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Shillington, F.A. 2011. Johann Lutjeharms: Oceanographer
(1944-2011). South African Journal of Science, 107(9/10): 8-9.
Tagliabue, A. and Völker, C. 2011. Towards accounting
for dissolved iron speciation in global ocean models.
Biogeosciences, 8(10): 3025-3039.
Thomalla, S., Waldron, H.N., Lucas, M.I., Read, J.F.,
Ansorge, I.J. and Pakhomov, E.A. 2011. Phytoplankton
distribution and nitrogen dynamics in the southwest indian
subtropical gyre and Southern Ocean waters. Ocean
Science, 7(1): 113-127.
Thomalla, S., Fauchereau, N., Swart, S. and Monteiro, P.
2011. Regional scale characteristics of the seasonal cycle
of chlorophyll in the Southern Ocean. Biogeosciences, 8:
2849-2866.
Williams, R., Hedley, S.L., Branch, T.A., Bravington,
M.V., Zerbini, A.N. and Findlay, K.P. 2011. Chilean Blue
Whales as a case study to illustrate methods to estimate
abundance and evaluate conservation status of rare
species. Conservation Biology, 25(3): 526-535.
Williamson, R., Field, J.G., Shillington, F.A., Jarre, A. and
Potgieter, A.. 2011. A Bayesian approach for estimating
vertical chlorophyll profiles from satellite remote sensing:
proof-of-concept. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68(4):
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Peer-reviewed published conference proceedings
Blamey, R.C. and Reason, C.J.C. 2011. The contribution
of mesoscale convective complexes to southern African
summer rainfall. In S. Venkataraman (ed.), 27th Annual
SASAS Conference Proceeding 2011. Interdependent
Atmosphere, Land and Ocean, 22-23 September 2011,
Pretoria. Pretoria: South African Society for Atmospheric
Sciences (SASAS). ISBN 9780620508490.
Collins, C., Reason, C.J.C. and Hermes, J.C. 2011.
Comparison of different wind products over the western
Indian Ocean. In S. Venkataraman (ed.), 27th Annual
SASAS Conference Proceeding 2011. Interdependent
Atmosphere, Land and Ocean, 22-23 September 2011,
Pretoria. Pretoria: South African Society for Atmospheric
Sciences (SASAS). ISBN 9780620508490.
Hart, N., Reason, C.J.C., Fauchereau, N. and Tadross,
M.A. 2011. How does ENSO modify synoptic rainfall
during summer? In S. Venkataraman (ed.), 27th Annual
SASAS Conference Proceeding 2011. Interdependent
Atmosphere, Land and Ocean, 22-23 September 2011,
Pretoria. Pretoria: South African Society for Atmospheric
Sciences (SASAS). ISBN 9780620508490.
Kuyper, B., Palmer, C., Labuschangne, C. and Reason,
C.J.C. 2011. Modeling global methyl iodide production.
In S. Venkataraman (ed.), 27th Annual SASAS Conference
Proceeding 2011. Interdependent Atmosphere, Land and
Ocean, 22-23 September 2011, Pretoria. Pretoria: South
African Society for Atmospheric Sciences (SASAS). ISBN
9780620508490.
Department of Physics
Including the Centre for Theoretical and Mathematical
Physics, the NanoSciences Innovation Centre and the
UCT-CERN Research Centre
Head of Department: Professor D G Aschman
Departmental Profile
The Department of Physics is accommodated in the R
W James Building, which houses research laboratories
equipped for nuclear physics, X-ray stress determination,
computational physics and nanoelectronics production.
Additional facilities available to the Department are
provided within the building by the Electron Microscope
Unit (Scanning Electron Microscope and Transmission
Electron Microscope), and at iThemba LABS (200 MeV
cyclotron, a 5 MeV Van de Graaff accelerator used for
ion beam analysis, including a nuclear microprobe, high
resolution X-ray diffraction, and PET scanners adapted for
positron emission particle tracking).
Major areas of interest include:
Experimental nuclear physics at iThemba LABS (D
G Aschman, A Buffler, R W Fearick, M R Nchodu):
(a) Gamma ray spectroscopy with the AFRODITE
array; (b) Giant resonance reactions with the magnetic
spectrometer; (c) Fast neutron physics
Theoretical Physics (J W A Cleymans, C A Dominguez,
W A Horowitz, A Peshier, S M Perez, H W G Weigert, S M
Wheaton and R D Viollier): (a) Research within the Centre
for Theoretical and Mathematical Physics; (b) Structure of
elementary particles; (c) Weak interactions; (d) Quantum
Electrodynamics and Chromodynamics in vacuum at
extreme temperatures and densities; (e) Renormalization
group equations (Color Glass Condensate); (f) Nonlinear
effects in QCD at high densities; (g) Phenomenology of
heavy ion reactions; (h) Quark gluon plasma; (i) Nuclear
structure and models
Experimental high energy physics (J W A Cleymans, R W
Fearick, A Hamilton): (a) Research within the UCT-CERN
Research Centre; (b) Relativistic heavy ion collisions
within the ALICE collaboration at CERN; (c) High energy
proton-proton collisions within the ATLAS collaboration
at CERN
Nanophysics and solid state physics (M D Blumenthal,
D T Britton, C M Comrie and M Härting): (a) Research
within the Nanosciences Innovation Centre; (b) Structural
and electrical properties of thin films; (c) X-ray diffraction