Accra, Dec.11, GNA- Professor Olivier Menoukeu Pamen, the German Research Chair at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Ghana, has called for closer collaboration between mathematical scientists and policy-makers to solve societal challenges.
He said challenges such as floods, traffic congestion, financial crisis, and disease outbreaks could be managed better if policy-makers engaged mathematical scientists regularly to solicit their views and inputs towards resolving them.
He proposed an annual conference for Mathematical Scientists to discuss the state of mathematics study in Ghana, intended to find applied mathematics to be taught in schools to shape the country’s development.
Prof. Pamen made the call in an interview with the Ghana News Agency during the closing ceremony of the Second Edition of Colloquium of PhD in Mathematics and its Applications (PMIA) at AIMS Ghana in Accra.
Prof. Pamen, also the Lead Organiser of the Colloquium, was of the view that a better understanding of mathematical concepts by policy-makers would compel them to allocate a significant amount of financial resources towards its application.
The three-day workshop provided a platform for increasing co-operation among PhD candidates on one hand, and the various institutions and research centres on the other hand.
Some of the topics discussed during the workshop included microfinance, statistics, data analysis, stochastic analysis, control theory, geometry and quantum algebra.