Unlocking patterns of nature - the marriage of mathematics and ecology

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dc.contributor.authorHui, Cangen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-20T08:42:53Z
dc.date.available2015-10-20T08:42:53Z
dc.date.issued2015-03
dc.descriptionInaugural lecture delivered at Stellenbosch University on 19 March 2015.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractProfessor Cang Hui was born in the ancient capital of China, Xi’an, where the Terracotta Warriors were unearthed. In 1994, he went to Xi’an Jiaotong University, a C9 League, and obtained his BSc in applied mathematics four years later. He then moved to Lanzhou University and received his MSc in the same major in 2001 and a PhD in mathematical ecology in 2004. Immediately after his PhD, Hui came to South Africa and worked at Stellenbosch University until 2008 as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology. He was then appointed as a researcher by the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology (C∙I∙B) in the Department of Botany and Zoology and worked there until the end of 2013. He was promoted to full professor in 2014 in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, which coincided with his appointment by the NRF to the Tier 1 South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Mathematical and Theoretical Physical Biosciences, co-hosted by the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Cape Town. Hui is working on the interface between mathematics and biology. His interests lie in proposing models and theories for explaining emerging patterns in wholeorganism biology, namely ecology.en_ZA
dc.format.extentii, 14 pages : illustrations (some colour)en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHui, C. 2015. Unlocking patterns of nature - the marriage of mathematics and ecology. Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, South Africa.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97577
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.subjectBiodiversityen_ZA
dc.subjectEcological patternsen_ZA
dc.subjectBiogeographyen_ZA
dc.subjectSpecies distributionen_ZA
dc.subjectMathematics in natureen_ZA
dc.titleUnlocking patterns of nature - the marriage of mathematics and ecologyen_ZA
dc.typeOtheren_ZA
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