Lectures start at 13:00 and are held in room 3022 of the Van der Sterr Building, c/o Victoria and Bosman streets, Stellenbosch.
Enquiries: Linke Potgieter
Telephone: 021 808 2492
e-mail: lpotgieter@sun.ac.za
| 25Jan | 12:00 - 14:00 | Panel discussion | Tips for Teaching | All |
| 8 Feb | 12:00 - 14:00 | Panel discussion | Strategies for Supervision | All |
22 Feb
| 13:00 - 14:00
| Noé Fouotsa Manfouo (SU/Logistics)
| Time series forecasting with machine learning
| Operations research
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| 12 Apr | 13:00 - 14:00 | James Azam (SACEMA)
| Measles outbreak response vaccination: the role of the vaccine supply chain in low-income settings | Operations research and logistics management |
| 10 May | 12:30 - 14:00 | Patuxolo Nodada (CEO: Busmark)
| Future technologies in public transport and unfriendly ecosystem
| Transport economics |
| 2 Aug | 13:00 - 14:00 | Prof Leila Goedhals-Gerber (SU/Logistics) | Identifying temperature breaks along South
African export cold chains
| Logistics management
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| 16 Aug | 13:00 - 14:00 | Pieter de Wet (Business modelling associates)
| End-to-end supply chain optimisation for a forestry company
| Operations research |
| 30 Aug | 13:00 - 14:00 | Johan Van Rensburg (SU/Logistics) | Distance-based road user charges as a road cost
recovery method: A South African case study | Transport economics |
| 27 Sept | 13:00 - 14:00 | Dr Alewyn Burger (SU/Logistics)
| Exploring the edge between mathematics and art
| Operations research |
| 25 Oct | 13:00 - 14:00 | To be confirmed
| To be confirmed
| Logistics management
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| 22 Nov | 13:00 - 14:00 | Prof Stephan Krygsman (SU/Logistics) | Using dynamic transport data to optimise transport networks
| Transport economics |
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 University): 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 University): 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 University ): 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 University) : 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 (University 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 University): 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 (University of South Florida): Reverse logistics and sustainability
27 Sept - Prof Tom de Jong (Utrecht University): 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 (University of Boras, Sweden): Theory and practice of demand chain management - a symbiotic concept development
