The University of the Witwatersrand are looking to fill three vacancies in the School of Mathematics at Associate Lecturer, Lecturer, or Senior Lecturer level. The closing date for applications is 26 June 2025. For more details, kindly see the official advertisement: Associate Lecturer – SL June 2025 – advert
Author: Francois Schulz
Dear SAMS member,
The 68th Annual SAMS Congress of the South African Mathematical Society (SAMS) will be hosted by Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha on 2 – 5 December 2025. The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the SAMS congress would like to send a request out to SAMS members who are interested in organizing a special session as part of the congress. All interested persons should please inform Prof M Weigt via email, Martin.Weigt@mandela.ac.za, by no later than Tuesday 17 June of his / her interest to host a special session and a title of the session. A short email is all that is required.
The following is an alphabetically ordered list of special sessions that were organized at last year’s SAMS conference. We invite the organizers of these sessions to inform the LOC whether they are willing to continue hosting their respective sessions.
In addition, proposals for new special sessions are warmly welcomed and encouraged.
- Categories, Algebra, Topology and Logic
- Discrete Mathematics
- Functional Analysis and Operator Theory
- Lie symmetries and other approaches in solving nonlinear differential equations
- Mathematical Modelling of Ecological and Epidemiological Systems
- Mathematics of Gravity
- Tertiary Mathematics Education Research
Thank you very much for your assistance.
Kind regards,
Prof Martin Weigt
Dear colleagues
I am pleased to invite you to contribute to a Special Session on “Evolution Equations and Operator Semigroups: Theory and Applications” at the forthcoming AIMS Conference in Athens, Greece, to be held 6–10 July 2026 (https://aimsconference.org/conferences/2026/index.html) This session will bring together researchers working on the modeling of dynamic systems—ranging from well-posedness and asymptotic analysis to nonlinear and stochastic perturbations—and their myriad applications in control theory, fluid dynamics, population biology, and beyond.
Our goal is to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue that bridges abstract operator theory with practical challenges. We particularly welcome talks that highlight novel methodologies—such as integro-differential approaches, fractional calculus, and non-autonomous frameworks—as well as contributions that showcase data-driven or infinite-dimensional perspectives. Early-career researchers and women in mathematics are especially encouraged to participate, enriching our community’s future.
The special session format allocates 30-minute slots for each presentation (including discussion), in line with the conference’s overall structure for special sessions. While the official abstract-submission deadlines are yet to be announced on the AIMS site, I would be grateful to receive your expressions of interest by e-mail. Please send related questions and abstract suggestions directly to my email at BuddeCJ@ufs.ac.za. For full session details and to prepare your submission, please visit the session webpage:
http://aimsconference.org/AIMS-Conference/conf-reg2026/ss/changeApp12.php?ssid=111AIMS Conference
I very much look forward to assembling an engaging program and hope to see many of you in Athens for what promises to be a vibrant week of mathematical exchange. I need to emphasize that I will not be able to cover any registration fees, travel or accommodation costs involved.
Best wishes
Christian Budde
The School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science seeks to appoint a postdoctoral fellow in Mathematics to join the UKZN Topology research group. The closing date for applications is 9 June 2025. For more details, kindly see the advertisement: Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025
On 12 May the SAMS Women in Mathematics (WiM) Division of the South African Mathematical Society held a May 12 event as part of the 180 worldwide events to celebrate women in mathematics. The events serve as a commemoration of the life and work of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to be awarded a Fields Medal in 2014. The event was hosted by the Stellenbosch University Mathematics Division and included students from UCT, SU, AIMS and UWC. Jillian Reilly spoke about giving ourselves permission to stand out and employ our skills and agency in the environments we are in. The event was live-streamed from the Neelsie Cinema to satellite events at WITS (including UP and UJ), University of KwaZulu Natal, Rhodes University and Sol Plaatje University.
Thanks to Prof Sibusiso Moyo and Prof Ingrid Rewitzky (Stellenbosch University) for their support of the event and their role in mentoring the next generation of women in mathematics.
We are grateful for funding and support from the DSTI-NRF CoE-MaSS, the Stellenbosch University Mathematics Division and the National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences that made the event possible.
We are pleased to announce the 22nd Conference on Mathematics, Science and Technology Education in Africa (COMSTEDA 22), which will be held from November 12-14, 2025, at the Bingu International Conference Centre in Lilongwe, Malawi. This year’s conference will be conducted in both physical and virtual formats under the theme “Reimagining STEM for a Pan-African Future: Bridging Education, Innovation, and Sustainable Development Towards Agenda 2063.”
Please find attached the detailed call for papers with submission guidelines, important dates, registration information, and conference sub-themes:
Announcement and Call for Papers_COMSTEDA 22
We look forward to your valuable contributions and participation in this important forum on advancing STEM education across Africa.
Please share with your networks.
COMSTEDA 22 TEAM
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SAMS Bronze Medal: Call for nominations
Please take note of the call for Universities to nominate their best honours student(s) who enrolled for a degree in Mathematics and/or Applied Mathematics in 2024 for the SAMS Bronze medal. The contact person in this regard is the General Secretary of SAMS, Dr. Christian Budde: buddecj@ufs.ac.za or secretary@sams.ac.za.
For more details regarding the procedure and participation, please consult the SAMS website (accessible from this link).
The School of Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand invites applications for the permanent position of nGAP Associate Lecturer. The closing date is 18 May 2025. For more details, kindly see the official advertisement:
School of Maths -nGAP Lecturer Maths Advert 2025 Final 2025
This communication serves as the second announcement for the conference on “Evolution Equations, Operator Semigroups and Beyond” that will be held October 13-17, 2025, at the Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
This conference aims to bring together leading experts in the fields of operator semigroups and evolution equations. With speakers who possess extensive expertise in these areas, we seek to foster a productive dialogue and exchange of ideas. This gathering aspires to lay a robust foundation for future dynamic exploration into the theory and applications of operator semigroups and evolution equations.
A list of possible topics for contributed talks includes, but is not limited to: Applications to Biology, Asymptotic Behavior of Operator Semigroups, Control Theory, Delay Equations, Ergodic Theory, Evolution Equations on Graphs, Nonlinear Evolution Equations, Numerical Methods of Operator Semigroups, Perturbation Theory, Port-Hamiltonian Systems, Positivity, Spectral Theory, etc.
This conference offers a unique opportunity to discuss the latest research in the area of evolution equations and operator semigroups and to engage with both local and international experts in the field. Additionally, you will have the chance to enjoy stunning coastal views and vibrant local culture. The following invited speakers are confirmed for this conference:
- Jacek Banasiak (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
- Balint Farkas (University of Wuppertal, Germany)
- Marjeta Kramar Fijavž (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- Christian Seifert (Technical University Hamburg, Germany)
- Sanne ter Horst (North-West University, South Africa)
- Bruce Watson (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
To register and learn more, please visit our conference website:
https://sites.google.com/view/eeosb2025/home
Please note that registration has changed since the first announcement and is now handled by the Central Events and Conferencing Office (CECO) of Stellenbosch University. The new official registration link is:
https://evolve.eventoptions.co.za/register/eeosb
We kindly ask all participants, including those who previously registered, to register again using the new platform. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
During the registration process, you will be asked if a visa letter is required or if you want to give a talk during the conference. If a visa letter is needed, it will be provided by e-mail immediately upon finalization of the registration. You can upload an abstract during registration, but there will be a separate communication to those who want to give a talk in due course.
Due to funding, there will be no registration fee for the conference. We will provide conference material, two times tea/coffee/refreshments and snacks per conference day, one day city sightseeing tour including a boat tour as well as a conference dinner. We kindly ask you to take care of your own accommodation and transport. The conference venue will be the Theology Building of the Stellenbosch University. We recommend to secure accommodation in time as Stellenbosch can be crowded during this time of year.
Please forward this communication to everybody that might also be interested in attending this conference.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are already looking forward welcoming you in South Africa.
The organizing committee:
Christian Budde (BuddeCJ@ufs.ac.za)
Retha Heyman (rheymann@sun.ac.za)
Conference Poster:
Conference_Poster_Final
Joint LMS-SAMS-SAMSA meeting will be hosted in South Africa in the first week of September. The meeting will have a scientific component, but its main goal is to identify and establish/strengthen mathematical partnership(s) between UK and Southern Africa. SAMS members are requested please to write an email to SAMS President (president@sams.ac.za) if they have suggestions who could be included/invited from Southern Africa or the UK to participate in the meeting (self-nominations are welcome). SAMS is looking for mathematicians (at any stage of their career) who are most likely to engage in long-lasting collaboration across UK and Southern Africa in mathematics and its applications (existing collaborations included if there is a prospect for strengthening them). Resources are limited and we cannot guarantee that we will be able to approach/invite all individuals identified. Preference will be given to those who work in areas that are well established and well represented in Southern Africa or the UK and those who lead a group in a particular area. Please provide context with the nominations (if there are existing collaborations, with whom, and what are the indications that the person is interested in such collaborations). Nominations should please reach the SAMS President by 10 May, but later nominations may also be considered.