture: Professor Romy Parker
Professor Romy Parker will deliver her Inaugural Lecture, titled “Pain Management to Reduce Suffering in South Africa”, at 17:00 SAST on 8 June 2023.
UCT Inaugural Lecture: Professor Kirsty Donald
Professor Kirsty Donald presented a lecture titled “Context matters: Risk and resilience in early childhood brain development”. The lecture recording is now available.
UCT Inaugural Lecture: Professor Jeff Murugan
The first lecture in the new series was presented in-person by Professor Jeff Murugan at 18:00 on Wednesday, 19 April 2023. The lecture was titled “The Future is Quantum – a random walk in the landscape of mathematical physics”.
UCT Inaugural Lecture: Professor Mark E Engel
Professor Mark E Engel will deliver his Inaugural Lecture, titled “We are here too – Contributing African Strep A research towards eliminating Rheumatic Heart Disease,” at 17:00 SAST on 3 August 2023.
UCT Inaugural Lecture: Professor Edina Sinanovic
Professor Edina Sinanovic will deliver her Inaugural Lecture, titled “Getting the most out of life – Understanding the opportunity cost of your decisions” at 17:00 SAST on 18 September 2023.
UCT Inaugural Lecture: Professor Salome Maswime
Professor Salome Maswime will deliver her Inaugural Lecture, titled “From caesarean section-related complications to global surgical systems strengthening”, at 17:00 SAST on 12 July 2023.
Professor Igor Barashenkov
Professor Barashenkov received his MSc from the Moscow State University and a PhD in mathematical and theoretical physics from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna. His research interests include nonlinear dynamics and theory of nonlinear waves, in particular solitary waves, localised patterns and vortices. Barashenkov's early research projects focussed on the so-called dark solitons.
UCT Inaugural Lecture: Professor Lydia Cairncross
Professor Lydia Cairncross will deliver her Inaugural Lecture, titled “From Endocrine Surgery to Access to Care - the Imperative for Health Equity Action in Academic Medicine” at 18:00 SAST on 2 November 2023.
UCT Inaugural Lecture: Professor Michael Held
Professor Michael Held will deliver his Inaugural Lecture, titled “Right Down to the Bone - Orthopaedic Training and Education” at 18:30 SAST on 16 November 2023.