Hand Drum Rythms, Victoria BC, recently held a benefit concert for AIMS.
Hand Drum Rhythms Benefit Concert 2009
Hand Drum Rythms, Victoria BC, recently held a benefit concert for AIMS.
AIMS featured in an article (French) in LeMonde.fr on 4 December 2009. Here is an English version from google translate.
The AIMS Council is having it’s annual meeting on 8 January 2010.
Cambridge University Press (CUP) celebrated the launch of the AIMS Library Series at a special event at AIMS on Thursday 29 October. Stephen Bourne, CEO of CUP, addressed the gathering and Prof Alan Beardon, author of the first title in the series, spoke about how the series was conceptualised.
All forty-two Diploma students graduated on 25 June 2009 at a special ceremony held at the Muizenberg Pavilion. The ceremony was addressed by the Kenyan High Commissioner to the Republic of South Africa, His Excellency Mr T Amolo. The vice-chancellors or deputy vice-chancellors of all three local universities officiated the conferring of the Diplomas for
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
Featured on www.nelsonmandela.org.
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.
AIMS launched the Next Einstein Initiative to create new AIMS centres across Africa. It was also covered in an article called Initiative to establish 15 African maths and science centres launched in the Engineering News.