The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in partnership with the University of Waterloo and the University of Ottawa will host a three-day Work-Integrated Learning (WIL*) workshop from 28–30 October 2019 in Kigali, Rwanda. WIL is the term given to an activity or program that integrates academic learning with its application in the workplace. The […]
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) initiated a project to develop a comprehensive environmental policy for the AIMS network. AIMS acknowledges the importance of protecting environmental values as part of the global community. This project was developed with the assistance of Academics Without Borders and the University of Calgary. Academics Without Borders (AWB) is […]
OTTAWA: AIMS is a proud supporter of the African and Canadian Women in STEM conference, which was held in Ottawa on 25 March 2019. The Challenges and Opportunities for the Women in STEM conference was organized within the broader framework of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and the International Women’s Day […]
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) and the University of Minesota announced a new partnership today for exchanging knowledge and accelerating educational opportunities for talented African mathematicians. The University of Minnesota is one of only four universities in the United States who are AIMS academic partners. Founded in 2003, AIMS recruits Africa’s most talented […]
By Kelly Haggart Before moving into the STEM Complex in 2018, Department of Mathematics and Statistics staff pruned their book collection. Donating what they could to AIMS Senegal was an obvious choice. The department has supported AIMS in a variety of ways since 2010, when uOttawa became the network’s first Canadian university partner. “AIMS centres […]
The AIMS community congratulates Professor Neil Turok, AIMS Founder and Chair of the International Board of Directors for being named an Honorary Officer of the Order of Canada on 29 June 2018. The Order of Canada was established in 1967 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. It recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and […]
Gaby St-Pierre and Anne Fannon lead the Cooperative Education Workshop AIMS Senegal hosted a two-day interactive workshop on cooperative education on 16-17 May 2018. Developed under the Skills for Employability (SFE) project, supported by Global Affairs Canada and the MasterCard Foundation, this collaborative initiative compliments the existing cooperative education program and aims to increase […]
[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 […]
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 […]
