Title: Women Mathematician in an Advancing world. All you need to know
Location: National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Dates: 25-26 September 2025
Summery: The event was a two day workshop co-organised by CWM Ambassador for Zimbabwe (Dr Chipo Zidana)
and women in Mathematics at the National university of Science and Technology (NUST). The workshop run under the theme ‘Women Mathematican in a Technologically Advancing World. All you need to know’. The workshop gave a chance to young women mathematicians to get an exposure to a mixture of events including networking, mentorship, and skill development from established mathematicians from
business, industry, government, and academia in Zimbabwe and Africa. It consisted of mentorship and motivation sessions from other women mathematicians from different African countries including Zimbabwe, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Botswana and Eswatini among others. Secondly, the workshop also allowed estblished Mathematicians to give lectures on technology related mathematical topics including Functional Data Alaysis and its Application to different fields like Disease modelling and time series and The importance of mathematical foundation in Data Science and Machine/Deep Learning. There were also hands on session on how mathematicians can develop their skills in low resources economies using open source resources like R, Excel and Python on Google collabo. More importantly was the networking session
which saw participants asking questions and getting to know platforms and resourse they can use to develop themseleves to keep pace with the advancing skills in technology and mathematics.
Organisers: Chipo Zidana and Martina Mthombeni
Number of attendees: 40 (physical and online)
List of Countries (or States) represented: Zimbabwe (Bulawayo, Midlands, Masvingo, Harare, Chinhoyi, Manicaland, Lupane), Botswana, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, France, USA, Eswatini
The workshop also witnessed the launch of the Zimbabwe Women in Mathematics chapter through their current coordinators Mrs Martina Mthombeni, Chipo Mandave, Dr Chipo Zidana and Dr Precious Mdlomngwa. Mrs Mthombeni explained the vision and direction of Zimbabwe Women in Mathematics as a part of both AWMA and CWM.
