The search for the NextEinstein just expanded to Nigeria.  On Monday June 30, a new AIMS center opened in Abuja, the capital city.  AIMS (Abuja), based at the African University of Science and Technology (AUST), is the second of the fifteen AIMS centers to be rolled-out across Africa in the next 5 years.  Many lectures from AIMS in Cape Town will be teaching there in the coming year and some AIMS graduates who are currently pursuing their PhDs are applying to be lecturers there. 

Karl Voltaire, chief executive of AIMS (Abuja), told physicsworld.com that the new centre already has 50 students from across the continent and that classes began on Monday. “[Setting up AIMS (Abuja)] has been an exhilarating experience, frustrating at times, but well worth the effort of bringing students from across the continent to a place where they can learn with top faculty from all over the world,” he said. “The challenges now include bringing more African women into science and convincing policy-makers across the continent of the importance of developing a scientific elite.”

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