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Advancing African Early-Career Women in Mathematical Sciences
March 1, 2025
From 28 February to 01 March, AIMS South Africa House of Science, in partnership with African Gong, convened a second Women’s Advancement Forum: International Exchanges, Research & Academia (WAFIRA) workshop in South Africa. WAFIRA is a capacity-building programme that is uniquely centred on the contexts, realities, challenges, opportunities and strengths across the landscape of African
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58 contestants from 12 African countries gathered at AIMS South Africa for a final training camp before they had to solve six mathematical problems within nine hours during the International...
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Condolences at the news of Prof Russel Botman’s death
It is with great sadness that we heard of the death of Prof Russel Botman, the Rector and Vice Chancellor of Stellenbosch University, on Friday night. Russel Botman was a...
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Double honour for Prof Turok
The team at AIMS-South Africa wishes to congratulate Prof Neil Turok, founder and Chairperson of AIMS-South Africa and Chair of the Board of the AIMS-Next Einstein initiative on his recent...
Read MoreAIMS South Africa Council Meeting
The AIMS South Africa Council meeting took place on Friday 21 February 2014 from 11am to 5pm with all council members in attendance. Grahame Richards joined the meeting via Skype and Dorothy Nyambi,...
Read MoreUniversity of Illinois joins AIMS South Africa’s Institute Partners Programme
AIMS South Africa welcomes the Department of Mathematics, the Department of Physics, and the Graduate College of the University of Illinois as the first partners in its recently launched Institute...
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Mandela: Politics his profession, education his passion
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Read MoreTribute to Nelson Mandela
AIMS mourns the passing of Nelson Mandela, our hero and statesman. We count ourselves fortunate to have benefited from Madiba’s warmth, humanity and selfless commitment to the dignity of all....
Read MoreSeven South African students graduate from AIMS South Africa
AIMS South Africa (AIMS-SA) has honoured its second group of South African students at a special Recognition of Achievement Ceremony which was held at the Institute in Muizenberg on 19...
Read MoreSouth Africa successfully starts its hunt for Dark Energy
Figure1: Left: Before image of the host galaxy. Right: the exploding supernova is clearly visible in the left of the galaxy. The supernova has the label: DES13C1feu...
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