International, global scientific research addresses not only key questions in science but also provides successful modes for peaceful cooperation. Global research projects show what mankind is able to achieve when working together coherently towards a common goal. Science and the free dissemination of scientific knowledge facilitate the dialogue among cultures and are instrumental in fostering...
The ability to generate scientific innovation and technological knowledge and translate them into new products that are of value to society are key instruments for a society’s economic growth and development. As remarkable as these abilities are for other regions in the world, Africa’s science, innovation, education, and research infrastructure, particularly in Fundamental and Applied Physics,...
This talk will explore the status of the particle accelerator laboratories in the African continent. Firstly; the presentation will focus on the different particle accelerator laboratories available on the continent, the type of machines available in each of the facilities. Furthermore, the talk will focus on different research platforms available in each facility on the continent; and the...
I will describe my journey in a broader context of Africa's journey in astrophysics, highlighting some key points along the way. The presentation will aim to celebrate and show selected astrophysics achievements and opportunities in Africa and beyond.
The Atomic and Molecular field is a bedrock for modern science and emerging technologies owing to its connections to many disciplines of physical and biological sciences as well as important for future economic development. Specifically, the fundamental role that Atomic and Molecular physics (together with Optical physics) is playing in the ongoing revolution in the field of quantum...
Total Ionizing Dose (TID) effects tests are required not only for silicon particle sensors developed in high energy physics experiments, but also for electronic devices and elements used in commercial, automotive and space applications. These tests and studies can be performed not only in facilities explicitly built for this mission, but also in medical or biological research facilities when...
Decommissioning involves activities such as the dismantling of power plants. Amongst the various technical challenges of decommissioning is to carry out accurate radioactivity measurements of a wide area of waste types. In this paper, we aim at measuring a low-activity uranium contamination on concrete surfaces, with varying enrichment encountered levels within a basic nuclear facility. In...
Education and its contribution to science, technology, and innovation are the key points for combating poverty in the long term. Education is also a key point for empowering girls and women, which is fundamental for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Astronomy is a powerful tool to promote education and science but, in addition to that, it is also one of the...
The Young Physicists Forum (YPF) was formed in 2021 as one of the engagement groups in the African School of Fundamental and Applied Physics (ASFAP) strategy. The forum was instituted to engage rising-star researchers, and is devoted to developing research and science for the benefit of the public. The main objectives of the forum are among others, to create a diverse continent of...
Physics has a bad press: it is seen as a boring discipline ever since High School days. There is no glamour to it, just toil and pain, and for many who engaged in it, the end sight is unemployment. Could it be that physicists don't know how to communicate what their field entails to? I will be tackling the problematics of making physics relevant to society and the scientists in general. I will...
n the past couple of decades, biophysics not only contributed to great advances in solving important and fundamental questions in biology, but it has also shown to be a notable source of innovation. In fact, biophysics is a fundamental enabling science in medicine, agribusiness, industrial biotechnology and even sustainable energy. Despite the important role it must play in the development of...
Since its discovery, Quantum Mechanics has been used to describe the behaviour of matter in the bulk, e.g. aggregates of atoms in the form of solids, liquids and gases. Technological advances in the past decades have now provided the possibility of manipulating single atoms, ions and photons. This will bring us to a new era which will most likely be dominated by quantum technologies. In this...
I will talk about frontier research in physics of the solid-Earth in Africa with emphasis on physics of natural hazards such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. I will also cover important milestones in the development of the ICTP partnership and community in this specific field in which fundamental physics has direct implications on the society and its resilience.
Highly sensitive malaria diagnosis methods that are satisfactory for point-of-care testing in high burden areas are essential for productive treatment of the disease. Microscopists often examine blood smears to diagnose disease and compute parasitemia. Hence, the need for highly trained experts to interpret the data. In this paper, machine learning algorithms for the detection of malaria...
The acceleration of socio-economic development is intrinsically linked to the level of scientific development. While the existing scientific interventions within Africa played a transformative role in the enhancement of human capital development, adequate investment in research and development is required to make further significant strides going forward. Unlocking Africa’s potential requires...
Africa is facing a major challenge today, which is access to 100 % energy for the entire continent within ten years. This is a real challenge for researchers and actors working in the field of energy and renewable energy in particular. Indeed, the challenge is less the continent's universal access to energy but rather universal and sustainable access to protect and conserve natural resources...
Oluwole Daniel Makinde
Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X2, Saldanha 7395, South Africa
Education and capacity development in the fields of fluid and plasma physics are extremely vital to technological advancement of any nation in generally and Africa in particular. Study of fluid and plasma enable prediction of space weather, medical treatments, and even...
Light sources proved to be super-efficient in a wide range of applications such as physics, chemistry, biology, geology, biomedicine, agriculture, environment, materials science, cultural heritage and archeology. Therefore, their scientific and societal impact on education, science and technology development, besides capacity building, cannot be doubted. During the last two decades, a huge...
Africa has abundant materials that have not been fully utilized to make a significant impact on the development of the continent. Given that Condensed Matter and Materials Physics deals with properties of matter at ordinary chemical and thermal energy scales, it has the largest number of direct practical applications. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics has played a key role in the...
The African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications (ASP) is a biennial school in Africa. It is based on the observation that fundamental physics provides excellent motivation for students of science. The aim of the school is to build capacity to harvest, interpret, and exploit the results of current and future physics experiments and to increase proficiency in related applications. The...
