AIMS-Senegal
students, all postgraduated or graduated of master's programs, are
talented young researchers who were selected from a large number of
applications received each year from all over Africa. Thus, the
first promotion of AIMS-Senegal is composed of 35 students including
15 African nationalities. AIMS-Sénégal, according to its
policy of woman empowerment, nearly a tenth of students (5) are students this year. This promotion was supported by a team of six tutors
(including 2 women) from three African countries and two countries European.
Throughout
the year our students were able to follow their stride by chaining
periods of 3 weeks classes, ranging from algebraic to the statistical
study, but also through biophysics and many more topics that you
will be able find on our lecturers page.
Our
students also had the opportunity to attend lectures given by some of
our teachers. Thus, Marie-Francoise Roy (University of Rennes)
could expound on real roots, a complex history and subject that our
students will now more easily understand. Pr. Nakoulima
(University of Guyana and French Antilles) also proposed a conference
on distributed systems, a subject not enough studied but students had
therefore the chance to approach a new subject of reflection.
In
the near future, AIMS-Senegal will focus even more closely into solar
energy, but until then students have had classes on this subject and
attended a practical session organized by Pr. Gregory Sissoko (UCAD,
Dakar): a solar panel, a battery, an alternator, a neon light ... and
let there be light.
While our green and peaceful campus offers a
quiet atmosphere which noone could easily go away from, our academic
center gave occasional entertainement to our students in order to
provide them with another perspective on Senegal that the
mathematical sciences one. Earlier this year our students have
been able to discover the natural reserve of Bandia, Goree Island and
finally the beaches of La Somone and Toubab Dialaw. Our tutors,
who are also immersed in campus life at the same level as students,
join them for weekly recreational walks along the beach of Mbour and
for joyful volleyball and table tennis games.
