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AIMS South Africa Newsletter January 2019
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Research at AIMSSEC
The following research papers were conducted on AIMSSEC’s work: A paper delivered by Dr Jennie Golding presented at the AFRICME5 conference in Dar Es Salam In August 2018. Jennie facilitated three times on our MT course. She is an Associate Professor at University...
Professional development for teacher educators and teachers in Uganda
The AIMSSEC Mathematical Thinking Course was held at Makerere University from 2 to 12 January 2019 for 52 mathematics teachers and teacher educators, thirty-eight from Uganda, eight from Tanzania, three from Kenya and three from Rwanda, providing an introduction to...
AIMS South Africa Newsletter November 2018
SALT plays key role in the global hunt for Dark Energy
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), one of the largest optical telescopes in the Southern Hemisphere, has played an important role as part of the international Dark Energy Survey's (DES, https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/) quest to pin down dark energy, the...
AIMSWIS Mentoring Event
‘The Next Einstein is Female! She needs a support system and a conducive environment in order to flourish’. It was under these auspices that the AIMS Women in STEM (AIMSWIS) initiative held a mentoring event on 10 November 2018. The thirty-five women in attendance...
AIMS students will help to shape Africa’s future
Cape Town, 14 November 2018: AIMS South Africa acknowledged the success of its seventh group of January intake students as well as the second group of students who have successfully completed the AIMS-ESMT Industry Immersion Programme (IIP) at a special Recognition of...
Data Science Intensive Program
The 8-week DSI program started on 27 August and finished on 19 October 2018. The DSI is a new program in which 16 participants tackle four consecutive real-world data science projects in teams and is primarily funded by the SA-DISCnet grant which is a collaborative...
AIMS South Africa Newsletter October 2018
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