
Upcoming Events
20 April, 2026
Acoustically-mediated optical tomography: How acoustic forces enable optical imaging.
University of the Witwatersrand, GP
IYQ 2025 events summary


WitsQ Internship 2026

Science Spaza Quantum Edition

SAIP Prize winners 2025

SAIP Prize winners 2025

Cape Town Science Centre Open Day

SPU Quantum Day

Unizulu outreach event

Eskom District Expo

UCT Outreach school event

QST across Africa workshop

Science and Jazz seminar series

High school outreach

IYQ 2025 Closing ceremony

IYQ 2025 Opening ceremony
Past Events
31 March, 2026
WitsQ-IBM seminar: Looking ahead: Timelines for quantum to be a mainstream technology for business.
Hybrid, University of the Witwatersrand, GP

30 November – 14 December, 2025
Quantum Art exhbition
The Chairman, KZN
28 November, 2025
UKZN Centre for Quantum Computing and Technology Launch
University of KwaZulu-Natal, KZN

5 November, 2025
Viewing the nano world
University of Zululand, KZN
17 October, 2025
Seminar: Evidence of Dual Shapiro Steps in a Josephson Junction Array
Dr Nicolas Roch
144 October, 2025
The scientists (and science) behind South Africa’s first quantum satellite link with China
Woordfees, Stellenbosch

13 October, 2025
Quantum Day at SPU
Sol Plaatje University, NC
23 September, 2025
Wits-IBM seminar: Why machine learning may be a great application for quantum computers after all
Dr Maria Schuld
1 September, 2025
SAYAS Panel Discussion: ‘Navigating the Quantum World: Understanding the Next Computing Era’
Virtual
27 August, 2025
A framework for secure financial transactions with relativistic quantum tokens
Isa Tippens
8 August, 2025
NITheCS seminar: Divide-and-Conquer simulation of Open Quantum Systems
Prof. Nadja Kolb Bernardes

7 August, 2025
Talk for Women in Science Day: Quantum tech unlocked
Empangeni High School, KZN

6 August, 2025
Quantum Tech unlocked: From qubits to communication
Unizulu Science Centre, KZN

5 August, 2025
Science Cafe: Quantum Communication via satellite
Fomo Cafe, KZN
1 August, 2025
NITheCS seminar: Encoding topological qubits using higher lattice gauge theory model
Dr Latévi M. Lawson
30 July, 2025
Wits-IBM seminar: Quantum technologies for next-generation diagnostic devices
Dr Kelvin Mpofu
7-11 July, 2025
69th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP)
University of the Witwatersrand, GP
27 June, 2025
NITheCS seminar: Remarks on the use and properties of matrix continued fractions in quantum physics
Prof. Miloslav Znojil
25 June, 2025
Science with Jazz: Sensing the invisible with quantum ghost imaging
Prof. Andrew Forbes
23 May, 2025
NITheCS seminar: Domain-driven applications of Quantum Machine Learning
Dr Nouhaila Innan
21 May, 2025
Quantum Computer Emulator on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) processor
Bonga Njamela
14 April, 2025
NITheCS colloquium – A quantum celebration on World Quantum Day
Stellenbosch University, WC
7-14 April, 2025
33rd Chris Engelbrecht Summer School on the Theoretical Foundations of Quantum Science and Quantum Technologies
Stellenbosch, WC
28 March, 2025
NITheCS seminar: Modeling and simulation of open quantum systems: purified pseudomode approach and its extensions
Dr Pengfei Liang
14 March, 2025
NITheCS colloquium – Quantum picturalism (and some interpretable Al, and some music)
Prof. Bob Coecke
12, 19, 26 March, 2025
NITheCS mini-school – Quantum diagrams: An introduction to the graphical language of ZX calculus
Dr Kishan Dayaram
12 March, 2025
WIts-IBM seminar: The potential and limitations of quantum machine learning
Dr Ryan Sweke

26 February – 1 March, 2025
SA QuTI Grantee Workshop 2025
Stellenbosch, WC
31 January, 2025
NITheCS seminar: Nonequilibrium quantum heat transport between structured environments
Dr Graeme Pleasance
24 January, 2025
NITheCS seminar: Should we use parameterised quantum circuits for machine learning
Dr Ryan Sweke
5 December, 2024
NITheCS seminar: Learning quantum states and unitaries of bounded gate complexity
Asst. Prof. Matthias Caro
25 September, 2024
Exploring classical and quantum solutions to real-world optimisation problems
Prof. Gift Khangamwa
24 – 28 June, 2024
7th International Conference on Optical Angular Momentum (ICOAM 2024)
Kruger National Park, MP

3-5 June, 2024
Quantum Computing Workshop
Dr Isaac Nape

3 April, 2024
Introduction to Quantum Technology for Non-Experts
Prof. Andrew Forbes

5-8 February, 2024
SA QuTI Grantee Workshop 2024
Dullstroom, MP
24-28 October, 2023
Spring School on Theoretical and Computational Foundations of Quantum Technologies
Drakensberg, KZN
3 July, 2023
The 67th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP) Winter School
University of Zululand, KZN






































































