Planning for the upcoming visit to Senegal in the week of June 12-16, 2023

• Ababacar Ndao (UCAD, Senegal)
• Andreas Hoecker (CERN)

Minister of Education agreed to see us on June 15 at 15:00 GMT. Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique de Dakar (ESP) https://esp.sn/ Prof. Balma Ngom is at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technologies (UCAD) & ESP (Civil Engineering Department)

Logistics — proposed hotel, local transportation, etc

• Ababacar Ndao (UCAD, Senegal)

Two students from Senegal to spend 6 months at BNL

• Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

There will be a cohort of 5 African students and 1 post-doc coming to BNL for 6 months. The post-doc will arrive on June 18. The students will arrive on July 30, 2023. 2 of the 5 students are from Senegal —see their CV attached; they were recommended by Ababacar.

Senegalese students for MSc /PhD program in Morocco

• Yahya Tayalati (Universite Mohammed V (MA))

Forming a discussion group going forward