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UCT RESEARCH REPORT 2012
Mr Kenneth Rafel
Lecturer; mathematics education
Dr Jesse Ratzkin
Lecturer, geometric analysis
Dr Neill Robertson
Lecturer; functional analysis; locally convex spaces;
descriptive set theory; infinite-dimensional holomorphy
Dr Deon Solomons
Lecturer; thermodynamics of spacetime; Interference and
diffraction phenomena in gravitational lensing; structure
formation in the universe; theories of higher order gravity
Dr Holger Spakowski
Lecturer; theoretical computer science; computational
complexity
Dr Christine Swart
Lecturer; cryptography
Dr Vitali Vougalter
Lecturer, nonlinear analysis, partial differential equations,
mathematical biology
Senior Research Scholar
Emeritus Distinguished Professor George Ellis
Distinguished Professor of complex systems; cosmology
and general relativity theory; emergence and functioning
of complex systems, including the human brain; science
policy; mathematics and science education and religion;
social indicators
Research staff
Dr Anabela Brandão
Senior Research Officer, MARAM; Southern Ocean
toothfish assessment;SA west coast rock lobster surveys;
minke whales, SA abalone assessment.
Dr Carryn de Moor
Senior Research Officer, MARAM; S.A. sardine and anchovy
assessment and management
Dr Susan Holloway
Senior Research Officer, MARAM; S.A. west and south
coast rock lobster and horse mackerel assessment; whale
management procedures
Dr Kenneth Hughes
Honorary Research Associate; number theory; algebra;
algebraic geometry; topological quantum field theory;
p-adic analysis, nil-theta functions
Dr Éva Plagányi-Lloyd
Honorary Research Associate; multispecies modelling;
Fisheries assessment and management ecological
modeling, S.A. abalone assessment
Distinguished visitors
Emeritus Professor Bernhard Banaschewski
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada – pointfree
topology; partially ordered algebraic systems; applied
category theory
Professor Roy Maartens
, Director of Institute of
Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, UK
– Relativity, Cosmology, Gravity
Honorary staff
Emeritus Professor Ronald Becker
Differential equations (bifurcations, abstract equations);
theory of algorithms (graph partitioning, sorting networks)
and Mathematical Finance
Emeritus Professor Guillaume Brümmer
Topology and category theory group; categorical topology;
asymmetric topology and uniformity
Emeritus Distinguished Professor George Ellis
Distinguished Professor of complex systems; cosmology
and general relativity theory; emergence and functioning
of complex systems, including the human brain; science
policy; mathematics and science education; metaphysics
of cosmology and its connections to ethics and religion;
social indicators
Emeritus Professor Keith Hardie
Homotopy theory; algebraic topology; digital topology;
categorical topology
Emeritus Associate Professor Ronald Cross
Functional analysis; unbounded linear operators; linear
relations
Professor Patricia Whitelock
Visiting Professor and Principal Research Officer; SAAO
Dr David Richardson
Research Associate; Rangeland Modelling Group;
modelling grazing animal production systems; relations
between complex and simple models
Professor John Webb
Mathematical competitions and Olympiads; popularisation
of mathematics