Reports on Recent AIMS Events
The events on Sunday at AIMS have caught the attention of the press in the African and British press.
from Times Online -
Neil Turok…said the aim of the [Aims] centres was to “unlock and nurture scientific talent” across Africa. “Apart from an African Einstein, we want to find the African Bill Gates and the Sergey Brins and Larry Pages of the future,” said Turok…The 15 new centres will be modelled on the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Aims) which was founded by Turok in Muizenberg, near Cape Town, four years ago. It has produced 160 graduates from 30 African countries, many of whom have gone on to take science doctorates. Another 53 will graduate shortly.
Among them is Buthaina Adam, whose mathematical skills shone out in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur province where she grew up. With a physics degree from the University of Khartoum, she hoped to become a nuclear physicist, but shortage of money and opportunities left her career on hold until she was offered a place at Aims in 2006.
“Aims gave me a life, opened doors for me,” said Adam, who hopes to return to Darfur and teach after completing a PhD.
from IOL -
The next Einstein is in the preprimary class of a township school about 100km from Cape Town and will need the help of the Muizenberg-based Aims (African Institute of Mathematical Sciences) if she is to achieve her full potential.
Physics Nobel laureate for 2004 David Gross made this hypothetical prediction on Sunday in support of Aims’s Einstein Initiative, which seeks to recruit and nurture the brightest maths and science graduates on the African continent.