By September 30, 2019, South Africa was among four African countries that have submitted proposals to the International Organizing Committee(IOC) of the African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications (ASP) to host ASP2022. After reviewing all the proposals, the IOC in December of 2019 unanimously selected the bid from South Africa with the main aim of boosting capacity in smaller...
Panelists:
- Dr. Raissa Malu
Directrice - Investing In People (IIP) ASBL
Member of the Democratic Republic of Congo Presidential Panel to the African Union - Prof. Oumar Ka
Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Sénégal
Founding member and current President of the Senegalese Physical Society
Co-Vice President of the West African Physical Society - Dr. Melissa...
African development depends on its array of technological advancement and human-capital resources. Nuclear physics has proven to be part of the essential area that has contributed to the ongoing industrialization from the inception of Manhattan project. Meanwhile, African countries are still in the crawling stage despite the abundance of intellectual capacities and abundance resources. The...
In this this talk, I will give an overview of the particle physics community in Africa with a focus on some research groups actively involved in the LHC experiments.
It will also highlight the recent activities of the working group dedicated to this particle physics through ASFAP strategy whose aim is to provide a shared roadmap for the field. Finally, I will briefly discuss the impact of...
As the amount of data collected from systems in operation increases, the need to effectively analyse this data to gain knowledge about the state of the system increases alike. Leveraging data-driven methods for this analysis allows us to process massive amounts of data more efficiently, as well as gain insights about our systems which we may otherwise have overlooked or not known of their...
Laser research remains a highly topical field, despite being more than half a century old. The history of laser research in Africa is nearly as long as the history of the laser itself, with research spanning the North and the South, from physics to biology. Lasers are now ubiquitous tools in most university laboratories, where world class research is done in a variety of fields. In this talk...
Title: Solar-powered Radiotherapy 4.0 – chance for Radio-Oncology in Africa
Author: Holger Wirtz, email: wirtz@strahlentherapie-singen.de; Phone: +49-7731-79768-17
Affiliation: Lake Constance Radiation Oncology Center, Singen Friedrichshafen
Introduction:
WHO estimate that 14 million people around the world are diagnosed with cancer each year and half of them live in developing...
Recent studies into the nature of dark matter and dark energy have resulted in a number of dark-fluid cosmological models. Integrability conditions arising from general irrotational fluid-flow considerations of a universe dominated by one such dark fluid will be investigated under special assumptions on the nature of the spacetime shear. Special emphasis will be placed on linearized...
Uta Bilow, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Kenneth Cecire, University of Notre Dame, USA
International Masterclasses (IMC) enable high school students and teachers to work with particle physicists to analyze authentic data from contemporary experiments and experience being “physicists for a day”. The IMC program has a worldwide reach, including several universities and research...
Unizulu Science Centre (USC) in Richards Bay, South Africa, has been running face to face matric workshops for 25 years, presenting practicals and sharpening skills for over 200 000 matric science students. The 2020 lockdown presented a dilemma: matrics needed assistance more than ever, but
schools were closed and large gatherings impossible. Many SC’s around the world went online, making...
Euclid is the M2 mission of ESA's Cosmic Vision program dedicated to the study of the dark universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy, with launch scheduled for 2022. Euclid will observe 15,000 square degrees of extragalactic sky in the visible band with resolution of 0.1arcsec (VIS), in IR photometry for the Y, J, H bands and in slitless spectroscopy between 1 and 2 microns (NISP). Euclid will be...
In this presentation, I will talk about some laser-assisted. processes in high energy physics. Through this theoretical study, we will show that the physical properties of charged particles change when they are subjected to an intense electromagnetic field.
This talk presents the summary of the ASFAP working meeting on Monday, March 7, at 16:30 about societal engagements, https://indico.cern.ch/event/1060503/timetable/?view=standard#day-2022-03-07.
This talk presents the summary of the ASFAP working meeting on Tuesday, March 8, at 16:30 about light sources and their applications, https://indico.cern.ch/event/1060503/timetable/?view=standard#day-2022-03-08.
This talk presents the summary of the ASFAP working meeting on Thursday, March 10, at 16:00 about particles and related fields, https://indico.cern.ch/event/1060503/timetable/?view=standard#day-2022-03-10.
The Forum on International Physics (FIP) is a voluntary association of the American Physical Society (APS) members, who are interested in advancing the knowledge of physics and its diffusion by fostering cooperation and communication among physicists of all countries. The FIP organizes focused sessions at APS meetings and the PHYSICS MATTERS monthly colloquia series as a “Physics for...
The world faces many challenges, articulated in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. African faces these challenges too and has in addition its own versions of them, as well as others. Consider also that we also need not only applied research to address these challenges, but also curiosity driven fundamental research. This advances knowledge and has longer timescales. It prepares humanity to...
We studied the COVID-19 pandemic evolution in ten African Countries, namely Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Togo, and Zambia. For each country considered, we modeled simultaneously the data of the active, recovered and death cases. In this study, we used a year of data since the first cases were reported. We estimated the time-dependent basic...
IEEE is the world’s largest professional association with more than 400'000 engineers and physicists worldwide. It contains 46 societies, with the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) being one of them, with about 3'000 members. Since several years NPSS organizes instrumentation schools in the areas of instrumentation for particle physics and medical imaging (PET). The schools were...
More than 60 years after independence, almost all African countries are still trying to achieve economic development. Several action plans to achieve this goal have been adopted and all of them stressed the need to put science and technology in the service of development by reinforcing the autonomous capacity of our countries in this field. From the Monrovia Strategy in 1979, the Lagos Plan...
