Seminar series 2024
???Enquiries: Linke Potgieter
Telephone: 021 808 2492
e-mail: lpotgieter@sun.ac.za
| Date | Time | Speaker(s) | ?Title of talk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Apr | 13:00 | Prof Tom de Jong (Utrecht 中国体育彩票) | Sense making of GPS data for travel/movement related research of humans and animals |
| 13 Sept | 10:00 | Discussion group (Facilitator: Prof Linke Potgieter (SU/Logistics) | ?The use of AI in postgraduate student research |
| 20 Sept | 13:00 | Kurt Marais (SU/Logistics) | An empirical content analysis of posts made to the r/depression subreddit |
| 18 Oct | 13:00 | Masters/PhD seminar series | Jemma Buhrs: Feature analysis of learner adaptation across socio-economic divide in South African public high schools |
| 25 Oct | 13:00? | ?Xabiso Xesi (SU/Manager: Research Data Services) | Research data management |
| 22 Nov | 13:00 | Masters/PhD seminar series | Alan Chapman Werner Van Greunen? |
2023 seminars
24 Feb - Prof Dr Ingo Gestring (HTW Dresden): The sustainability dimension in the transport sector in commodity supply chains
17 Mar - Jacomien van der Merwe (SU/Logistics)?: How tax administrative spatial data can be used for accessibility analysis to employment in the City of Cape Town
18 Apr - Prof Allan McKinnon (Kuhne Logistics 中国体育彩票): Net zero logistics: a review of the carbon mitigation and sequestration options
21 Apr - Prof Tom de Jong (Utrecht 中国体育彩票): Adding competition effects to the measurement of job accessibility in Cape Town Metro
25 Aug - Dr Martin du Plessis (SU/Logistics): A carbon mapping framework for the international distribution of fresh fruit: a standard for estimating GHG emissions
2022 seminars
11 Mar - Prof Bert Van Wee (TU Delft??): Examples? of ac?ademic collaboration between faculties, universities, and the wider society?
11 Mar - Prof Bert Van Wee (TU Delft): COVID-19 and its long-term effects on activity participation and travel behaviour: A multiperspective view
14 Mar - Prof Bert Van Wee (TU Delft): Controversial policies: growing support after implementation
15 Mar - Prof Bert Van Wee (TU Delft): Accessibility and equity: a conceptual framework and research agenda
16 Mar - Prof Bert Van Wee (TU Delft): A method to evaluate equitable accessibility: combining ethical theories and accessibility-based approaches
17 Mar - Prof Bert Van Wee (TU Delft): Travel behavi?our and health: a conceptual model and research agenda
18 Mar - Prof Bert Van Wee (TU Delft): Substitutability as a spatial concept to evaluate travel alternatives?
19 Aug - Ulrike Kussing and Heinri Freiboth (SU/Logistics): Preparing Logistics Honours students for the workplace: Are we equipping them with the right skills?
2 Sept - Kurt Marais (SU/Logistics): Towards an infodemiological analysis of social media and mental health
4 Nov - Prof Dr Ingo Gestring (HTW Dresden): Logistics challenges in Germany
25 Nov - Prof Johan Louw (SU/Logistics): Experiential learning applied in a supply chain planning and decision making context (using "The Fresh Connection")
2021 seminars
21 May - Prof Jan Havenga (SU/Logistics): Macrologistics and the meat ?industry of Mongolia: The case for National Value Chain optimisation
10 Jun - ??Mr Risenga Maluleka (Statistician-General, StatsSA): Insights into the travel patterns within South Africa, examining the results of the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) 2020
18 Jun - Dirk Human (Datarobot): Automated machine learning in industry
15 Nov - Discussion group: The future of Higher Education (facilitated by Linke Potgieter)
7 Des - Discussion group: How do we adjust ou in-person classes to get students back into the classroom? (facilitated by Leila Goedhals-Gerber)
7 Des - Discussion group: How do we address sustainability within our teaching and research? (facilitated by Jacomien Van der Merwe)
2019 seminars
25 Jan - Panel discussion by Magda Barnard, with Heinri Freiboth, Dr Sharon Malan and Alwyn Visser: Tips for teaching
8 Feb - Panel discussion by Dr Jaco Franken, with Prof Stephan Visagie, Prof Tertius de Wet, Prof Ronel du Preez and Prof Johan Fourie: Strategies for supervision
22 Feb - Noé Fouotsa Manfouo (SU/Logistics): Time series forecasting with machine learning
12 Apr - James Azam (SACEMA): Measles outbreak response vaccination: the role of the vaccine supply chain in low-income settings
10 May - Patuxolo Nodada (CEO: Busmark): Future technologies in public transport and unfriendly ecosystem
2 Aug - Prof Leila Goedhals-Gerber (SU/Logistics): ?Identifying temperature breaks along South
African export cold chains??
