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The ASP has evolved to be much more than a school. It is a program of actions with directed ethos toward physics as an engine for development in Africa.

ASP2024

The 8th African School of Fundamental and Applied Physics, ASP2024 is planned for July 7-21, 2024, at Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco. We are now accepting student applications until January 15, 2024.

To apply, go here 

ACP2023

The 3rd African Conference of Fundamental and Applied Physics, ACP2023, will be a hybrid event, organized jointly by Nelson Mandela University at George Campus, in George, South Africa, on September 25-29, 2023

ASP2022

Our 7th school, ASP2022, took place at Nelson Mandela University in Gqberha, South Africa, on November 28 to December 9, 2022.

ACP2021

Our 2nd conference, ACP2021, took place on March 7-11, 2022, as a virtual. There were 649 registered participants, 563 of whom were from institutes in 33 African countries.

ASP2021

The 6th edition of our school planned in 2020 in Morocco, took place on July 19-30, 2021, as an online event.

Online Lectures

Library of Recorded Lectures

The online lecture series is a weekly seminar or colloquium to supplement the ASP term schools. It is organized continuously even when there is no term school. Experts are invited or volunteer to lecture on any topics in the areas of concentration of ASP students and alumni.
Information and recordings available (here)

ASP Study of COVID-19 Data from African Countries

We studied the COVID-19 pandemic evolution in selected African countries. For each country considered, we modeled simultaneously the data of the active, recovered and death cases. In this study, we used a year of data since the first cases were reported. We estimated the time-dependent basic reproduction numbers, R0, and the fractions of infected but unaffected populations, to offer insights into containment and vaccine strategies in African countries. We found that R0≤4 at the start of the pandemic but has since fallen to R0∼1. The unaffected fractions of the populations studied vary between 1−10% of the recovered cases.

The ASP has evolved to be much more than a school. It is a program of actions with directed ethos toward physics as an engine for development in Africa.

ASP 2014, Third Edition, Dakar

Senegal, 3-23 August 2014

The third Biennial African School of Fundamental Physics and its Applications.

  • Bobby S. Acharya, ICTP & King College of London
  • Ketevi A. Assamagan, BNL
  • Anne E. Dabrowski, CERN
  • Christine Darve, ESS
  • Jonathan R. Ellis, CERN & King College of London
  • Fernando Ferroni, GSSI-INFN
  • Steve Muanza, CNRS-IN2P3

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June 28

ASP2024

The 8th African School of Fundamental and Applied Physics, ASP2024 is planned for July 7-21, 2024, at Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco. We are now accepting student applications until January 15, 2024. To apply, go here Local Organizing Committee (LOC) Mohamed Chabab (Chair), Farida Fassi (Chair), Yassine Hassouni, Alaaeddine Lahbas, Mohamed Gouighri, Jabiri Abdelhadi, Youssef […]

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Ketevi Assamagan

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January 25

ACP2023, 3rd African Conference on Fundamental and Applied Physics

The ACP2023 is planned on September 25-29, 2023, at Nelson Mandela University, George Campus, in George, South Africa, as in a hybrid format. Interested folks may register and submit abstracts for oral or poster presentations. Details are here https://indico.cern.ch/event/1229551/ Tweet

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Christine Darve

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January 25

Prof. Luca Serafini’s course on Particle Accelerators

Prof. Luca Serafini online lecture presented on January 17, 2023 is now accessible. Title ” Energy Recovery Linacs – a way towards the energy sustainability of particle accelerators” The materials for his course and the recording are now available at: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1231210/

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Christine Darve

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January 25

ASP mini-workshop on renewable energies & energy efficiency on February 7, 2022

Register today to attend on February 7, 2022 the mini-workshop on “Renewable energies & energy efficiency” : https://indico.cern.ch/event/1241933/ This workshop is a complement to the 7th African School of Physics, ASP2022, lectures. Four experts will speak to the issues and relevance to energy needs in Africa: Prof. Robinson Juma Musembi (University of Nairobi, Kenya) , “Towards […]

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Christine Darve

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October 16

5thAfrican Light Source Conference

Register today to attend the 5th African Light Source Conference to be held virtually on 14-18 November 2022. Tweet

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Christine Darve

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October 16

AfLS, AfPS and MOOCs at the ICRI

Pre-conference events for the 2022 joint conference of the African Light Source and the African Physical Society start on October 17, 2022 as part of the International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI), 19 -21 October, 2022. Register here. e.g. Are MOOCs and Virtual Universities Now Requisite Parts of Research Infrastructure?    Tuesday, October 18, 2022    14:00 – […]

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