Climate Science students of AIMS Cameroon have entered the last block of courses before they take on their research projects. Arriving early this week, Climatic Data Analyst and AIMS Ghana Alumnus Francis Torgbor introduced the students to Statistical Climatology and its use in areas such as agriculture, health, industry, education. Torgbor explained that many shocks
Dr. Jean-Rassaire Fouefack, AIMS-Cameroon alumnus of the 2014-2015 batch, has successfully earned a joint PhD in Biomedical Engineering and Signal processing from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and IMT Atlantque (France); a milestone achieved in 3 years. The topic of his thesis was “Towards a Framework for multiclass Statistical Modelling of Shape, Intensity
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