Welcome address by the Dean of Science, Prof Muronga and Prof Andre Venter, Head of the Department of Physics followed by overview of workshop by Profs. Bruce Mellado and Alan Cornell.
Existence of dark matter has been inferred from its large scale gravitational interactions at various astrophysical and cosmological scales. There is no evidence as yet of non-gravitational interaction of dark matter with the SM particles. The nature of dark matter particles remains unknown. Search strategies to unravel its properties will be reviewed. The search strategies involve looking for...
We have implemented spherical harmonics for intrinsically deformed nuclei collisions (U+U) at RHIC and (Xe+Xe) at LHC, in HIJING and AMPT models and calculated various physical observables. The study of intrinsic deformation in nucleus is important because it may cause asymmetry in the initial configuration of interacting particles and thus affect the final observables. It is also important to...
We highlight how Rule-based Integration (Rubi) is an enhanced method of symbolic integration which allows for the integration of many difficult integrals not accomplished by other computer algebra systems. Using Rubi, many integration techniques become tractable. Integrals are approached using step-wise simplification, hence distilling an integral (if the solution is unknown) into composite...
Infinite derivative gravity is a theory which extends on general relativity by modifying the Einstein-Hilbert action. Where the hope is that we are able to remove the pathologies found in the UV region of general relativity. In this talk I will present various linearised metrics in the theory of infinite derivative gravity and will show that we indeed are able to remove the singularities that...
