Bizuneh Minda Demissie successfully defends his PhD at Addis Ababa University

Bizuneh Minda Demissie, a staff member of the Department of Mathematics, Addis Ababa University, defended his PhD dissertation titled “New Contributions to Hardy-type Inequalities and Boundary-Domain Integral Equations” on June 6, 2025. Bizuneh was a Sandwich PhD student at Karlstad University with support from the International Science Programme (ISP), and his dissertation work was supervised by Tsegaye G. Ayele, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; Sergey E. Mikhailov, Brunel University, UK; Sorina Barza, Karlstad University, Sweden; Javier Soria, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; and Lars-Erik Persson, Karlstad University, Sweden.

SAMSA Conference 2025

The Southern Africa Mathematical Sciences Association (SAMSA) 2025 Annual Conference will be hosted by Mulungushi University's Department of Mathematics and Statistics from November 25th to 28th, 2025, at the Avani Victoria Falls Resort in Livingstone, Zambia. More details are in the attached conference announcement.

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East African Mathematical Olympiad

On June 2 the 3rd edition of the East African Mathematical Olympiad took place. 10 countries participated in the competition: Ethiopia, South Sudan, Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia and Bhutan as special guest. The competition took place online but the University of Rwanda in Kigali acted as main coordination hub. The overall winner is Paul Angelo, from Kabianga School in Kenya. Congratulation, Paul!

The Kenyan team busy working on the problems.