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Dear Visitors, 
It is common knowledge that in the absence of higher education, research, science and technology, national development, economic growth and the creation of a critical mass of highly competent and skilled persons will be substantially hampered, thus leading to either stagnation or retardation. It is on this basis, coupled with the dire need for a well defined higher education system in The Gambia, that the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (MoHERST) was establishment in 2007 by His Excellency, The President of the Republic of The Gambia, Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr. Yahya A.J.J Jammeh.
Since the advent of this Ministry, resources have been mobilised and appropriated, efforts redoubled and strengthened and strategies crafted and implemented to provide quality university education for all eligible and interested candidates both within and outside The Gambia. Standing in tandem with this, has been the dual pursuit of cultivating a research culture and developing and encouraging Science, Technology and Innovation in the country. |
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PRESS RELEASE BABOUCARR BAH WINS SIAM 2010 STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION Mr. Baboucarr Bah an alumnus of the University of The Gambia, and a current PHd Student at the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland is  one of the two winners of the 2010 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) award. Mr. Bah bagged the award through a paper entitled “IMPROVED RESTRICTED ISOMETRY CONSTANT BOUNDS FOR GAUSSIAN MATRICES”
The SIAM Student Paper Prize will be awarded during the course of the 2010 SIAM Annual Meeting to held from July 12th – 16th 2010 at the David L. Lawrence Convention centre (DLCC) in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, USA.
Mr. Bah’s work is in COMPRESSING SENSING, and he is a member of the Applied and Computational Mathematics Research and the Edinburgh Compressed Sensing Groups. Mr. Bah is currently the Vice President of the Edinburgh SIAM Student Chapter which is a Pan-Edinburgh Chapter with a joint Membership from the University of Edinburgh and Heriot Watt University.
Mr. Bah received his BSC degree in Mathematics and Physics from the University of The Gambia, and worked at the UTG as a Graduate Assistant before proceeding to Oxford University (Wolfson College) to pursue an MSC degree in Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing, through a Commonwealth Scholarship award from the Scholarship Advisory Board of The Gambia.
For further information about this outstanding Gambian, can be obtained from the following website:- www.maths.edu.ac.uk |
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