[Students converse at the GAC International Girls and ITC Day event in Ottawa] Global Affairs Canada hosted the first annual International Girls in ITC Day event on April 26. Peter Szyszlo, AIMS-NEI Senior Program Coordinator, attended with AIMS alumni in Canada’s capital Ottawa. “This was an exceptional event to showcase programs like AIMS that are empowering women […]
Peter Szyszlo, coordonnateur principal du African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), a rencontré des professeurs, des praticiens et des étudiants dans le cadre de la conférence de la semaine internationale du développement de l’Université d’Ottawa [https://www.facebook.com/IDW.SDI/] le 10 février. «Le partenariat avec l’Université d’Ottawa est un élément clé du succès de AIMS», déclare M. Szyszlo. […]
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Canada’s senior program coordinator Peter Szyszlo met with professors, practitioners and students as part of the University of Ottawa’s International Development Week conference [https://www.facebook.com/IDW.SDI/] on 10 February. “AIMS partnerships with the University of Ottawa has been a key ingredient to AIMS’s success,” Szyszlo said. “There are numerous ways that […]
AIMS South Africa hosted a workshop on discrete mathematics and its applications featuring women and their research in graph theory, combinatorics, and discrete optimization. This was the second important work shop featuring women in science in as many months. The luminaries assembled from Jan. 24 to 26. The top goals were to develop a […]
Cameroon’s Minister of Secondary Education Ernest Bibehe surprised the second batch of AIMS Cameroon Teacher Training Program (TTP) trainees from the Anglophone sub-educational system with a visit on Jan. 23. The second cohort is comprised of 39 men and 11 women teachers training to be better math school teachers. The minister saw novel techniques to […]
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences – Next Einstein Initiative (AIMS-NEI), welcomed back Canadian High Commissioner Sara Hradecky for an industry summit in Kigali on Jan. 12. “AIMS centres of excellence, including the one here in Kigali, contribute to building Africa’s human capital,” said High Commissioner Hradecky. The event was supported by the Government of […]
AIMS Canada has had a busy quarter influencing several public engagement events on gender equity. Karen Craggs-Milne, Head of AIMS Canada and Global Group Director of Gender Equality, Inclusion and Business Development, delivered a keynote speech on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) and its targets for achieving Gender Equality during the Peace […]
The Bank of Kigali and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) signed a five-year deal to match financial services opportunities with graduates skilled in mathematical sciences. The partnership encourages AIMS graduates to work on bank business problems and develop solutions by designing prototypes for new products and services to support the Bank of Kigali’s […]
A girl in Ethiopia could grow up to engineer a new method for improving agricultural yields, if only she could meet the right mentor. A young woman in Malawi has ideas for new cancer treatments, but will never apply them if she is pushed out of school. And a girl in Rwanda has all the […]
Five AIMS Senegal students went to the second edition of its Women’s Mathematics Workshop in Abidjan by the Association des Jeunes Femmes et Mathématiques (AJFM) and the Université Houphouët Boigny on Dec. 4. The workshop was a pan-African platform allowing young mathematicians to meet with role models and women innovators in academia, engineering, medicine and molecular research. “Ce séjour en […]
