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AIMS South Africa Newsletter February 2015
AIMS South Africa Newsletter February 2015
Canadian
delegation visit
Summer School in
Mathematical
Finance
New Senior
Researcher
Masters Thesis
Defences
Cosmology Group 2
updates
SACEMA visits
AIMS
Student updates
Governance
Staff news
Public Lecture
Network news
Announcements
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Dr Simukai
Utete has
been appointed
as a Senior
Researcher at
the AIMS South Africa Research
Centre.
Dr Utete's undergraduate
degree was in electrical engineering from the University of
Zimbabwe. She completed her
MSc and DPhil studies at the
University of Oxford and went
on to do a Junior Research
Fellowship and further research
Jeffrey
Raabia
Nakedi
Dr Tadesse
On 16 February, Mr Nakedi
Wilson Leboho delivered the
defence of his thesis titled:
Quantitative Risk Management
and Pricing for Equity-Based
Insurance Guarantees. He
was supervised by Dr Raouf
Ghomrasni.
Journal Club
Dr Amara
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Tesfahun Berhane
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Student updates
The January intake of students
completed the following courses:
Programming with Python (Jeff
Sanders, and AIMS tutor) and
Statistics with R (Theis Lange,
Copenhagen).
The August intake completed
the following courses: Industrial
Mathematics (Neville Fowkes,
Western Australia); Introduction to Random Systems, Information Theory, and related
topics (Stphane Ouvry, Paris
Sud XI) and Analytical Tech-
Governance
The AIMS South Africa Council
meeting took place on Tuesday
17 February 2015.
Public Lectures
On Tuesday 24 February, the
AIMS Public Lecture series
presented a talk titled:
Staff News
AIMS South Africa welcomed
the following new staff
Ms Ntombomzi
Magqazolo (Finance
Department)
Ms Caroline Chiwah
(Finance
Department)
AIMSSEC
The AIMSSEC February 2014
newsletter can be viewed at
http://aimssec.aims.ac.za/assets/
files/Newsletters/February-2015
-AIMSSEC.pdf
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Ms Joan Africa-Brown
(Research and Admin
Department)
Network News
Various meetings organised by
the AIMS-NEI Global Secretariat
took place from 6-13 February
2015.
The meetings included a new
staff orientation, a gender
training workshop, a
programme implementation
planning workshop and a
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Workshops
3rd International Workshop on Nonlinear and Modern Mathematical Physics 9-11 April 2015, Cape Town, South Africa
This workshop is being held in Muizenberg, Cape Town, South Africa
from 9 to 11 April 2015, and co-organized by AIMS South Africa, the
University of South Florida and North West University. The workshop
aims to survey recent advances on a wide range of topics of current
interest in nonlinear and modern mathematical physics including: integrable
and near-integrable equations, physical and engineering applications such
as nonlinear optics, Bose-Einstein condensates and fluid dynamics, and
numerical aspects of nonlinear phenomena. The workshop will provide a
forum for scientists and researchers worldwide to present their latest
results and a means to discuss their recent research with each other.
Please click here for the workshop website.
Announcements
2015-16 AIMS Scholarship for Masters' in Mathematical
Sciences are Now Open
Student applications have opened for the August 2015 intake. For more
information and how to apply, visit www.nexteinstein.org/study. You will
notice that the application system provides for both French and English
versions.For any queries please send an e-mail to applications2015@nexteinstein.org.
The closing date for applications is 23 March 2015.
Call for course proposals
The AIMS structured Master's in Mathematical Sciences programme
commences in August each year at all centres. AIMS South Africa has a
second intake for South African students commencing in January. August
2015 at all centres and January 2016 at AIMS South Africa. For more
information and to apply:
http://www.aims.ac.za/en/apply/structured-masters-course-proposals
Postdoctoral Fellowships
AIMS South Africa is seeking applicants for Postdoctoral Fellowships in
the area of mathematical finance and computational algebra. Fellowships
are tenable for two years, contingent on satisfactory progess, and could
be extended for a third year. Fellowships are immediately available and
the value of the award ranges between R200 R240k per annum,
taxfree, subject to qualification and experience. Preference will be given
to African applicants and those from SADC member states are particularly encouraged. Please click on the links below for project descriptions
for the two positions: Financial Mathematics; Computational Algebra;
Mathematical Biology
For more information please visit http://www.aims.ac.za/en/
opportunities/vacancies/postdoctoral-fellowships
Send completed applications to rene@aims.ac.za
Send subject related questions to jeff@aims.ac.za
Symposium information
The symposium will include a variety of keynotes, paper presentations, and posters describing dynamic research in complex diseases to identify the most promising avenues of future research
to effectively associate phenotypes and phenotypes for African
diseases.
Date: 23-24 April 2015
Venue: Muizenburg, South Africa.
http://h3abionet.org/gwas-conference-2015
Please click here to view the conference flyer.
For information on exhibiting at the symposium please click here.
CIMPA-SOUTH AFRICA RESEARCH SCHOOL:
Algebraic Representation Theory and Applications
This research school will be hosted at AIMS South Africa and the aim
of the school is to give a broad perspective of areas of modern
representation theory and to highlight some recent advances.
Date: July 19 - 31, 2015
Venue: AIMS, Muizenberg, Cape Town
For more information please visit
http://cimpa2015algebraicreptheory.weebly.com/
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