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Schedule

Preliminary Schedule

For talk abstracts, please see the sub menu “Abstracts” 

Saturday, 6 July 2019

Time
Activity
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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Sunday, 7 July 2019

Time
Activity
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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Monday, 8 July 2019

Time
Activity
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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Tuesday, 9 July 2019

Time
Activity
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