AWMA
AIMS South Africa
Cape Town
South Africa
See also https://aims.ac.za/workshops/2026-women-in-sage-workshop/
Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScV3JT_Xbd6Oo0gFPP-KhzptuJg4Bo6wjNEuNVzevVn9B9xEw/viewform
The “Women in SAGE-South Africa” workshop is part of a long tradition of conferences (https://wiki.sagemath.org/Workshops). SageMath is free mathematics software developed by the research community, students, and research engineers. It relies heavily on voluntary contributions as well as on the one-off funding of research projects. We already organized WIS-Africa days in several countries (Senegal 2021, Nigeria, 2022 Uganda 2023, Burundi 2024 and Tunisia 2025). All have been successful (see for example http://africanwomeninmath.org/activities/conference). Not only, the participants improved their programming skills, contributed to the software, but they also created research collaborations and gained confidence in their own skills. We believe that Women in Sage days organized in diverse countries of Africa with the support of AWMA is an opportunity for the whole community.
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)
• Bernadette Faye (Université de Bambey, Senegal)
• Olivia Nabawanda (Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda)
3. Project leaders and programme
- Ini Adinya (University of Ibadan, Nigeria): Financial Mathematics.
- Bernadette Faye (Université Alioune Diop de Bambey, Senegal): Cryptography.
- Valérie Garès (Université de Rennes, France): Statistics.
- Olivia Nabawanda (Mbara University, Uganda): Combinatorics.
- Sarah Nakato (Kabale University, Uganda): Algebra.
- Georgina Rakotonirainy (University of Cape Town, South Africa): Operations research.
- Lola Thompson, (Utrecht University, The Netherlands): Number Theory.
Our event is a collaborative conference addressed to young African researchers and graduate students. Particularly, but not exclusively, to young female researchers. There will be 6 research projects. All the main project leaders have confirmed their participation. The program will also include discussions on gender balance and women in mathematics.
Tentative schedule:
- 2 months before the conference: online event of introduction to Sage and opening of a workshop chat via the Zulip platform to encourage the contact between the participants and the group leaders before the in-person part of the workshop.
- During the workshop (5-9 October 2026): working in groups from Monday to Thursday and some talks and panels on Women in Mathematics presenting AWMA, CWM, CIMPA opportunities... On Friday participants will present projects that will have been given to them during the week.
More explicitly:
Monday
9:00 welcome, information, introduction of the organisers and group leaders.
9:30 Project’s description
10:30 break
11:00 open/install SAGE
13:00 lunch
14:30 Working in groups time
16:00 break
16:30 Talk Why to organise "Women in …" events?
19:00 dinner
Tuesday
9:00 Working in groups time
10:30 break
11:00 Working in groups time
13:00 lunch
14:30 Working in groups time
16:00 break
16:30 Working in groups time
19:00 dinner
Wednesday
9:00 Working in groups time
10:30 break
11:00 Working in groups time
13:00 lunch
14:00 City Tour
Thursday
9:00 Working in groups time
10:30 break
11h:00 Talk Research opportunities in Africa and Europe
13:00 lunch
14:30 onwards Participants work on their identified projects
19:00 dinner
Friday
9:00 presentations by participants
10:30 break
11:00 presentations by participants
13:00 lunch 14:30 Closing ceremony
Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScV3JT_Xbd6Oo0gFPP-KhzptuJg4Bo6wjNEuNVzevVn9B9xEw/viewform
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