Workshop Programme

7 – 10 September 2026 | The Manhattan Hotel, Pretoria, South Africa

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All times are South African Standard Time (SAST, UTC+2). Select a speaker’s name for the title and abstract, or Slides to view the presentation slides. The programme is subject to change.

Schedule

Short course, keynote & plenary talks Participants' talks Industry talks Breaks, meals & social programme

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Time	Monday 07/09/2026	Tuesday 08/09/2026	Wednesday 09/09/2026	Thursday 10/09/2026
Short Course
Chair	Chinedu	Georgina	Nouralden	Chinedu
08:30 – 10:30	08:30 – 09:30 Registration 09:30 – 09:45 Opening Remarks Prof L. Nongxa 09:45 – 10:30 Keynote Talk Prof S. Moshokoa Slides for Prof. Seithuti Moshokoa (opens in a new tab)	Theme 1: Combinatorial Optimization Prof J. Grobler	Theme 2: Stochastic Control Theory Prof O. Pamen	Theme 3: PDE-Constrained Optimization Prof S. Migórski
10:30 – 11:00	Break
Participants' Talks
Chair	Abass	Maggie	Georgina	Nouralden
11:00 – 11:30	Chibueze Okeke Slides for Chibueze Okeke (opens in a new tab)	Talat Nazir Slides for Talat Nazir (opens in a new tab)	Zakaria Ali	Winfrida Mwigilwa Slides for Winfrida Mwigilwa (opens in a new tab)
11:30 – 11:55	Chidi Nwakpa Slides for Chidi Nwakpa (opens in a new tab)	Mohamed Elfadul Slides for Mohamed Elfadul (opens in a new tab)	Ciara Losel Slides for Ciara Losel (opens in a new tab)	Keneth Motjeane Slides for Keneth Motjeane (opens in a new tab)
11:55 – 12:00	Comfort Break
12:00 – 12:25	Professor Ndlovu Slides for Professor Ndlovu (opens in a new tab)	Nneka Umeorah Slides for Nneka Umeorah (opens in a new tab)	Bernard Adjei Slides for Bernard Adjei (opens in a new tab)	Francis Nwawuru Slides for Francis Nwawuru (opens in a new tab)
12:25 – 12:50	Koketso Malebana Slides for Koketso Malebana (opens in a new tab)	Anesu Pisira Slides for Anesu Pisira (opens in a new tab)	Jean Menjanahary Slides for Jean Menjanahary (opens in a new tab)	Ndapandula Hamupolo Slides for Ndapandula Hamupolo (opens in a new tab)
12:50 – 13:15	Kazeem Aremu Slides for Kazeem Aremu (opens in a new tab)	Maryam Iqbal Slides for Maryam Iqbal (opens in a new tab)	Ali Haroon Slides for Ali Haroon (opens in a new tab)	Timothy Bisakaya Slides for Timothy Bisakaya (opens in a new tab)
13:15 – 14:15	Lunch
Plenary Talks
Chair	Abass	Maggie	Georgina	Nouralden
14:15 – 15:00	Talk 1 Prof M. Banda Slides for Prof. Mapundi Banda (opens in a new tab)	Talk 3 Prof S. Migórski Slides for Prof. Stanisław Migórski (opens in a new tab)	Talk 4 Prof J. Grobler	Talk 5 Prof O. Pamen
15:00 – 15:15	Break
Industry Talks
Chair	Matthews	Matthews	Matthews	Maggie
15:15 – 16:15	Talk 2 Dr L. Jolaoso Slides for Dr Lateef Jolaoso (opens in a new tab)	Industry 1: DANCE A. Higginson & K. Brooks Slides for Antony Higginson and Kevin Brooks (opens in a new tab)	Industry 2: Isazi G. Ilung & F. Lok	Closing
16:15 – 17:00	Discussion	Discussion	Discussion
19:00 – 22:00		Cocktail & Poster Session	Workshop Dinner

Full talk titles, abstracts, poster listings and speaker biographies are available in the workshop booklet. Slides from the talks are on the presentations page.

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