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Professor Joel Moitsheki delivers his inaugural lecture, titled: Applied Differential Equations: Symmetry Solutions.
Applied mathematician and one of the most productive researchers in the Faculty of Science, Professor Joel Moitsheki from the School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, delivered his inaugural lecture recently after being promoted to full professor in December 2013.
His lecture, titled: Applied Differential Equations: Symmetry Solutions, focussed on the solutions of differential equations arising in water and solute transport theory, and heat transfer in extended surfaces.
Moitsheki is the author of some 40 papers in peer-reviewed literature and he has successfully supervised a number of MSc and PhD students.
According to the Dean of Science, Professor Helder Marques, since Moitsheki joined Wits in 2008 he has rose through the ranks and is now also the Assistant Dean for Knowledge, Information and Infrastructure Management in the Faculty.
“Inaugural lectures are an extremely important event in an academic’s life. It signals the achievement by a member of our academic staff to reach the rank of full professor and to become member therefore of our highest academic body: the Senate,” Marques said.
Moitsheki is an NRF-rated scientist and his research interests include symmetry analysis of differential equations arising in industry, engineering and environmental problems such as water and solute transport in soils, thermal diffusion and so on. Chemical contamination and salinisation of soil (or soil salinity) are a serious environmental problem today.
Listen to his full lecture: