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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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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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Die Zeit Online 2005
AIMS featured in Die Zeit Online on 18 June 2006 (German). Here is a translate.google.com version in English.
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UK Chief Scientific Advisor at AIMS
Sir David King, the UK government’s Chief Scientific Advisor emphasized African development and climate change as the two top priorities for the next decade during a presentation at AIMS on...
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