Projects in the Global South

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I serve as coordinator of the Global South Plan of the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam.

See my CV for a detailed account of my actitivies.

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News:

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• From September to December 2026 I will be a Fellow at the UvA Institute for Advanced Study for a joint project with Jim Portegies and Michael Obiero Oyengo dedicated to the impact of AI and proof assistants on Mathematical communities in sub-Saharan Africa.

• I am co-organising a workshop in London dedicated to Building sustainable partnerships with Global South.

• I am co-organising a workshop at the Lorentz Center in Leiden dedicated to equitable international collaborations in Tropical Ecology.

• First Global South Fellowship Scheme at the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam.

• School on Arithmetic, Geometry and Algorithms, Addis Ababa August 2026.

• I co-wrote the chapter Opening the University to the Global South in the "Fixing Academia".

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I have been trying to collect a (very incomplete!) list of useful resources and training opportunities for students and researchers from the Global South, see here and here. General tips for PhD applications.

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Other events:

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• ​I am the reference contact for the University of Amsterdam of the newly established Cluster of Research Excellence in Mathematics, dedicated to Africa-Europe collaborations.

• I am now the coordinator of a working group of the Italian Mathematical Union dedicated to mathematics collaborations with the Global South.

• I am on the advisory board of the Africa Women in Algebra network. 

• INDAM workshop dedicated to mathematics collaborations between Italy and Brazil.

• Training school in Algebraic Geometry and Arithmetics, Kigali, August 2024.

• Interdisciplinary event in Amsterdam aimed at building partnerships with African Institutions, June 2024.

• ​​School of Physics and Mathematics without Frontiers, Cuba.

• Brief report on a recent trip the Anton de Kom University in Suriname.

• A summary of my activities in 2023 supported by the Amsterdam Young Academy

• We are running a remote Learning seminar in Algebraic Geometry. Get in touch if you are interested in participating.

• Establishing Europe-Africa academic collaborations Symposium

• Mathematics building Partnership with Africa, Symposium in Turin

• Workshop at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria

• Workshop at the University of Makerere, Uganda

• Eastern Africa Maths Olympiads 

• A mathematical journey from Pakistan to Ghana

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Publications:

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• C. Bonadiman, D. Martinelli, J. Ongaro, B. Szendroi, Live and remote: Nairobi workshops in algebraic geometry. European Mathematical Society Magazine. N.124, 38–41.

• D. Martinelli, A Primer to International Cooperation in Mathematics, to appear in JUNCO - Journal to UNiversities and International development COoperation n. 2/2024.

• D. Martinelli, M. Bolhuis, Opening the University to the Global South, to appear in the Fixing Academia book coming out on April 2.

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Some other useful links.

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• Nairobi Algebraic Geometry Workshop.

• Gruppo di Lavoro UMI dedicato alle collaborazioni con il Sud Globale.

• International Mathematics Master.

• AIMS South Africa.

• AIMS Cameroon.

• Some thoughts on my teaching experience in Africa.

• SAMI Maths Camps.