MAI in Africa

19/08/2025

DEBATT. Biståndsminister Benjamin Dousa bör återskapa och utöka stödet till forskning, särskilt i samarbete med länder i Afrika söder om Sahara. Det skapar långsiktig utveckling, skriver debattörer i en replik.

04/04/2024

Congratulations to Jennifer Chepkorir who on March 26th successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Regularization methods for solving the Cauchy problems for elliptic and degenerate elliptic equations” at Department of Mathematics, Linköping University. Jennifer has been supervised by Vladimir Kozlov together with co-supervisor Fredrik Berntsson.

Jennifer’s studies were made possible by the support from Sida - Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete and coordinated by International Science Programme.

Photos: Jennifer together with her supervisors, opponent and members of the grading committee. Photos taken by Lindha Nilsson.

18/12/2023

Congratulations to Pauline Achieng who on December 8th successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Reconstruction of solutions of Cauchy problems for elliptic equations in bounded and unbounded domains using iterative regularization methods" at Department of Mathematics, Linköping University. Pauline has been supervised by Vladimir Kozlov together with co-supervisor Fredrik Berntsson.

Pauline’s studies were made possible by the support from Sida - Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete and coordinated by International Science Programme.

Photos: Pauline together with her supervisors, opponent and members of the grading committee.

12/06/2023

More happy news! Today we congratulate Emelyne Gasana Umunoza from Department of Mathematics, University of Rwanda who successfully defended her PhD thesis with the title ‘An Edgeworth-type Expansion of the Distribution of a Likelihood-based Classifier for Single Time-point Measurements and Growth Curves’ at Department of Mathematics, Linköping University. Emelyne has been supervised by Martin Singull and Dietrich von Rosen. Great achievement for the subprogramme ‘Strengthening Research Capacity in Mathematics, Statistics and Their Applications’.

Her studies were made possible by the support of UR-Sweden Programme funded by Sida - Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete - through the International Science Programme.

Photo – Emelyne together with supervisors Dietrich von Rosen and Martin Singull.

08/06/2023

Congratulations to Stefane Saize from Department of Mathematics, Universidad Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) who successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘Contributions to reciprocal processes’ today at Department of Mathematics, Linköping University. Great achievement for the subprogramme ‘Capacity Building in Mathematics and Statistics and Its Applications’.

Stefan's studies were made possible by the support from Sida - Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete and coordinated by International Science Programme.

Photo – Stefane together with his supervisor Xiangfeng Yang.

02/06/2023

Today we continue the celebration! Congratulations to Kwalo Ilwale from University of Zambia who successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘Noncommutative Riemannian Geometry of Twisted Derivations’ at Department of Mathematics, Linköping University.

His studies were made possible by the support from Eastern Africa Universities Mathematics Programme through the International Science Programme and Sida - Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete.

Photo – Kwalombota together with his supervisor Joakim Arnlind.

02/06/2023

01/06/2023

Happy news – today Denise Uwamariya from Department of Mathematics, University of Rwanda successfully defended her PhD thesis ‘Large deviations of condition numbers and extremal eigenvalues of random matrices’ at Department of Mathematics, Linköping University. Denise has been supervised by Xiangfeng Yang together with co-supervisors Martin Singull and Dietrich von Rosen. Great achievement for the subprogramme ‘Strengthening Research Capacity in Mathematics, Statistics and Their Applications’. Huge congratulations to Dr Uwamariya, very well done!

Her studies were made possible by the support of UR-Sweden Programme funded by Sida - Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete - through the International Science Programme.

Photo – Denise together with faculty opponent Professor Filip Lindskog, Stockholm university.

22/03/2023

Martin Singull, our team leader for the subprogram ‘Applied mathematics and statistics’, UR-Sweden Programme funded by Sida - Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete through the International Science Programme, yesterday gave a seminar on ‘Supervised learning for repeated measures data’ for the Department of Mathematics, University of Rwanda.

19/01/2023

ISP’s Bengt Ove Turesson is in Rwanda 🇷🇼!

Yesterday he met with Prof Sam Yala, Centre President, Prof Blaise Tchapnda, Academic Director and Dr Isambi Sailon Mbalawata, Research and Scientific Development Manager, at AIMS Rwanda (African Institute for Mathematical Sciences’s Rwanda node) to discuss different possible cooperation, e.g. math competitions.

From left: Dr Isambi Sailon Mbalawata, Dr Paul Vaderlind Stockholm University, Prof Sam Yala, Dr Bengt Ove Turesson, Prof Blaise Tchapnda.