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Several EAALG members participated in the Inaugural African Women In Algebra Workshop which took place in the period July 1- 6, 2024 at Kabale University
Celestin Kurujyibwami is visiting ICTP in Italy for a period of one month beginning 6th June 2024.
David Ssevviiri participated in the ICTP school on Number Theory and Physics of June 17-21, 2024 and a follow-up workshop of June 24-28. The two events took place at ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
On June 19, 2024, Caroline Namanya defended her PhD thesis entitled, "Pure Braids and Group Actions from 3-fold Flops" supervised jointly by David Ssevviiri and Michael Wemyss.
In June 2024, professors Michael Wemyss from the University of Glasgow and Will Donovan from the Yau MSC Tsinghua University, Beijing; visited the Department of Mathematics at Makerere University. Michael gave a talk on ``Differentiation of noncommutative functions" and Will gave a talk on ``McKay correspondence and toric geometry".
On March 5, 2024, Brian Makonzi successfully defended his PhD thesis at Makerere University which is entitled, "Computing the Artin Component using Reconstruction Algebras". Brian was supervised by Michael Wemyss and David Ssevviiri. Below is a picture of Brian (4th from right) and his PhD defense panel.
Caroline Namanya is visiting the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath), formerly the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), University of California Berkeley for three months effective 1st February 2024.
The Department of Mathematics Makerere University is hosting two PhD students from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia for a period of three months beginning January 2024. The two PhD students are: Biadiglign Asmare and Amanuel Mamo Senbato.
In February 2024, Luijah Maturu graduated at Makerere University with an MSc degree entitled, "On the Irreducible Representations of the Symmetric Groups S_6 and S_7. Luijah was supervised by Bernardo Rodrigues, David Ssevviiri and Alex Behakanira Tumwesigye.
Makerere University hosted Professor Miles Reid for three weeks beginning 7th July 2023. During this period, Professor Reid taught a course in Algebraic Geometry to EAALG members.
Dr. Dominic Bunnett visited Makerere University for 2 months beginning August 2023.
In July 2023, PhD students Brian Makonzi and Caroline Namanya attended the GAeL workshop at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom.
Teklemichael Bihonegn, a PhD student from Addis Ababa University visited Makerere University for a period of six months beginning July 2023.
In June 2023, Dr. Annet Kyomuhangi participated in the Pragmatic 2023 workshop about cohomology and Frobenius that took place in Catania, Italy.
EAALG members (Alex Bamunoba, Annet Kyomuhangi. Mahadi Ddamulira and David Ssevviiri) are involved in the organisation of Women in Uganda - Sage Workshop.
In May 2023, Prof. David Ssevviiri visited University of Vienna, TU Berlin and University of Amsterdam. He he gave a talk in Vienna about the locally nilradical, reduced modules and the MGM Equivalence , and was a speaker in a symposium at the University of Amsterdam.
Dr. Geoffrey Mboya visited Makerere University in Aug 2022 and gave some lectures about graded rings.
Dr. Dominic Bunnett visited Makerere University for a period of 2 months: June - July 2022. During his stay, he taught Algebraic Geometry to graduate students.
A group photo of the participants of the algebraic geometry workshop at Chicheley Hall.
Some members of the EAALG participated in the algebraic geometry workshop which took place in the period 28th Feb - 3rd Mar 2022 at Chicheley Hall, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. These include:
Mahadi Ddamulira (Mak)
Brian Makonzi (Mak)
Geoffrey Mboya (University of Oxford )
Caroline Namanya (Mak)
David Ssevviiri (Mak)
They all had the opportunity to present about their research to the rest of the participants.
This was courtesy of the Abram Gannibal project: https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/agp/visitor.html