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Podcast: Womanity - Women in Unity
Episode: Dr Karin-Therese Howell – Academic Director of Mathematical Sciences at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Description: This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Dr Karin-Therese Howell who is the Academic Director of Mathematical Sciences at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, which is Africa’s first network of centres of excellence in mathematical sciences. There are currently centres in Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal and South Africa. The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences brings together some of the most gifted students in the continent and uses the slogan, “We believe the next Einstein will be African”.
Dr. Howell narrates her journey into mathematics, in particular studies in abstract algebra and algebraic biology...