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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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IMO Training Camp

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...

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AIMS 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,...

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University 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

Please click on the link below to view the article. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/mandela-politics-his-profession-education-his-passion/article15800318/

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Tribute 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....

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Seven 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...

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South 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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