News

• 01/04/2020: Chair welcomes Dr. Daniel Nickelsen who joined the AIMS Data Science Research Group as a postdoctoral fellow

• 01/03/2020: Chair visits the CommIT Group at TU Berlin

• 18/02/2020: Visitor - Dr. Jannis Kurtz, Postdoc at the Chair of Information Processing, RWTH Aachen University

• 01/02/2020: Chair welcomes MSc students to the AIMS Data Science Research Group: Kibidi, Tshenolo, and Kiprono

• 02/01/2020: Visitor - Dr Hans-Georg Zimmermann from Fraunhofer IBMT, and AIMS Associate Research Fellow

• 01/12/2019: Visitor/intern - Muhammad Sirajo Abdullahi, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi

• 22/10/2019: Visitor/intern - Christian Plitz, Dept. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University of Munich

• 16/09/2019: The Spring School on Mathematics of Data Science 2019 kicks-off at AIMS South Africa, Cape Town

• 25/08/2019: Deep Learning Indaba 2019 kicks-off at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

• 13/08/2019: Chair visits the Applied Functional Analysis Group and CommIT Group at TU Berlin

• 29/07/2019: DATA 2019 Workshop (co-organised by Chair) kicks-off at AIMS Ghana, Accra

• 09/07/2019: Chair gave a plenary talk at the SampTA 2019 conference at the University of Bordeaux

• 17/06/2019: Chair attended the ASCW03 Workshop at the Isaac Newton Institute at Cambridge University

• 13/06/2019: Chair visits the Chair for Mathematics of Information Processing, RWTH Aachen University

• 12/05/2019: Deep Learning IndabaX The Gambia 2019 kicks-off at the University of The Gambia

• 29/04/2019: Chair visited Courant Institute and Center for Data Science at NYU, New York

• 24/04/2019: Application open for Spring School on Mathematics of Data Science at AIMS South Africa. Deadline: June 30

• 20/04/2019: Application open for Data Analysis, Theory & Applications (DATA) Workshop at AIMS Ghana. Deadline: June 10

• 05/04/2019: Visitor - Rendani Mbuvha, PhD student in Artificial Intelligence, University of Johannesburg

• 01/04/2019: Visitor - Ilan Price, PhD student, Data Science Group, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University

• 28/03/2019: Chair attended the launch of Future Africa at the University of Pretoria.

• 27/03/2019: Chair delivered a plenary talk at SANUM 2019 at the University of Pretoria.

• 26/03/2019: Chair became a member of the Google's Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC)

• 18/03/2019: Chair is teaching a Data Science course at AIMS Cameroon.

• 15/03/2019: Internship opportunity at the Chair's Data Science Group (DSG) at AIMS South Africa.

• 01/01/2019: Chair became a member of the SIAM Diversity Advisory Committee.

• 03/12/2018: Workshop III of Theoretical Foundations of Data Science Programme 2018 kicks-off at Wits.

• 26/11/2018: SEAMS kicks-off!

• 20/11/2018: Chair organises a Data Science session at SAMSA 2018 in Botswana, slides, photos

• 12/11/2018: Visitor - Dr. Olivier Pamen, German Research Chair in Mathematics and its Applications at AIMS Ghana

• 02/11/2018: Visitor - Dr Marc Sedjro, German Research Chair for Applied Mathematics at AIMS Tanzania

• 15/10/2018: Visitors - Dr Peter Jung, Stephan Waeldchen, and Osman Musa from TU Berlin

• 15/10/2018: Visitor - Dr Hans-Georg Zimmermann from Fraunhofer IBMT, and AIMS Associate Research Fellow

• 09/09/2018: Deep Learning Indaba 2018 kicks off

• 04/09/2018: PhD Opening in Communications and Information Theory (with Chair's collaborators) at CommIT, TU Berlin

• 02/07/2018: Workshop II of Theoretical Foundations of Data Science Programme 2018 kicks off

• 04/06/2018: Call for application to DAAD funded PhD–Study at AIMS South Africa under Chair's supervision. Deadline: June 18

• 16/04/2018: Chair looking for interest in NRF Freestanding, Innovation & Scarce Skills Postdoctoral Fellowships 2019. Applicants must apply on the NRF Online Submission System.

• 09/04/2018: AIMS Data Science Workshop 2018 kicks-off.

• 09/04/2018: Workshop I of Theoretical Foundations of Data Science Programme 2018 kicks-off.

• 04/04/2018: SANUM 2018 kicks-off.

• 31/03/2018: Visitor - Prof Holger Rauhut, Head of Chair C for Mathematics (Analysis) and Head of Mathematics Department, RWTH Aachen University

• 26/03/2018: Chair organizes a Humboldt-AIMS event at NEF to showcase work of German Research Chairs in the AIMS Network.

• 19/03/2018: Data to Quantum Workshop organized under the Quantum Leap Africa project in AIMS Rwanda in Kigali kicks-off.

• 05/03/2018: AIMS Data Science Workshop 2018 application open, see here.

• 12/02/2018: Chair co-organizes the Data to Quantum Workshop at AIMS Rwanda in Kigali.

• 12/02/2018: Chair visits Prof Kasso Okuodjou, and attends FFT2018 at University of Maryland, College Park.

• 20/01/2018: Chair hosts a special issue on Recent Developments in Signal Approximation, in Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Section of Mathematics of Computation and Data Science (Co-associate Editor: Jean-Luc Bouchot, RWTH Aachen).

• 02/01/2018: First workshop of Theoretical Foundations of Data Science Course moved to April, call re-opens, see here.

• 22/12/2017: Call for Postdoctoral fellowship in Data Science at AIMS South Africa re-opens, see here.

• 21/11/2017: Applications open for Theoretical Foundations of Data Science Course.

• 30/10/2017: Chair and Prof Nongxa (Wits) won a DHET Teaching Development Grant for Theoretical Foundations of Data Science. Read more

• 19/10/2017: Other openings for MSc, PhD and postdoc available. Send inquiries to here.

• 19/10/2017: Call for Postdoctoral fellowship in Data Science at AIMS South Africa is out. Read more.

• 17/10/2017: Chair organizing a session on Data Science at SANUM 2018. Contact Chair if you would like to give a talk.

• 16/10/2017: Visitor - Prof Kasso Okuodjou, Associate Head of the Dept. of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park

• 21/09/2017: Chair attended Executive Machine Learning conference and training in Johannesburg

• 15/09/2017: Chair took part in a panel discussion at the Deep Learning Indaba. Videos & slides

• 06/08/2017: Chair gave an invited talk at SPIE conference at San Diego in the session on Wavelets and Sparsity XVII. Slides

• 01/08/2017: Chair visited the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Data Science at NYU

• 01/06/2017: Chair visited German collaborators in TU Berlin and RWTH Aachen

• 22/05/2017: Data Science Workshop kicks-off. Schedule, Slides

• 15/04/2017: Chair visited the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Data Science at NYU

• 15/04/2017: Deep Learning Indaba planning launched Read more

• 13/03/2017: Chair took part in the Planning Workshop of Quantum Leap Africa (QLA) at AIMS Rwanda in Kigali

• 27/01/2017: Data Science Workshop planning launched Read more

• 23/01/2017: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Data Science. Read more

• 23/11/2016: German Research Chair gave a plenary talk at the Southern Africa Mathematical Sciences Association Annual Conference (SAMSA 2016). Read more

• 17/11/2016: Bubacarr arrived in Cape Town to take up the German Research Chair position at AIMS-South Africa. Read more