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A synchrotron light source for Africa, by Africa, in Africa
Author: Ed Mitchell,
Affiliation: The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, FranceThe science strategies of many Global North countries have included a synchrotron light source on their roadmaps. This has been the case for many decades now with the resulting large-scale research infrastructures acting as hubs...
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Advanced Energy Materials research is focussed on the design, fabrication, characterisation and theoretical understanding of materials that have use in energy generation, storage and distribution applications. An energy revolution is currently underway as governments worldwide seek to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and transition to a low carbon energy supply. Achieving this will require...
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In Order to popularize physics among all Africans and spread love of physical sciences within all walks of life. I propose to celebrate an African Day For Physics within which all enthusiasts can campaign for the betterment of African life through physics. Also this will be a day to celebrate all physics achievements accomplished by researchers, educators and students within a year which...
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Graphene, discovered in 2004, is considered as the wonder nanomaterial with astonishing properties which deeply marked the condensed matter and Materials Physics. This layer of one atom thick has revolutionized the nanotechnology and stimulated a race in the global market to dominate the emerging high-tech applications based on this material and its derivatives. In the context of this... -
The idea of the African VLBI Network (AVN) is an excellent one especially if Africa is to become a serious player in the global VLBI network but as experience with the conversion of the Ghana 32m telescope has shown, big dish astronomy can be an expensive both to build and to maintain. Nevertheless, radio astronomy can be done at grassroots with small, cheaper instruments/telescopes. These...
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Glasgow University ▪ Chair of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering ▪ G12 8LT Glasgow
AFRICAN STRATEGY FOR FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED PHYSICS
Prof. Dr. Thomas Franke
School of Engineering
Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Oakfield Avenue
G12 8LT Glasgow
Phone +44 (0)141-330-2466
Thomas.Franke@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/engineering/Dr. Raymond...
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The nanoribbons of two dimensional materials such as graphene has been verified theoretically and experimentally to be a good source of acoustoelectric current. This has specific applications in acoustic wave filter as tunable gate-controlled quantum information devices and phonon spectrometers as well as in the development of sound batteries. This has prompted the necessity to investigate...
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There are signals from the Universe that one can detect by performing experiments which are not that large, not so costly and not even located in space or at large observatories on Earth. Some of these signals can address the following questions: How did the Universe begin? How did it come to existence? What is hidden to our eyes and observatory facilities? Such experiments in astro-particle...
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Dr Kayode DADA (Centre for Energy Research and Development)
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LOI on Computational Methods for Correlated Quantum Systems in Condensed Matter
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Most of today’s physics experiments are based on sensors converting physical parameters into electronic signals, which are then translated into binary numbers and read out by computers.
Today's microprocessors are used in almost all everyday devices and are therefore mass produced. This pushes prices to very low levels while their performance constantly increases. Microprocessors are...
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The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is an array of 5 Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), located near Windhoek, Namibia, sensitive to very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays with energies above ~100 GeV. It is the World’s largest and most sensitive ground-based gamma-ray telescope system and scientifically hugely successful in many different fields of high-energy...
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The Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy project (DARA www.dara-project.org) and has provided a basic training in radio astronomy to over 300 young graduates across the eight African countries that partner South Africa in hosting the mid-frequency SKA. Postgraduate training has also been provided to 26 MSc and 9 PhD African students, mostly at UK universities. The training provided...
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Quantum Biology is a new emerging research field with enormous potential for science and technology. During the past few years, large research efforts into Quantum Biology have been launched in various parts of the world [1-10]. It is important that Africa actively contributes to the development of Quantum Biology in order to tap into the scientific and technological developments.
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Rakia Dahsa1, Yassine Ben Belgacem1, Bilel Hosni1, 2, Youssef Dabaki1, Chokri Khaldi1, Omar ElKedim2, Nouredine Fenineche3, Jilani Lamloumi1
Abstract. In this study, the hydrogen storage property of the La1.5Mg0.5Ni7 compound as a negative electrode in Ni-MH batteries was investigated. This compound was elaborated by ball milling in a mechanical grinder for 30 hours at a ball/powder weight...
