What is AIMS?

• Angela Tabiri (AIMS)

A broad overview of the AIMS mission with the individual perspective of Dr Angela Tabiri from AIMS-Ghana, who graduated from AIMS in 2014, earned her PhD from University of Glasgow in 2019, and is currently a AIMS - Google AI Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer at AIMS-Ghana.

Tutoring @ AIMS

• Göktug Alkan (ETH Zurich)
• Georg Anegg (ETH Zurich)
• Emilia Magnani (ETH Zurich)

Emilia Magnani and Göktug Alkan joined AIMS as tutors during/after their Master's studies at ETH Zurich. They will share their experience tutoring and help you understand how you can get involved.

Lecturing and Thesis Supervision @ AIMS

• Prasenjit Saha (University of Zurich)
• Claire David (York University (CA))

Prasenjit and Claire will give their perspectives on lecturing at AIMS and help you understand how you can be involved. Claire David lectured at AIMS-Ghana in 2019 while she was a research fellow at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, Germany. Since then, has mentored multiple AIMS alumni in their graduate applications. She is now a professor of physics at York University in Toronto, Canada. Prasenjit Saha has lectured at multiple AIMS centers and supervised thesis projects starting in 2015 and is currently a researcher at the University of Zurich is astrophysics.

Swiss Opportunities/Programs

• Raphaela Kübler
• Jasmina Saric

From co-funding opportunities, to applying to a PhD in Switzerland, we give an overview of some of the ways to bring researchers in Africa and Switzerland together. Raphaela Kübler is the Science and Technology Program Officer at the Embassy of Switzerland to South Africa and will speak about the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for Foreign Scholars. Jasmina Saric is coordinating the Swiss Leading House Region Africa mandate for bilateral research collaboration between Swiss academic and research institutions and partner institutions in the sub-Saharan Africa region. She will speak about the opportunities for funding collaborative research and innovation activities that the Leading House has made available in the funding period 2017-2020 and what may be expected for the next period.

Networking During this portion of the event, we will group academics from Switzerland (or elsewhere!) with students from AIMS based on their intellectual interests. These are indicated on the registration form so please do be sure to *register* for this event. The goal is to seed connections and begin building a stronger network between AIMS and math and science in Switzerland. BE SURE TO REGISTER!