The AIMS Women in STEM (AIMSWIS) Initiative held its annual Mentoring and Networking Event on 30 November 2019, at AIMS South Africa, under the theme “breaking the glass ceiling”. This year’s theme served as a call to direct attention to and celebrate women who have broken through the metaphorical glass ceiling that seems to permeate
AIMS South Africa celebrated the success of its eighth group of January intake students at a special Recognition of Achievement Ceremony held at its centre in Muizenberg on 14 November 2019. Sixteen students (including 10 South Africans) received their AIMS Master’s Recognition of Achievement Certificates and will graduate next year through the partner universities that
The German research chair with specialization in Partial Differential Equations and Calculus of Variations at AIMS South Africa, in collaboration with the Communication and Information Theory Chair at TU Berlin, is offering two Postdoctoral fellowships at AIMS South Africa research center in Cape Town. These fellowships are made available and funded by the DAAD to
On 25 and 31 October, the AIMS Women in STEM (AIMSWIS) initiative had the pleasure of hosting two phenomenal women in mathematics Dr Magdaleen Marais and Prof. Lijun Zhang. Dr Marais is an extraordinary lecturer at the University of Pretoria, a research fellow at AIMS South Africa, and a member of the transregional collaborative research
The 6th Muizenberg Festival took place from 7 to 13 October 2019. AIMS South Africa together with the Muizenberg Festival brought together experts from both basic and applied research in a riveting public lecture themed “Basic versus Applied Research” on 8 October. With the aim of engaging society, the lectures explored the interfaces between basic and
On the 19 and 20 September, AIMS South Africa had the pleasure of hosting two groups of students pursuing undergraduate studies in mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics, and computer science from the universities of Limpopo (UL) and Walter Sisulu (WSU). The students visited AIMS as part of their educational tour as required by the Department of
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), as a publicly funded, selfgoverning organisation of the institutions of higher education in Germany, promotes international academic exchange as well as educational co-operation with developing countries through a variety of funding and scholarship programmes. As part of the “In-Region Scholarship Progamme” DAAD offers scholarships for PhD studies. The programme is funded
AIMS South Africa welcomed its August 2019 intake consisting of forty students (including 19 women) from 23 African countries. An introduction session for the new intake was held on Monday 26 August and a formal presentation on the AIMS programme was held on Wednesday. The students were welcomed to AIMS and asked to say something about
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