The Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) of the International Mathematical Union is pleased to announce that Victor Gonzalo Neumann (Universidad Federal de Uberlandia, Brazil) will teach at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán  in Tegucigalpa, Honduras as visiting professor from September 23th  to October 22th, 2012 a course in Abstract Algebra.

Ana María Bertone (Universidad Federal de Uberlandia, Brazil) will teach at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán  in Tegucigalpa, Honduras as visiting professor from October 14th  to November 12th, 2012 a course in Linear Algebra.

CDC members visit Korea to discuss issues regarding the support for ICM participants from developing and economically disadvantaged countries. The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) will be held 2014 in Korea and offered to invite 1,000 mathematicians in developing countries (DC) to Korea during ICM 2014.

The Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) of the International Mathematical Union is pleased to announce that Professor Fidel Nemenzo from the Institute of Mathematics, University of the Philippines gave a course in Algebraic Number Theory as part of the MS Mathematics program of RUPP from March 20 until April 11, 2012.

The Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) of the International Mathematical Union is pleased to announce that Professor Brigitte Lucquin of Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, France is completing her stay as visiting lecturer in Cambodia. She is taking part in the Volunteer Lecturer Program at the Royal University of Phnom Penh in January 2012 and is supported by CDC/ IMU.

The Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) of the International Mathematical Union is pleased to announce that Professor Brigitte Lucquin of Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, France is completing her stay as visiting lecturer in Benin. She is taking part in the Volunteer Lecturer Program from the 7th - 25th November 2011 and is teaching a course on "Introduction to Partial Differential Equations and their Approximations" at the L'Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques (IMSP) in Benin and is supported by CDC/ IMU.

The course is given in French. Participants are mainly students of the master level, but also some PhD students, colleagues and some physicists.  They come from Benin, but also from Guinea, Burundi, Togo, Cameroun and Mali.

The Commission for Developing Countries, part of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) has launched a new support scheme where the shipment of textbooks to universities in less economically developed countries is supported. CDC offers limited financial support for shipment costs for individual scientists or institutions wishing to donate books in the mathematical sciences to libraries in developing countries. Libraries in universities/research institutions in developing countries can apply for to receive donated books. For more information please go here. 

The Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) of the International Mathematical Union is pleased to announce that Professor Padmanabhan Seshaiyer of George Mason University's Department of Mathematical Sciences in Fairfax, Virgina (USA) has completed his stay as visiting lecturer at the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology (NM AIST-Arusha) in Arusha, Tanzania.

For more information please go here.

The program is designed to enhance the mathematical capacity &productivity of recipient research groups. The project will focus on mathematicians and their graduate students at institutions of higher learning in sub-Saharan Africa. The Foundation will make competitive awards that, taken together, will total approximately 400,000 USD per year for each of the next 10 years.

For more information please go here.

As part of the Capacity and Networking Project (CANP), a workshop called EDIMATHS took place in Mali, from the 19th – 30th September 2011 at the University of Bamako.

The programme had more than 40 participants, approximately half from Mali and the rest from Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Niger and Senegal.

The workshop has received funding through UNESCO, ICMI, IMU, CIMPA, SCAC/Bamako, the Ministre de l'Éducation, de l'Alphabétisation et des Langues Nationales and the Ministre de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Scientifique du Mali.

The areas addressed included:

• Mathematics at the heart of secondary education: numbers, geometry (plan and space), algebra, taking into account the curricular progressions and the didactics of mathematics.

• Issues of common interest to the educators of the region e.g. teaching in multi-lingual contexts, the transition between the first and second cycles of basic education and the relationship between mathematical  content and useful mathematical competence in the curricula.

The workshop will create a website that will maintain the connection between participants and extend the collaborative work that was developed. It will also record the synthesis in the training of teachers in the countries concerned.