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Call: Africa strategy for fundamental and Applied Physics
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LOI: For Energy WG
Prof. Diouma KOBORCHALLENGES
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The energy situation, which is very worrying in Africa, is evidenced by the absence, in most countries, of energy policies based on energy development master plans in the short, medium and long term. This situation is reflected, among other things, by a lack of integration of energy activities into development plans and a lack of awareness... -
Following the recommendation of a virtual United Nations Dialogue held during UNGA75, this letter of intent suggests that ASFAP incorporates the use of physics in the education of very young children aged between 4 and 10, particularly those in underprivileged communities into its strategy.
WHY VERY YOUNG CHILDREN?
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There are three reasons:
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Markus Boettcher
Gamma-ray astronomy is one of the three pillars of the South African multi-wavelength strategy, together with radio and optical astronomy. Southern Africa hosts some of the world’s leading multi-wavelength facilities, in particular MeerKAT in the Karoo area of South Africa, which will expand into the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) mid-frequency array over the next decade, the Southern African...
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A short overview of the glass research and glass industry in Africa will be presented.
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Also, short future perspective is added to transfer and localization of technology and lessons learned from the Corona pandemic.
The number of published scientific research articles in year 1980- 2021 has been illustrated by using the search on Scopus [1] was about 14000. While, glass industry focused... -
A short overview of the glass research and glass industry in Africa will be presented.
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Also, short future perspective is added to transfer and localization of technology and lessons learned from the Corona pandemic.
The number of published scientific research articles in year 1980- 2021 has been illustrated by using the search on Scopus [1] was about 14000. While, glass industry focused... -
The Higgs portal-vector dark matter interpretation of the spin-independent dark-matter nucleon elastic scattering cross section, using the invisible Higgs decay width measured at the LHC, is presented. The Effective Field Theory approach and ultraviolet complete models have been used and details description are discussed. Hence, the inclusion of these theoretical scenarios in LHC public...
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Ulrich Goerlach (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
We propose to create an educational centre for the training of young African students, postdocs and junior faculty members in instrumentation for fundamental and applied experimental physics. The educational programme foreseen would be equivalent to a Master curriculum at a university. Many African universities do not have the necessary number of experimental facilities and instruments at...
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The Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) division at iThemba LABS conducts materials research for applications in information technology, electronics, air pollution, and energy. To this end, we make use of the various facilities at the Tandetron and Tandem Laboratories for synthesis, modification, and analysis of thin films and nanostructured materials. The analyzed materials range from semiconductors and...
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The large increase of pileup is one of the main experimental challenges for the High Luminosity-Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) physics program. HL-LHC is expected to start in 2027 and to provide an integrated luminosity of 3000fb-1 in ten years, a factor 10 more than what will be collected by 2023. A powerful new way to address this challenge is to exploit the time spread of the interactions...
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Enhance creativity and problem solving by learning to make mistakes
Risk taking and creative expressions without boundaries are a part of essential youth development. Who has not fallen from a tree or burnt their hands on a stove. Africa the youngest continent in the world (almost 60% are under the age of 25). Advancement of science largely relies on youth (enthousiasm, intrinsic curiosity...
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This letter of intent (LoI) is to show my strong interest for the African synchrotron lightsource; and also, to demonstrate how having it set up in Africa would be very beneficial to the continent as a whole. Research infrastructures are facilities used by the scientific community to carry out exploratory research in different fields using diversified scientific instruments to address...
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Karen Jacqueline Cloete (PhD), Senior Researcher
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UNESCO-UNISA Africa Chair in Nanosciences & Nanotechnology Laboratories, College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa, Muckleneuk Ridge, PO Box 392, Pretoria, 0003, South Africa
Nanosciences African Network (NANOAFNET), iThemba LABS-National Research Foundation, PO Box 722, Somerset West 7129, Western Cape Province, South... -
Dr Daouda Traore
Tropical Diseases and Antibiotic Resistant Microorganisms constitute a significant health, social and economic burden to the African continent. Structural Biology is an important tool used to understand the molecular basis of these diseases. In fact, knowledge of the molecular structures guides the rational design of new drugs and the optimisation of existing medicine. However, due limited...
