PhD and Masters Research Proposal Review

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

8th Floor West Lecture Room (UJ on Empire)

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

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

1. Research proposal defense for- Student name.docx

RUBRIC FOR POSTGRADUATE PROPOSALS DEFENCE 2021 (4).pdf

11:00 → 11:10 Sensor based sorting methods for detection of light nuclides

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

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

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

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

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

Ph.D Proposal Defense

Speaker: Mitchell Phiri (University of Johannesburg)

Talk_proposal_defence_7min.pdf