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Siyakhula Festival a Beacon of Mathematical Excellence and Collaboration
March 25, 2024
From 17 to 22 March 2024, AIMS South Africa hosted the Siyakhula Festival, a dynamic week-long celebration in Muizenberg, Cape Town. Coinciding with AIMS’s 20th anniversary, this event also commemorated the 12th anniversary of the German Research Chairs Programme and the 10th anniversary of the Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (CoE-MaSS). “Siyakhula,”
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Neil Turok wins TED award
AIMS proudly announces that its founder and Chair of the AIMS Council, Neil Turok, has won the prestigious TED award. This highlights the significance of Cosmology in Cambridge and Neil’s vision...
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Neil Turok appointed Executive Director of Perimeter Institute
The founder of AIMS and chair of the AIMS Council, Neil Turok, has been appointed Executive Director of the Perimeter Institute. It is also reported in Physicsworld and SymmetryBreaking.
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South Africans honoured at Innovative People Awards
South Africans Archbishop Desmond Tutu and physicist Neil Turok were among the 10 global luminaries who received ‘Most Innovative People Awards’ at this year’s World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship...
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Chronicle Higher Education 2008
AIMS featured in an article by Megan Lindlow called Africa Steps Up Efforts to Train Top Scientists in the Chronicle of Higher Education on 7 March 2008.
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Nature Materials 2007
AIMS featured in Nature Materials on 21 October 2007 in an article called Advancing science in Africa, by Jeroen van der Brink and Izak Snyman, who recently taught a course at...
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AIMS receives DoE funding
The South African Minister of Education, Naledi Pandor, recently visited AIMS, and announced that AIMS is to receive substantial DoE funding.
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PGD Graduation 2005-6
The students were awarded their diplomas by their respective universities on 23 June 2006. The ceremony was held at AIMS in Muizenberg and was conducted by Martin Hall for the...
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AIMS Tribune Alumni Magazine
The Postgraduate Diploma Programme 2005-6 alumni have published a magazine, the AIMS Tribune.
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PGD Graduation 2004-5
The AIMS 2004/5 graduation took place on 24 June at 5pm. Forty-one students successfully defended an essay for their postgraduate diploma. Professor Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT’s Center for Bits...
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