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There is need to train, and to improve the quality of trainings for our young scientists in Materials Research for the gain of international career. Currently, unemployment rate of university graduates from material science in Africa, especially in Kenya, is medium to high.This can be linked to: lack of innovations:- most graduates nearly add no value to the companies they are employed in,...
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My contribution will be on several points:
- Physics education
There are several challenges surrounding the teaching of Physics, the first being the lack of infrastructure - needed to put students and staff in good working conditions. Governments need to invest massively in education.
In order to draw a good vision, there is need to establish a discussion/collaboration with all...
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Abstract: Embracing nuclear photonics enabled by accelerators can play a key role in accelerating capacity building in both nuclear (basic and applied) and laser physics in Africa that would likely lead to a revision of African Union’s Agenda 2063 of the strategic framework for sustainable development and economic growth based on nuclear science and technology.
Introduction
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In this letter of Interest, we would like to address the opportunity for North African countries to unite in contributing to build and lead a series of local observatories and/or one large facility. In doing so, they will have to involve in many aspects of science and society such as building trades, geology, technology and in-strumentation, physics education and research. This will give the...
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The LOI is in attached file.
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Opportunities and challenges in consolidating the Moroccan Digital Research Infrastructure for Multi-Disciplinary Science and Big Data Particle Physics Analysis
Farida Fassi, Redouane Merrouch, Bouchra Rahim
Mohammed V University in Rabat, Faculty of Science. Morocco
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST), Rabat, MoroccoAbstract:
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Letter of Interest Diouma KOBOR
What Orientation for Energy Research and Education for Africa: Contribution of AU
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The fundamental problem of education and Research in Africa, particularly in strategic domains, is that there is no independent fund, funded by African countries to support strategic areas to be defined in collaboration with researchers and stake-holders.
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Mounia Laassiri (Mohammed V University)
LOI is in the attached file.
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Topic of interest
- Implementation of a postgraduate module for physics fellows that integrate quantum computing, quantum optics, quantum biology, data science, machine learning and intellectual property.
- Implementation of a regional human capital mobility in these domains.
- Promoting the establishment of intensive undergraduate coding learning communities.*Potential...
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This letter of interest is aimed at promoting research in plasmonic quantum biosensing. It is also aimed at encouraging more funding to this field of research. Plasmonic nanosensors have become a powerful tool for biosensing applications [1,2]. This is because they are able to overcome the limitations of conventional optical sensors in terms of sensitivity, flexibility and photostability [3]....
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Rethinking experimental physics in Africa
More than in other fields of STEM, advancement in experimental physics has relied past decades on technological or material discoveries such as LASERs, the Large Hydron Collider quantum teleportation or graphene. These advancements have cost huge amounts of money and time to accomplish. Many of those experiments necessitate sophisticated lab...
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Introduction
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According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, an “advocate” is a person who works for a cause or group. It follows from this definition that a science advocate is a person who works for a scientific cause. This cause can be research funding and policies, climate change, low enrolment in basic sciences, lack of awareness about the role of science in development, among others. The... -
Mohamed Zaazoua (Universite Mohammed V (MA))
Despite dark matter abundance, its nature remains elusive. Many searches of dark matter particles are carried out using different technologies either via direct detection, indirect de- tection, or collider searches. In this work, the invisible Higgs sector was investigated, where Higgs bosons are produced via the vector boson fusion (VBF) process and subsequently decay into invisible...
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Badr-Eddine Ngair (Universite Mohammed V (MA))
A search for new resonances that decay into top-quark pairs is performed using data collected from proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events consistent with top-quark pair production are selected by requiring a single isolated charged lepton, missing transverse momentum and jet activity compatible with a hadronic...
