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 in the intensive workshop from 23rd to 27th November 2015. Renowned trainers from AIMS guided
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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, eighteen females and thirty males drawn from sixteen African countries, were encouraged to go to the world
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 impressive array of more than 731 graduates from 41 African nations with more than
AIMS 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, through outreach programmes, at all levels of education in Ghana. Teachers and pupils, especially those in the most deprived areas
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 (AIMS) to enable highly qualified African graduates to study for the Master’s in Management degree starting on September
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 participated in the workshop designed to build entrepreneurial skills of Scientist and Engineers and accelerate commercialisation of
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, 2014)– One of Africa’s brightest young minds, the mathematician and computer scientist Dr. Antoine Tambue,has
Computational Mixed-Integer Programming Workshop
Abstract: In this one-week course, we offered a training in formulating linear, nonlinear, and mixed-integer optimization problems using the modeling language AMPL (https://ampl.com), and solving these problems with various problem-class specific numerical solvers. Optimization problems are at the core of various decision questions that modern industrial and service companies are facing every day. For example,
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. During the interaction, the president reaffirmed government’s commitment to supporting AIMS-Ghana. The
AIMS-GH Board Member Receives US National Medal of Science
On Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, President Barack Obama awarded Dr. Sylvester James Gates, a member of the board of trustees of AIMS-Ghana and Director of the Centre for String and Particle Theory, University of Maryland, with the National Medal of Science, , during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington.