AIMS Cameroon’s Climate Stream students last week received lectures during a Workshop facilitated by visiting South Africa-based Teaching Assistant Rockefeller on deep learning techniques for Climate-related data. “Data-driven discovery is currently revolutionizing how we model, predict, and control complex systems like the climate around us. Increasingly, researchers are turning to data-driven approaches for a diverse
Master Trainers are actors in the Teacher Training Program (TTP) run by AIMS Cameroon in partnership with Mastercard Foundation and the Government of Cameroon. The pedagogic team of Master Trainers mobilized for AIMS TTP trainings comprises of 35 Higher Teacher Training College (HTTC) Mathematics lecturers, 50 pedagogic inspectors of Mathematics and four experienced Mathematics teachers.
The global COVID-19 pandemic that emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019 was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the WHO Director-General in late January 2020 and drastically changed the way of living across the globe. Different levels of control measures were introduced to contain the global COVID-19 pandemic, many of which
True to form, we have resisted the glitter and glam of the Data Science profession, refusing to stop at teaching our students how to fit models and draw actionable insight, and rather go two steps further in helping them gain a solid understanding of the fundamentals at play to support a balance in their ability
25 lecturers of the Higher Technical Teachers’ Training College (ENSET) in Douala have ended a five-day training organised by AIMS TTP. The training which was held from 12th to 16th of April was the first-ever training of this type in the training of Master Trainers organised by AIMS TTP. Two women were among the 25
In a dinner time event, free of protocol yet steeped in deep AIMS Cameroon tradition, students, staff and tutors yesterday bid farewell to Prof. Martin Eichner of the University of Tübingen, Germany, who has been visiting and teaching a review course on Mathematical Modelling of Dynamical Systems. The renowned Professor, who was simply known as
AIMS Cameroon students, from 21st to the 23rd of April, joined hundreds of young people from across the South West Region of Cameroon in the third edition of the Cameroon Digital Skills Campaign organised by The Cameroon National Agency for ICTs (ANTIC) and The Change Engine, with the support of Microsoft and Microsoft 4Afrika. Holding
Early today, Prof. Georg Bader, who has been at AIMS-Cameroon for the last three weeks to teach a review course on Scientific Computing, took part in the traditional end-of-course send-off hosted by AIMS Cameroon’s Academic Director, Prof Marco Andrea Garuti. Prof. Garuti extended the gratitude of the entire Centre to Prof. Bader for braving the
Students of the 2020/2021 cohort are since the beginning of this week immersed in the fundamentals of Advanced Data Science by Prof. Ndèye Niang Keita of the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (CNAM), France. The main objective of this course by video conference is to introduce students to dealing with big and unlabeled data,
Building Pan-Africanism starts with building family. This truth has been fully enshrined in the culture of AIMS; a culture at whose center is the celebration of birthdays on campus for students and staff. While this year has seen several adjustments to pure socialising, bonding breaks have continued to occur and we have had students cut