Bio: Prof Inger Fabris-Rotelli is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Pretoria. She has been at the Department of Statistics since 2004 and holds a PhD Mathematical Sciences (2013).

Her research interests are in spatial statistics and GIS, as well as remote sensing and general image processing. Her research focuses on applied areas, developing mathematical and statistical methodology for image processing, remote sensing and spatial statistics with impact in areas of criminology, epidemiology (COVID-19) and biostatistics, and informal road modelling.

Bio: Abdul H Kara completed all his studies at Wits University and in all, but one year, has been at Wits from Junior Lecturer through to Professor; the one year being served as a school teacher. His PhD thesis involved a range of topics around the Symmetries of Differential Equations, Euler-Lagrange equations and their relationship with Conservation Laws. Abdul has published with collaborators from China, the US, Russia, Pakistan and with his students from SA and abroad. He continues to apply his work in mathematical physics, engineering and relativity and extend his ideas to Discrete Equations and Fractional Differential Equations.

Bio: Jan Nordström is Professor Emeritus in Computational Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, Linköping University, Sweden, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and an Honorary Professor in Computational Mathematics at University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is also a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. His main interest is in Initial Boundary Value Problems (IBVPs), and in particular the fundamental effect of boundary and interface conditions on well-posedness and stability. He stresses the necessity to understand the IBVP during the development of numerical approximations.