By Carla Reiter| In a Cape Town classroom in South Africa, a budding climatologist from Cameroon ponders an environmental model; a physicist-in-training from the Central African Republic takes careful notes; and an ambitious, young computer scientist from Ghana raises her hand to ask a question. At the front of the classroom stands a University of Chicago scholar.
This is the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, a pan-African initiative to teach the most talented African university graduates in high-level mathematics and prepare them for graduate study or careers in the math-based sciences and engineering. During a July 2015 visit to South Africa, Provost Eric D. Isaacs signed an agreement with AIMS to involve UChicago faculty and graduate students in AIMS research and teaching centers in five African countries for stints as teachers, researchers, and tutors.
“We think this is great for African countries and great for the University of Chicago,” says Ian Solomon, UChicago’s vice president for global engagement. “This is going to be the best sort of partnership, in which both sides will get tremendous benefits from our interaction.” Read more:
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Rwanda’s Gov’t and African institute for mathematics sign agreement
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences – Next Einstein Initiative (AIMS-NEI) has as its mission to “enable Africa’s brightest students to flourish as independent thinkers, problem-solvers and innovators capable of propelling Africa’s future scientific, educational and economic self-sufficiency”. One of the central programmes of AIMS is an intensive one year Masters Programme in Mathematical Sciences.
AIMS was established by Prof Neil Turok in 2003 in South Africa and, in addition to the Centre in South Africa, currently has Centres in: Cameroon, Senegal, Ghana, and Tanzania, with the goal to be in 15 countries by 2023.
A partnership Agreement will be signed between the Government of Rwanda and AIMS-NEI on Tuesday February 2nd 2016 at 3pm in MINEDUC with the following objectives:
– Launch AIMS Rwanda, a pan-African centre of excellence in mathematical science.
– Establish the AIMS Secretariat (Operations) in Rwanda.
– Establish the global headquarters of the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) in Rwanda.
– Launch the Quantum Leap Africa research centre in Rwanda...READ MORE