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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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Der Spiegel video and article
AIMS was featured in an article that appeared in Der Spiegel in April 2012. The article appears in German, but the video is in English and is available to view at http://video.spiegel.de/flash/1187742_996_560_H264_1400.mp4
Read MoreAIMSSEC one of the winners of the UNESCO-Hamdan Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Prize
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Schools Enrichment Centre (AIMSSEC), together with the Rato Bangala Foundation (Nepal) and the Banco del Libro (Venezuela) will be awarded the UNESCO-Hamdan Bin Rashid...
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Positive review for AIMS and its Research Centre
The panel of high profile scientists which reviewed AIMS and its Research Centre in March 2011, have released their report. The results of the review were extremely positive with the panel concluding...
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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...
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