Our program focuses on young researchers. In terms of research, our energies and resources are concentrated on selected promising students from Central Africa, either identified or recommended, who are motivated by arithmetic and geometry. The first students come from Congo, Gabon, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Senegal, and Cameroon. During our first activities in Africa, we identified a generation of young students motivated by mathematics. Since then, we have opened up this group to all the motivated young people we have met along the way.
Copernic Boungouendji Lebouma from Gabon 🇬🇦. Copernic is a Gabonese student at Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku in Franceville in Gabon who defended his master in 2024 on the freeness of the Galois groups of some local fields. A PhD contract coadvised by Christian Maire and Tony Ezome is currently being put in place. Copernic has been awarded with a master fellowship by the Simons Foundation through their program Africa Mathematics Projects May 2013 – April 2023 (via the PREMA Project in Gabon).
Moustapha Camara from Senegal 🇸🇳. Moustapha was a PhD student at Université Assane Seck in Ziguinchor in Senegal. He defended his thesis in 2024. He works on rational points of algebraic curves defined over number fields and finite fields. His work, advised by Oumar Sall (Senegal), was supported by the Senegalese Ministry of Higher Education. Since September 2024, he has a tenured teaching and research position at Ziguinchor University.
Johnathan Djella Legnongo from Gabon 🇬🇦. Johnathan is a PhD student at Université Assane Seck in Ziguinchor in Senegal. He works on arithmetic functions for studying prime detection and primality proving. His PhD work is coadvised by Salomon Sambou (Senegal) and Tony Ezome. Johnathan has benefited from several research stays in Gabon, for which he received financial support from the European Mathematical Society through its program EMS-Simons for Africa, and from CNRS via the International Research Network AFRIMath. His PhD defense is scheduled in 2024.
Roslan Ibara from Republic of Congo 🇨🇬. Roslan is a PhD student at Université Marien Ngouabi in Brazzaville. He works on the arithmetic of number fields. His work is coadvised by Basile Guy Richard Bossoto (Republic of Congo) and Christian Maire. Roslan has benefited from several research stays in France, for which he received financial support from CNRS through the program Dispositif de Soutien aux Collaborationsavec l’Afrique subsaharienne, the Graduate School EIPHI, AFRIMath, the Doctoral School SPIM of Besançon, the EMS-CDC. His PhD is funded by IMU-CDC through its GRAID progam. His PhD defense is scheduled in 2025.
Brice Miayoka Moussolo from Republic of Congo 🇨🇬. Brice is a PhD student at Université Marien Ngouabi in Brazzaville. He works on the computation of rational points of curves of genus larger than 2 using the Chabauty-Coleman Method and the Mordell-Weil sieve. His work is coadvised by Basile Guy Richard Bossoto (Republic of Congo) and Tony Ezome. Brice has benefited from several research stays in Gabon, for which he received financial support from CNRS through the program Dispositif de Soutien aux Collaborations avec l’Afrique subsaharienne (via the REDGATE Project in Gabon). Brice has been selected by the scientific committee of the CIRM-CIMPA program to participate in the Thematic Month on Arithmetic and Information Theory at the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (CIRM) in France from January 30 to March 3, 2023. He has also been awarded a fellowship by the Coimbra Group for a two-months stay in the Netherlands. His PhD defense is scheduled in 2024.
Sarielle Peka from Cameroon 🇨🇲. Sarielle is a PhD student at University of Maroua in Cameroun. She works on the endomorphism rings of elliptic curves. Her work is coadvised by Joseph Dongho (University of Maroua) and Emmanuel Fouotsa (University of Bamenda), both in Cameroon. Sarielle is supported by the Cameroonese ministries of Education and Higher Education.
Ephraim Poncho-Kotey from Ghana 🇬🇭. Ephraim is a PhD student at University of Ghana in Accra. He works on intersection theory on surfaces and applications. His PhD work is coadvised by Ralph Twum (Ghana) and Tony Ezome. Ephraim has benefited from several research stays in Gabon, for which he received financial support from CNRS through the program Dispositif de Soutien aux Collaborations avec l’Afrique subsaharienne (via the REDGATE Project in Gabon). His PhD is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in USA through its program Higher Education and Research in Africa (via the BANGA Project in Ghana).
Mohamadou Sall from Senegal 🇸🇳. He defended his PhD thesis entitled “Normal Bases,Algebraic Groups and Finite Field Arithmetic” at Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar in Senegal in January 2021. His work, coadvised by Djiby Sow (Senegal) and Tony Ezome, has been funded by the Simons Foundation through its program Africa Mathematics Projects May 2013 – April 2023 (via the PREMA Project in Gabon). His PhD resulted in two papers published in Journal of Symbolic Computation and Finite Fields and Their Applications. Mohamadou has been awarded a seven-months visiting fellowship at the school of Mathematics and Statistics at Carleton University, Canada, from September 2021 February 2022, to collaborate with Daniel Panario. He is now looking for a position, even if he is assisting the Departement of Mathematics of Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal as a temporary lecturer.
Karim Sankara from Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 . Karim is a PhD student at Université Nazi Boni in Burkina Faso. He works on the Galois inverse problem for the Hilbert p-Class Field tower with splitting condition. His work is coadvised by Idrissa Kaboré (Burkina Faso) and Christian Maire. Karim has benefited from several research stays in France, for which he received financial support from CNRS through the program Dispositif de Soutien aux Collaborations avec l’Afrique subsaharienne (via the REDGATE Project in Gabon) and FEMTO-ST Institute. His PhD is funded by IMU-CDC through its GRAID progam. His PhD defense is scheduled in 2025.
In addition we are currently following eight promising Master students: Pierre Ebayi Essanga, Seguy Mihindou, Koel-Jemiel Lemondo-Ngoma, Aldo Spero Lokossa, Lhamma Ngaissou, Geordan Igouwe, Mozer Maleghi, Levi Atouth.
