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Vol.
25 No. 3
May - June 2003
Foundation
of an African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
This
important new initiative in capacity building in science education
will provide an Africa-based solution to African problems,
facilitated by the international scientific community. It
is to be realized in South Africa and will have a primary
impact there, but its influence and benefit will extend throughout
the African continent. The initiative, which has already received
the support of the South African National Research Foundation
and the endorsement of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, is to
establish an African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
in Muizenberg, a suburb of Cape Town, where a very well-adapted
building has been donated for this purpose. Here, "mathematical
sciences" is to be understood as mathematics together with
its applications in such diverse fields as mechanics, physics,
chemistry, geophysics, astrophysics, engineering, information
technology, biology, and medicine.
One
goal of the AIMS is to offer a one-year diploma course specially
designed for mathematics and science graduates of African
Universities, which will be taught by a team of internationally
renowned lecturers in close collaboration with South African
academic staff. The course will give the students the mathematical
and computing research skills needed to address important
modern areas of applied mathematics, and will inspire a new
generation of African students to undertake scientific research
of great practical importance.
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