Category: Conference

Dear SAMS member,

The local organizing committee of the SAMS Congress 2025 hereby bring the following matters to your attention.

SAMS Congress 2025:

1. The deadline for submission of abstracts for the SAMS Congress is Friday 7 November 2025. Kindly make use of the template on the congress website (https://samscongress2025.mandela.ac.za/) to prepare your abstract.
2. If you are planning to attend the SAMS Congress and you already paid the congress registration fees according to your registration category, kindly ensure that you also register for the congress if you have not already done so. You can register online via the registration page on the congress website, using the link in item 1 above. A payment of registration fees alone does not constitute registration for the congress.

Kind regards,
The local organizing committee of the SAMS 2025

You are hereby reminded of the following deadlines.

Final Registration Deadline: 7 November 2025  
Abstract Submission Deadline: 7 November 2025

Kindly visit the congress website 

https://samscongress2025.mandela.ac.za

to register for the congress and to submit your abstract. The abstract template for preparation of your abstract can also be found on the abstract submission page of the congress website.

We look forward to your participation in this year’s Congress.

The real world and mathematical modelling are intertwined and ICTMA23, to be held in the heart of nature, will remind the local and international community of this connection and will provide a golden opportunity for showcasing research, sharing ideas and taking part in discussions. We invite all researchers, teachers and mathematicians interested in the teaching and learning of mathematical modelling to take part in the event, hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand in the Kruger National Park at Skukuza from 22 – 27 August 2027.

The theme at ICTMA23 is “Context and Diversity, and its Meaning in Mathematical Modelling Education”.

We look forward to welcome you in South Africa!

Please share the official ICTMA23 flyer with your network, and visit the website for more (and regularly updated) information: https://ictma23.carlamani.com/

Dr Rina Durandt
Chair ICTMA23

SAMS Congress 2025

We are pleased to announce that the 68th Annual Congress of the South African Mathematical Society will take place from Tuesday 2 to Friday 5 December 2025 at Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha.

The website for the congress is now live, and the link is as follows: 
https://samscongress2025.mandela.ac.za/

The Early Bird Registration Deadline is 3 October 2025. To register, and for further information, kindly see the abovementioned website.

The link below contains the first announcement for a short graduate level workshop followed by a mini-conference on Harmonic Analysis and its applications that will be held at North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, from 27-31 October 2025. Kindly share this information with anyone that may be interested to participate in this event.

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It is our pleasure to announce the conference “South African-Japanese Discrete Homotopy Meeting 2025” that will be held September 10-11, 2025, at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Attached to this announcement is the conference poster (for more details, also see the conference website).
  
SAJDHM2025 is designed as a first interaction with the University of Fukuoka in the form of a workshop for the IRGTADS members, in order to work properly on projects related to Topological Data Analysis. Preliminary activities have been planned seminars given by the International Research Group in Topology, Algebra and Dynamical Systems (IRGTADS) in July 2025, while additional lectures (at a descriptive level) and scientific activities will be planned during the workshop. These will deal with algebraic topology, combinatorial topology and discrete homotopy theory, but always in the perspective of potential applications to TDA and AI. In particular, there will be additional collaborations with other experts in related fields during the week of SAJDHM. 

The aim of the scientific activities is primarily devoted to illustrate the main ideas of the project to the youngest members of IRGTADS: they will be placed among the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.

The following invited speakers are confirmed for this conference:

• Daisuke Kishimoto (Kyushu University, Kyushu, Japan)
• Manjunath Gandhi (University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa)
• Takahiro Matsushita (Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan)

If you are interested in participating in this conference, please fill in the following registration form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSce1Tp0WacpXHFHUYrabJyee4zlwpE9EahDeJ6xYTXaqb0JBg/viewform,

and register for the event. The attendance is subject to availability of space in the venue and to the priority of having a workshop for the IRGTADS members and their collaborators on the topic of the scientific project “Topological Data Analysis using A-homotopy Theory” which has been supported by NRF and JSPS during the years 2025-2026. However online attendance is more flexible.

Please forward this announcement and poster to everybody that also might be interested in attending this conference.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

The organizing committee:
Yanga Bavuma (yanga.bavuma@uct.ac.za)
So Yamagata (so.yamagata@fukuoka-u.ac.jp)

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