PhD and Masters Research Proposal Review

Thursday 15 Oct 2026, 11:00 → 13:00 Africa/Johannesburg

8th Floor West Lecture Room (UJ on Empire)

8th Floor West Lecture Room

UJ on Empire

Abdool Sattar Cassim (University of Johannesburg) , Samuel Temaugee (School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)

Description

PG Research Proposal Review. This is for Prof. Connell, Prof. Madyira and Dr. Truong's students.

Zoom Link

https://cern.zoom.us/j/9968944577?omn=62404156138

- 11:00 → 11:10
  
  Sensor based sorting methods for detection of light nuclides 10m
  
  Ph.D. Proposal Defense
  
  Speaker: Timothy Brooks (UJ)
  
  tim_brooks.pdf
- 11:15 → 11:25
  
  Radiation Effects and Hardening of Fiber Optic Sensors for Particle Detectors and Applications 10m
  
  Ph.D. Proposal Defense
  
  Speaker: Abdool Sattar Cassim (UJ)
  
  Defence.pptx
- 11:30 → 11:40
  
  A search for Exotic Higgs Decays to Dark Vector Bosons and Development of Fibre Optic Sensors for the Humidity Monitoring in the ATLAS ITk 10m
  
  Ph.D. Proposal Defense
  
  Speaker: Xola Mapekula (University of Johannesburg)
  
  PhD_Proposal_Defence_UJ-2.pptx
- 11:45 → 11:55
  
  Developing On-line High Performance PET Based Sorting 10m
  
  M.Eng. Proposal Defense
  
  Speaker: Prince Ncube (University Of Johannesburg)
  
  Prince_talk (1).pdf
- 12:00 → 12:10
  
  Investigation into Whether Quantum Entanglement can be Used to Search for Quantum Gravity in Particle Colliders 10m
  
  Ph.D. Proposal Defense
  
  Speaker: Jonathan Hartman (University of Johannesburg)
  
  Proposal defence.pdf
- 12:20 → 12:30
  
  Anomaly Detection on the high throughput network of the ATLAS TDAQ system 10m
  
  Ph.D Proposal Defense
  
  Speaker: Mitchell Phiri (University of Johannesburg)
  
  Talk_proposal_defence_7min.pdf