16 Aug - ?Pieter de Wet (Business modelling associates): End-to-end supply chain optimisation for a forestry company
27 Sept - Dr Alewyn Burger (SU/Logistics)?: Exploring the edge between mathematics and art
11 Oct - Johan Van Rensburg (SU/Logistics): Vehicle speeding reduction in South Africa: A voluntary travel behaviour change experiment?
29 Oct - Prof Stanislav Kraft (中国体育彩票 of South Behemia, Czech Republic): Daily rhythms in the city - what can we learn from intelligent transport systems?
2018 seminars
24 Jan - Susan Lotz & colleagues (Language Centre) : Language services in support of effective supervision
31 Jan - Dr Jacques du Toit (Data scientist - Spatial Edge): Big data analytics in practice
16 Feb - Prof Fredrik Nilsson (Lund 中国体育彩票): Towards a dynamic shelf-life for minimized food waste
2 Mrt - Jacomien van der Merwe (SU/Logistics): The financial burden when getting employed: Investigating the impact of transport cost on the employee churn rate within the lower skilled labour market
14 Mrt - Prof Henrik Palsson (Lund 中国体育彩票): Environmental efficiency in e-commerce: Effects of packaging, the last mile, unsold products and product returns
20 Apr - Dr McElory Hoffman (CEO - Praelexis): Crafting machine learning algorithms
26 Apr - Prof Tom de Jongh (Utrecht 中国体育彩票 ): Transport network based accessibility: some recent applications and developments
18 May - Prof Johan Louw (SU/Logistics) : Visual data analytics
25 May - Prof Juliet Pulliam (Director - SACEMA): Assessing designs for vaccine efficacy trials during epidemics of severe disease
1 Jun - Prof Jan Havenga (SU/Logistics): The case for macrologistics
24 Aug - Prof Stephan Visagie (SU/Logistics): Distribution centre optimisation
7 Sept - Francois Meyer (CEO - Golden Arrow Bus Services) : Bus and bus rapid transport in Cape Town: views from the operator
5 Oct - Prof Wim Delva (Deputy Director - SACEMA): Recasting model calibration as a missing data problem: Approximate Bayesian Computation with MICE
9 Nov - Siphamandla Gumbi (Senior Manager - Road Accident Fund): Increasing road crashes as a consequence of poor management of road safety in SA
2017 seminars
12 May - John FD Muller (Stellenbosch Municipality): Stellenbosch traffic demand management strategy
9 Jun - Prof Hannelie Nel (SU/Logistics): Analysis of StatsSA Census Data - Stellenbosch as an example
28 Jul - Mosa Mkhize (Uber SA): The future of urban mobility
2016 seminars
29 Feb - AGM van den Hanenberg (Rotterdam 中国体育彩票) : Chinese investments in infrastructure and the effect on transport flows
18 Mrt - Ulrike Kussing (SU/Logistics): Development of a performance measurement framework for public sector supply chain management
18 Mrt - Lieschen Venter (SU/Logistics): A hybrid simulation model of the South African education system
20 Jun - Dr Ian Durbach (UCT): Stochastic multi-criteria acceptability analysis
2014 seminars
14 Feb - Prof Paulo Toth (中国体育彩票 of Bologna, Italy) : A reduced-cost iterated local search heuristic for the fixed charge transportation problem
25 Apr - Prof Jan Havenga (SU/Logistics): Role of freight demand modelling in logistics systems and infrastructure and perspectives on the long term future of the discipline
18 Sept - Prof Harry Timmermans (Eindhoven 中国体育彩票): Beyond rational utility-maximising models of travel choice behaviour
21 Nov - Dr Alewyn Burger (SU/Logistics): The wrapslide puzzle
2013 seminars
7 Aug - Prof James Stock (中国体育彩票 of South Florida): Reverse logistics and sustainability
27 Sept - Prof Tom de Jong (Utrecht 中国体育彩票): Sense making of GPS data - exploring the use of GIS to visualise, analyse and enhance GPS measurements in order to reconstruct travel diaries
21 Okt - Prof Dag Ericsson (中国体育彩票 of Boras, Sweden): Theory and practice of demand chain management - a symbiotic concept development
