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AIMS Senegal and NEUROTECH signed a partnership agreement.

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On 20 April 2017, Prof. Aissa Wade, AIMS Senegal President, and Mr Adboulaye Mbaye, Neurotech, CEO, signed a partnership agreement between AIMS and Neurotech. NEUROTECH and AIMS Senegal wish to jointly promote the training and professional integration of AIMS Senegal students, particularly in the fields of technology, information and communication. Both parties adhered to the partnership […]

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Cédric Villani : « En Afrique, il y aura bientôt plus d’étudiants en sciences qu’en Asie »

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Je suis allé pour la première fois en Afrique subsaharienne en 2010, d’abord au Sénégal, puis au Cameroun, au Bénin, au Rwanda… Désormais, je m’y rends chaque année durant deux à trois semaines. Je donne des cours de niveau licence ou master, je participe à des conseils scientifiques, je rencontre des personnalités politiques, je donne […]

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AIMS takes Africa on a quantum leap into science

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AIMS’ new centre in Rwanda offers a model many of our organisations, and many entrepreneurs, can follow. It’s an exciting endeavour creating a quantum leap for the continent. But it should also make us ask hard questions about what we deem important and what we talk about As soon as I touched down at Kigali […]

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First Co-operative Master’s Graduation

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On 28 February 2017, AIMS Senegal celebrated the graduation of the first cohort of scholars in the AIMS Co-operative Master’s program. After completing an 18-month work-integrated program by combining course work with practical industry experience the 11 Co-op Scholars from Senegal, Cameroon and Rwanda were awarded their Master’s degrees in the Mathematical Sciences, with specialisations in […]

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Young Canadians can be the innovators the world needs

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The success of activists in changing South Africa inspired me and my colleagues to create the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), a pan-African network of centres providing advanced scientific training to young African minds. AIMS recognizes that Africa’s youth are its future, and that providing them with the skills they need to make a […]

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Transforming Africa, one change agent at a time

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Ms Ivy Mwai, a Senior Program Manager, Education and Learning with Mastercard Foundation visited AIMS Rwanda on 15 December 2016. During her visit, she had a chance to interact with the staff and AIMS Scholars. Ivy spoke to the scholars about the importance of the opportunity availed to them through the AIMS Scholarship and what this […]

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AIMS South Africa celebrates the success of its January intake

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AIMS South Africa acknowledged the success of its fifth group of January intake students at a special Recognition of Achievement Ceremony held on 22 November 2016 at its centre in Muizenberg. Eleven students (including nine South Africans) received their certificates and will graduate through the partner universities that they are registered at. The 11 graduates […]

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AIMS South Africa celebrates the success of its January intake

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AIMS South Africa acknowledged the success of its fifth group of January intake students at a special Recognition of Achievement Ceremony held on 22 November 2016 at its centre in Muizenberg. Eleven students (including nine South Africans) received their certificates and will graduate through the partner universities that they are registered at. The 11 graduates […]

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TTP training of 46 mathematics pedagogic inspectors in Cameroon

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The AIMS Next Einstein Initiative, in partnership with Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program, supported by the Government of Cameroon, organised the training of 46 national and regional pedagogic inspectors for mathematics in Cameroon from the 17 to 29 October 2016.  This training aimed to strengthen the supervision and pedagogic capacities of pedagogic inspectors to enable them to […]

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Neil Geoffrey Turok, Founder of AIMS and Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Wins the John Wheatley Award

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The American Physical Society has awarded Neil Turok with the John Wheatley Award for “visionary efforts to provide science and math training to young Africans, to help promote technological and socio-economic development on the continent.” The John Wheatley Award named after one of the twentieth century pioneers of superfluids was established in 1991 with the […]

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