AWMA
Hammamet
Hammamet
Tunisia
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Motivation: The conference “African Women in Mathematics: Challenging Questions” is designed to explore challenging questions in mathematics, encourage collaborative problem-solving, and provide a platform for discussions on the future of African women in mathematics. The inclusion of workshops, presentations, and panel discussions aims to engage participants actively in addressing mathematical challenges and fostering a supportive community. We are planning also to host a General Assembly of the African Women in Mathematics Association (AWMA). |
1.Objectives
bring together African mathematicians to work together, share their motivation, and discover women from different countries to different career levels, who can be considered as role models.
launch new research projects and collaborations between mathematicians from different African countries.
Create new contacts and mentoring networks for young women embarking on mathematical research.
Teach new programming skills to African women mathematicians.
And finally, contribute to the SageMath software and train new users and contributors.
2. Conference Planning and organization
Organizing and Scientific Committees:
Selma Negzaoui (Université de Monastir, Tunisia)
Marie Françoise Ouedraogo (Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkina Faso)
Sophie Dabo (Université de Lille, France)
Elisa Lorenzo Garcia (Université de Rennes 1, France; and Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
Ini Adinya (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
Olivia Nabawanda (Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda)
3. Main Lecturers and programme for the conference
Pr Moustapha Fall, AIMS Senegal
Pr Ali Baklouti, Vice-rector, Sfax University
Dr Mpfareleni Rejoice Gavi, manager for the AIMS House of Science
Pr Boutheina Ben Hassine, Gender Equality Office, University of Sousse
Halima Ouanada, We4Lead project, Tunis El Manar University
Pr Selma Negzaoui, AWMA vice-presidente North Africa
Program
African Women in Mathematics: Challenging Questions
From October 6 to 8, 2025
9 am (GMT + 1) daily
Here is the Zoom link of the conference:
https://univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/j/94211527879?pwd=Hy1ORbpDqh09NxwmrwcuAVYWRdboot.1
ID de réunion: 942 1152 7879
Code secret: 279698
Day 1 |
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9h00 - 10h00 |
Welcome reception with coffee |
10h00 - 11h30 |
Opening Ceremony
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11h30 -12h30 |
Abderrazek Karoui (Tunisian Mathematical Society) |
12h30 - 14h00 |
Lunch |
14h00 - 14h45 |
Moustapha Fall (AIMS Senegal, Senegal) (online) A Short History of the Mathematics of Vibrating Plates |
14h45 - 15h30 |
Olivia Nabawanda (Mbarara University, Uganda) Run-Sorted Permutations Avoiding Certain Patterns of Length 4 |
15h30 - 16h00 |
Coffee Break |
16h00 - 16h45 |
Zeinab Mansour (Cairo University, Egypt) On Inverse q-Sturm-Liouville Problems |
16h45 - 17h30 |
Short presentations and Posters |
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Day 2 |
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9h00 - 9h45 |
Ali Baklouti (University of Sfax, Tunisia) An operator analogue of Müntz–Szász's Theorem on nilpotent Lie group |
9h45 - 10h30 |
Fadipe-Joseph Olubunmi (University of Ilorin, Nigeria) (online) Investigating a New Class of Analytic Functions Defined by Gegenbauer and Chebyshev Polynomials |
10h30 - 11h00 |
Coffee Break |
11h00 - 11h45 |
Nahla Abdellatif (University of Tunis Elmanar, Tunisia) Mathematical analysis of a three-tiered food web model in a chemostat |
12h00 - 12h30 |
Halima Ouanada (University of Tunis Elmanar, Tunisia) |
12h35 - 14h00 |
Lunch |
14h00 - 16h00
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Panel discussion chaired by Fagueye Ndiaye Sylla (University Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal) Identifying and adressing key challeges in African mathematics and women in mathematics |
16h00 - 18h00 |
Excursion |
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Day 3 |
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9h00 - 9h45 |
Ménédore Karimumuryango (University of Burundi, Burundi) |
9h45 - 10h30 |
Mpfareleni Rejoyce Gavhi-Molefe ( AIMS South Africa, South Africa) (online) TBA |
10h30 - 11h00 |
Coffee Break |
11h00 - 11h45 |
Deborah Olufunmulayo Makinde (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria) (online) Mathematics as a Tool for Empowerment: Advancing Women and Girls in Nigeria and Across Africa |
11h45 - 12h30 |
Bouthaina Ben Hassine (University of Soussa, Tunisia) |
12h30 - 14h00 |
Lunch |
14h00 - 14h30 |
Ini Adinya (University of Ibadan, Nigeria) Advances in Mathematical Finance |
14h30 - 16h00 |
Short communications |
16h00 |
Closing Ceremony |
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