AIMS for Africa Neil Turok Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics IDRC, February 2010

Our African origins

Planck Einstein Newton Maxwell-Yang-Mills Dirac Yukawa Higgs Schrodinger.. Feynman scientific knowledge Kobayashi-Maskawa completely free to share our most valuable treasure key to our future

smallest-distance microscope CERN LHC

furthest-seeing telescope: WMAP

G  = 8  G T  spacetime energy

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.” A. Einstein

African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

an African Institute * pan-African student body * outstanding international lecturers * students, tutors, lecturers live in * a 24-hour learning environment Relevant Innovative Cost-Effective High Quality

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AIMS 2008

goal: To create 15 AIMS Centres, across Africa, within a decade

Why this is important launch of AIMS Next Einstein Initiative

Daphne

African Mathematical Institutes Network (AMI-Net) endorses Next Einstein Initiative

Africa is the world’s greatest untapped pool of scientific and technical talent It is also the continent in greatest need Developing Africa’s brightest minds is vital to her future Only Africans can fix Africa “Smart Aid” proposal for G8

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One for Many AIMS Scholarships Plan if your University pays the cost of ONE graduate scholarship on your campus to an AIMS Centre each year it will support 4-5 full scholarships at an AIMS Centre this will grow strong links - faculty and student exchanges: making your University more attractive recruit 3-4 AIMS grads to your PhD programs per year 10 US Universities can in this way support the entire scholarship costs of an AIMS centre, forever A sustainable plan for “science diplomacy” Waterloo and Guelph have already signed up

Shehu Abdussalam

“We will open centers of scientific excellence in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, and appoint new Science Envoys to collaborate on programs that develop new sources of energy, create green jobs, digitize records, clean water and grow new crops” (Obama speech, 2009, Cairo) Sasa ni Sawa

6 years 255 graduates from 30 countries Last year: 267 applications received 50 admitted 50 graduated 38% women 96% proceeded to Masters/PhDs 22 international lecturers This year: 54 students from 18 countries, including 20 women AIMS in numbers

Proposed Sites: AIMS Cape Town (2003) AIMS Abuja (2008, AUST) AIMS Senegal AIMS Ghana AIMS Ethiopia

Ghana Nigeria Madagascar Uganda Sudan Cape Town Senegal Ethiopia

AIMS Impact: Tanzania Teresia Marijani PhD at SACEMA, SA Angelina Lutambi PhD, Institute of Malaria Research, Tanzania Basel Gasper Mwanga Lecturer at Dar es Salaam Univ. College of Education Jefta Sunzu Masters at KZN, Lecturer at Dodoma Univ. Sara Makongo Lecturer at Mwenge Univ. Geomira Sanga Masters at SACEMA, SA