German Research Chair of Mathematics with specialization in Data Science
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) South Africa
Senior Lecturer (Asst. Professor), Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University
AIMS South Africa Research Centre | 6 Melrose Road | Muizenberg | Cape Town 7945 | South Africa
+27 (0)21 787 9339 (Work) | +27 (0)71 141 6579 (Cell) | bubacarr [at] aims [dot] ac [dot] za
News
News
- 03/12/2018: The Large-scale optimization course of the Theoretical Foundations of Data Science programme 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: July Workshop of the 2018 Theoretical Foundations of Data Science 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 1 of Theoretical Foundations of Data Science Doctoral School 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
