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 permanent tenured teaching and research position at Ziguinchor University. Presentation, March 2025.
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. Since 2022, she withdrew from the project.
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 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Waterloo, Canada.