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The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) is Africa’s first network of centres of excellence in mathematical sciences.
AIMS Ghana launches School and Workshop on Stochastic Optimal Control and Applications (SOCA)
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Ghana, launched the School and Workshop on Stochastic Optimal Control and Applications at AIMS Ghana Campus, Biriwa, Central Region on 14 August 2017. Thirty-two participants from thirteen Countries in Africa and Europe...
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AIMS Ghana organised ‘Introduction to Genomics Big Data Sciences (GBDS)’ workshop at its campus in Biriwa, Central Region, from 10 – 14 July 2017. The GBDS workshop was under the leadership of Dr. Gaston K. Mazandu, Research Chair at AIMS Ghana & AIMS South...
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AIMS Ghana President Inducted as a Fellow of the Nigerian Mathematical Society
Prof. Francis K. A. Allotey, President of AIMS Ghana, has been inducted as a 'Fellow of the Nigerian Mathematical Society'. A seven member Delegation, led by the President of Nigeria Mathematical Society, Prof. N. I. Akinwande, travelled from Nigeria to Ghana to...
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AIMS Ghana Calls for Support to Drive Development through Mathematical Sciences
The African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Ghana is rallying stakeholders, including industry and the Diplomatic Corps, to support government’s bold ambition to transform Ghana’s development through research, innovation and the practical application of...
read moreAIMS Ghana Welcomes Another Research Chair Under the German Research Chair Programme
Transforming Africa through Research Capacity Building within the Mathematical Sciences Mathematics is a scarce skill in Africa and particularly stochastic analysis and its applications. Africa is ideally placed to develop a critical mass of expertise within these...
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AIMS Ghana/ICTP School and Workshop on Homological Methods in Algebra and Geometry Commences!
AIMS Ghana is excited to announce that the School and Conference on Homological Methods in Algebra and Geometry commenced on 1st August 2016, and will continue until Friday, 12th August 2016! The program is sponsored by the Abdus Salam International Centre for...
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Expanding our Work in International Development
The adoption of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals at the turn of the century – followed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 – presented a major challenge to statisticians measuring the progress being made towards them. Both sets of goals...
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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...
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Professor Allotey Calls for Adequate Finance of Science
Professor Francis Kofi Ampenyin Allotey, a renowned Ghanaian Mathematical Physicist has reiterated the call on African Governments to put in place deliberate policies to adequately finance mathematics, Science and Technology education. This, he said, is the best means...
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AIMS Ghana Graduates 48 Master's Students at its Fourth Graduation Ceremony
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Ghana (AIMS Ghana) held its fourth graduation ceremony on June 25, 2016, at the Centre for National Culture, Cape Coast, to award forty-eight students with Master’s degrees in Mathematical Sciences. The graduates,...
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AIMS Ghana Organises Mathematics Teacher Training Workshop in Wa
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Ghana, in partnership with the Government of Ghana organised the second mathematics workshop for basic school teachers in the Upper West Regional capital, Wa. A total of fifty teachers from Wa West district participated...
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AIMS Delegation Visits Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada
Ottawa, Ontario (October 1) – The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, or AIMS, arrived on Parliament Hill this week with a stunning update on its Next Einstein Initiative. Though the next prodigy still eludes, with Canada’s help AIMS has produced an...
read moreAIMS Ghana Launches Mathematics Teacher Training Workshop Series
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Ghana (AIMS-Ghana), a non-profit pan-African network of Centres of Excellence in education and research, has launched a Mathematics Teacher Training Workshop Series to promote teaching and learning of mathematics,...
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ESMT Bringing African Students to Study in Germany
ESMT partnering with African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Nelly Kasei Ogonda first Kofi Annan Fellow in new Master’s in Management program ESMT European School of Management and Technology is partnering with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences...
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A Bright African Scientist Returns to Africa
Bringing back Africa’s own talent – A bright African scientist returns to Africa: AIMS ARETÉ Junior Chairs programme launched in collaboration with the AIMS – Next Einstein Initiative and the Robert Bosch Stiftung Cape Town, South Africa/Stuttgart, Germany (July 24th,...
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Entrepreneurship for Scientist and Engineers in West Africa 2014
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Ghana and the Institute of Physics (IOP), U.K, jointly organised the 2014 Entrepreneurship workshop at AIMS-Ghana campus, from 14th -18th July 2014. 39 participants from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Burkina Faso and Kenya...
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AIMS Founder and Chairman conferred Honourary Doctorate
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) (Port Elizabeth, South Africa) conferred an honorary doctoral degree on Neil Turok, acclaimed physicist and founder of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, in recognition of his significant and ground-breaking...
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AIMS-Ghana Management Meets President Mahama
The management of AIMS-Ghana, represented by Prof. Francis K. A. Allotey, Mr. Kwame Atsiavor and Mr. Samuel Awuku met with His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama on December 17th, 2013 during a visit to a Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences building project....
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