Graduation took place on the 24th of June 2008 at the Muizenberg Pavilion. Graduates and academics met at the AIMS building from where they proceeded to the Pavilion. Of the 53 students, 52 graduated and eight of these did so with distinction. The Minister of Education, Naledi Pandor, gave the main address at the ceremony.
The graduation ceremony for the Diploma students took place at AIMS on 23rd June 2007. The diplomas were conferred on the students by the Vice Chancellors of the three local universities: Prof Russel Botman (Stellenbosch), Prof Brian O’Connell (University of the Western Cape) and Prof Njabulo Ndebele (University of Cape Town). The main speaker and
Read the remarks by Minister of Science and Technology Mosibudi Mangena at the launch of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Research Centre of Excellence in the Mathematical Sciences, Muizenburg, Cape Town, 12 May 2008.
South Africans Archbishop Desmond Tutu and physicist Neil Turok were among the 10 global luminaries who received ‘Most Innovative People Awards’ at this year’s World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (WSIE), as reported in sagoodnews.co.za.
AIMS featured in an article by Megan Lindlow called Africa Steps Up Efforts to Train Top Scientists in the Chronicle of Higher Education on 7 March 2008.
AIMS featured in Nature Materials on 21 October 2007 in an article called Advancing science in Africa, by Jeroen van der Brink and Izak Snyman, who recently taught a course at AIMS.
The South African Minister of Education, Naledi Pandor, recently visited AIMS, and announced that AIMS is to receive substantial DoE funding.
The students were awarded their diplomas by their respective universities on 23 June 2006. The ceremony was held at AIMS in Muizenberg and was conducted by Martin Hall for the University of Cape Town, Chris Brink for Stellenbosch University and Brian O’Connell for the University of the Western Cape. The Minister of Science and Technology,
The Postgraduate Diploma Programme 2005-6 alumni have published a magazine, the AIMS Tribune.
The AIMS 2004/5 graduation took place on 24 June at 5pm. Forty-one students successfully defended an essay for their postgraduate diploma. Professor Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, gave a lecture entitled Bits and Atoms at 1:30pm. Professor Romain Murenzi, the Hon. Minister of Education, Science and Technology (Rwanda), presented a mathematical lecture
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