AIMS-NEI
AIMS was the subject of a talk by Neil Turok after he received the TED Prize in 2008. Neil Turok's TED wish was that, within his lifetime, an African Einstein would be celebrated.
The AIMS-NextEinstein Initiative (AIMS-NEI) is a plan to create 15 more AIMS centres across Africa. These centres aim to create educational conditions and scientific resources equivalent to the more developed continents in order to fulfil Neil Turok's TED wish.
The next two centres are in Senegal and Ghana. An earlier centre based at the African University of Science and Technology (AUST) in Nigeria was known as AIMS-Abuja for a while.
AIMS-NEI is a continuation of the work of the African Mathematical Institutes Network (AMI-Net).
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