AIMS Senegal celebrates International Women’s Day with Lycée Kennedy

On International Women’s Day (March 8), AIMS Senegal Executive Director Amadou Cissé encouraged students at Lycée John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a high school for girls, to pursue their dreams and become future leaders who will play a key role in promoting gender equality. The celebration included a women’s panel with representatives of JEADER, FADEV, JGEN and Blackspoon,

The Chair hosts two research schools

Last February, Professor Moustapha Fall, through the Research Center, organized two workshops: a winter school under the theme “Applied non-linear Dynamics and Scientific Writing” from February 4 to 8, followed by a school of spring on “Local & Nonlocal Elliptic & Geometric problems” from February 18th to 22nd. Organized in partnership with the Leibniz Center for

AIMS NEI Fellowship Program for Women in Climate Change Science: Call for applications

Climate change represents one of humanity’s greatest challenges of the 21st century. The continued ascent of our species depends to a significant extent on our ability to limit further catastrophic changes to the climate and to adapt to both past and future changes. In many parts of the world, changes in climatic variables – including incessant

Fall School on PDEs and Probability

The Fall School is jointly organized by AIMS Senegal and the Goethe-University Frankfurt, and it is funded by the DAADGermany within the project “Joint Steps in Geometric Variational Problems and Related Functional Inequalities”. In addition to participants from AIMS Senegal, up to 20 junior scientists are invited participate. The scientific program and meals will take place

Save The Date: Graduation 2016

Save the Date: Graduation 2016 As the 2015-16 academic year winds down, AIMS-Senegal is happy to begin preparations for Graduation 2016. Over the next two months, Master’s students will be completing their Research Dissertations. While Co-operative students will enter their first work placements. This class is one of the bigger classes since AIMS-Senegal’s inception in 2011.

RSS ‘Statistics in Africa’ Fundraising Campaign Hits Halfway Mark

The RSS has launched a new fundraising campaign to help send RSS fellows over to centres of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) network in Africa to teach MSc courses in statistics. Despite launching only last week to RSS members, the campaign has (at the time of writing) already surpassed the halfway mark towards its £3,500 target, thanks to the generosity of

Second AIMS Imaginary Maths and Science Roadshow, Workshop and Exhibition

Introduction This second edition of the AIMS–IMAGINARY Maths and Science Roadshow, Workshop and Exhibition will showcase interactive visual and hands-on tools used to stimulate interest in maths and sciences among diverse groups of people. The event targets primary, secondary, high school and university learners and teachers/lecturers. It will consist of (1) an AIMS–IMAGINARY Maths and Science Roadshow packed with