department highlights
Mat hematics and Statistics
Michel Smith, Department Chairman
The Masamu Program
The Southern Africa Mathematical Sciences Association, or
SAMSA, Masamu Program brought together mathematicians from
Africa, Canada, U.K., and the U.S., and took place from Nov. 28 to
Dec. 2, 2011, in Livingstone, Zambia. The program was organized by
Auburn University, SAMSA, and the University of Sussex.
SAMSA was established in 1981 to further the mathematical
sciences in the southern African region, including Angola, Botswana,
Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland,
Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The word “Masamu” means
“mathematics” in southern Africa.
The program has a primary goal of spurring sustainable
collaboration among advanced graduate students, early career faculty,
senior research faculty, and department heads and chairs. The program
promotes research and professional development as well as provides
participants with an online forum to XZ[