Schedule
Preliminary Schedule
For talk abstracts, please see the sub menu “Abstracts”
Time |
Activity |
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| 20:00 – 22:00 | Welcome Dinner at Galaxy Hotel (We will try to make arrangements for those who arrive later on Saturday) |
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Time |
Activity |
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| 08:15 | Bus leaves Galaxy Hotel for AIMS Rwanda Center |
| 08:45 – 09:00 | Welcome |
| 09:00 – 09:50 | Jonathan Esole, “Elliptic Fibrations in Geometry and Physics” |
| 09:50 – 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 – 11:20 | Wilfred Ndifon, “A Productive Approach to Mathematical Biology” |
| 11:20 – 12:10 | Kareljan Schoutens, “Quantum Computation and Quantum Control” |
| 12:10 – 02:30 | Lunch Break |
| 02:30 – 03:20 | Balazs Szendroi, “Algebraic Geometry: Old and New” |
| 03:20 – 04:10 | Neil Turok, “Fun With Path Integrals” – POWERPOINT |
| 16:10 – 16:50 | Coffee |
| 16:50 – 17:40 | Mama Foupouagnigni, “The Future of Science from an Education Perspective” |
| 17:40 – 18:30 | Maria Salatino, “Instrumentation for Cosmic Microwave Background Telescopes” |
| 18:30 – 20:00 | Dinner |
| 20:30 | Bus leaves AIMS for Galaxy Hotel |
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Time |
Activity |
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| 08:30 | Bus leaves from Galaxy Hotel to AIMS |
| 09:00 – 09:50 | Kavlian Moodley, “Dark energy with HIRAX 21cm intensity mapping” |
| 09:50 – 10:30 | Coffee |
| 10:30 – 11:20 | Samaya Nissanke, “A New Perspective on the Universe in the Era of Multi-messenger Astronomy” |
| 11:20 – 12:10 | Moustapha Fall, “The Queen and Quantum Mechanics” |
| 12:10 – 14:30 | Lunch Break |
| 14:30 – 15:20 | Nick Kaiser, “Gravitational Redshifts and Galaxy Clustering; A New Cosmological Test” |
| 15:20 – 16:10 | Steven Gratton, “Future of Thought” |
| 16:10 – 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 | Bus Tour Departs |
| 19:00 – 21:00 | Banquet (at restaurant in central Kigali) |
| 21:00 | Buses return from banquet to Galaxy Hotel |
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Time |
Activity |
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| 09:15 – 09:45 | Bus from Galaxy Hotel to University of Rwanda |
| 10:00 – 11:45 | Public Lecture at the University of Rwanda Neil Turok, “Universe” |
| 11:45 | Bus leaves University of Rwanda for AIMS |
| 12:15 – 13:45 | Lunch break |
| 13:45 – 14:35 | Justin Jonas, “The MeerKAT radio telescope and its science programme” – POWERPOINT |
| 14:35 – 15:25 | Prince Osei, “On Generalised Kitaev lattice models for quantum groups” |
| 15:25 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 – 16:50 | Latham Boyle “Penrose tilings and physics: new connections and open problems” – POWERPOINT |
| 16:50 – 17:40 | Alan Beardon, “The importance of diversity in mathematical research” |
| 17:40 – 18:40 | Panel and Open Discussion on “The Future of Science and Africa.” Panelists: Alan Beardon, Jonathan Esole (moderator), Moustapha Fall, Bernadette Faye, Kavilan Moodley and Neil Turok |
| 18:40 – 20:00 | Dinner at AIMS |
| 20:00 | Bus from AIMS to Galaxy Hotel |
Our Sponsors and Partners
This conference has been made possible thanks to generous support of David Coulson and Margaret Holen; Yang Wu and Yong Zhu; Perimeter Institute; Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi); Kavli Institute for Cosmology and Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge; African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS); International Center of Theoretical Physics (UNESCO, IAEA); Cambridge in America