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Searching for subtle signs of new physics via novel top quark measurements
This letter describes a programme of experimental particle physics research undertaken by the University of Cape Town and IFIC Valencia ATLAS groups that commenced in 2020. The programme is concerned with the electroweak couplings of the top quark as they pertain to the search for new physics and comprises analyses...
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Short LoI summarising the case for the African Light Source
Prof SH Connell
University of Johannesburg
February 2022Africa faces significant challenges. These include its high disease burden, the exploration and beneficiation of its mineral wealth, development of innovation pipelines for competitive industry towards established African wealth, the need to urgently address all 17 of...
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Research in any Science needs nowadays strong computing services to extract results and make discoveries.
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What we define as computing services might rank from the underlying structure, namely networks, computers, storage, to the applications and the software but as well new techniques such as Artificial Intelligence to extract the expected results.
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International cooperation forms the common denominator of the today’s culture of scientific activities. However, in many scientific disciplines and especially in fundamental and applied physics the cooperation among African countries and between them and the rest of the world is not well developed. This is especially the case for sub-Saharan Africa, which is one of the most rapidly developing...
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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is an earth-size virtual telescope that comprises of several telescopes that observe together at mm to sub-mm wavelengths in the mode of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). The EHT is used to image supermassive black holes (SMBH) such as Sagittarius A* and was recently used to image M87, the famous “first image of a black hole” in 2017 which was...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an essential tool for a good decision making model and has been used in a wide variety of scientific disciplines from bioinformatics to aeronautical engineering to image processing. Computational intelligence has also found its way to detector physics, especially for high-energy physics experiments, and has been used to determine detector performances, as well...
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the details of my letter is in the attachment.
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THE LOFAR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP RADIO ARRAY “GLORAY”
George Miley, Sterrewacht, Leiden University,The NetherlandsThis is a summary of a proposal to be submitted to ASTRON and the Board of the International LOFAR Telescope Board later in 2022 to carry out a design study for a project that would transform LOFAR into a multidisciplinary facility that would span 3 continents. Countries in North...
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This LoI supports the establishment of a Virtual University for a broad scope of disciplines related to the beneficiation of nuclear technology.
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It has been proposed by AFCONE to the AU and the Pan African University, as a new department at the PAU, initiated as a virtual University. Such a process is also forseen by the AFRA-NEST founding documents. AFRA-NEST has facilitated the... -
Rob Adam
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We develop in the paper the importance for Africa to participate in the next quantum revolution and propose ways to meet this challenge. We illustrate the topics with the example of OneQuantum Africa initiative that is gathering researchers and students from all Africa and promoting quantum research, quantum computing and quantum technologies through education and sharing of experience. We...
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Within the framework of the UNESCO-UNISA iTLABS/NRF Africa Chair in Nanosciences & Nanotechnology (U2ACN2), a trilateral partnership between the UNESCO, the University of South Africa (UNISA),and iThemba LABS, a national facility of the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) as well as the Nanosciences African Network (NANOAFNET), an African Union Network of Excellence, I wish to add...
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The intention of this letter is to engage with the organizers of the African Strategy for Fundamental and Applied Physics (ASFAP) and create awareness of the research facilities at the Separated Sector Cyclotron (SSC) Laboratory as well as its training and research mandates. These are elaborated on in the recently developed Long Range Plan which plays a prominent role in the future strategy of...
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Using Astronomy for Development in Africa
Background:
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In 2011 the International Astronomical Union (IAU), through a joint partnership with the South African National Research Foundation, and with strong support from the South African Department of Science and Innovation, established the global Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD), hosted at the South African Astronomical... -
James Lech (World Health Organization - International EMF Project & Optical)
First 8 Pages are presented and published National Report.
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Last 2 pages is the new International Advisory Committee formed for the National Report, South Africa. The report and new policies are in direct alignment with the objectives of the strategies listed in this call. -
“African Light Source: recognition and demand”
Dr. Gihan Kamel
SESAME Light Source
February 28, 2022The impact of advanced light sources on science and society in the developing world on addressing national and global concerns cannot be underestimated. Through collective brainpower and constructive partnerships and collaborations, establishment of light sources has begun in...
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