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Join us in celebrating the bright future of AI in Africa!
August 5, 2024
We are grateful to GoogleDeepMind for incredible support, and dozens of visiting lecturers and supervisors who share their time, energy and expertise to train very bright students. Then, of course, our students who show us every day what excellence really means! Our graduates plan to be pioneering AI applications in sustainability, healthcare, and astronomy. From
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Prize for AIMS-NEI Director of Academic Development
The Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) is awarded to Dr. Carolina Ödman-Govender, director of academic development of the AIMS – Next Einstein Initiative (AIMS – NEI). Ödman-Govender...
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Africa AIMS high
Eight years ago, physicist Neil Turok set up the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in South Africa. The initiative is now set to expand across the continent. Read the full...
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Transforming Africa
Neil Turok wrote an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail: Transforming Africa, one student at a time. The piece says “Institute recruits top graduates in math, science and engineering to...
Read MoreAIMS Graduation Ceremony 2011
55 students from 21 different African countries graduated with the AIMS Postgraduate Diploma in Mathematical Sciences on 23rd of June 2011. The group includes 16 women and brings the total...
Read MoreAIMS-CIMPA Memorandum of Understanding
Prof Alain Damlamian (CIMPA) and Prof Barry Green (AIMS) have signed a memorandum of understanding in which AIMS undertakes to host a biennial CIMPA School. The agreement was signed on...
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Ghana government commits funding to AIMS Ghana
The President of Ghana, Professor John Atta-Mills, through Vice-President John Mahama, has committed 1.5 million US dollars to the building of AIMS-Ghana, a pan-African centre of excellence in the mathematical...
Read MoreUNESCO conference focuses on AIMS
An international conference promoting the development of science in Africa, and AIMS in particular, was held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris this week. Leading scientists, political leaders and students...
Read MoreReview of AIMS
AIMS and its Research Centre have are currently being reviewed by a high profile panel of scientists including Prof David Gross (A Nobel Prize winner for Physics), Prof Gerhard Frey...
Read MoreAward for visiting AIMS researcher
Visiting Senior Researcher, Prof Douw Steyn has been awarded a mentorship medal by the Board of Directors of the Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences. CFES/FCST awards the medal annually to...
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