FRIENDS OF IZIKO SOUTH AFRICAN
MUSEUM Non-Profit Organisation 052-511-NPO Postal address: P O Box 61 Cape Town 8000 South Africa Physical address: 25 Queen Victoria Street Cape Town South Africa Phone: 021 481 3913 Fax: 021 481 3993 Cell: 072 225 6893 E-mail: samfriends@iziko.org.za Website http://www.iziko.org.za/; http://www.iziko.org.za/ static/page/friends-of-the-south-african-museum
The speaker will give details about the digitisation and online access to the new Pathology Learning Centre at the University. The lecture will end with a discussion on interdisciplinary collaboration between art and pathology, historically interesting specimens and specimens that reflect important diseases in our country as well as old postmortem records. Wednesday 5 March: A guided tour of the Pathology Museum led by Dr Yeats. Cost: Members: R50; Non-members: R60
NEWSLETTER – FEBRUARY 2014
The Friends 2014 programme begins this month and members can look forward to interesting lectures as well as new outings and some old favourites. It will be lovely to see you all at our lectures and on our excursions.
WHAT’S IN STORE FOR 2014 The programme for 2014 has many excellent lectures and excursions in store thanks to the energetic and creative committee as well as welcome suggestions from members. We are grateful to members for their suggestions. The lecture programme will run as usual on the last Tuesday of each month. All lectures will be in the TH Barry Lecture Theatre at 19:00, unless otherwise advertised. Entrance is free to members on presentation of a valid 2014 membership card. Visitors are asked for a donation of R30 per lecture.
LECTURE PROGRAMME Tuesday 25 February Speaker: Dr Jane Yeats Topic: The reinvention of a pathology museum
Tuesday 25 March Speaker: Associate Professor Patrick Woudt, Department of Astronomy, UCT Topic: Explosive Transients and other Energetic Events in the Sky Ahead of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in Africa the South African MeerKAT radio telescope array will perform a number of legacy style scientific surveys on what will be the most sensitive radio telescope in the southern hemisphere. One of these legacy surveys (ThunderKAT) will use novel ways of searching for transient signals in the live data stream. Fast computing will allow us to search for signals that come and go in a matter of seconds. In this talk an overview of the kind of astrophysical processes – for example stellar explosions, the merger of compact stars or the disruption of stars in the proximity of a black hole – that give rise to these transient signals will be given and an explanation given on how new techniques in radio astronomy allow us to see the Universe in a new way.
This lecture will provide a brief overview of the history of the pathology museum at the University of Cape Town (UCT), followed by a discussion on the rise and fall of pathology museums used in medical education and the revival and survival of these museums in the twenty first century.
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