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Deadline 15 January 2016

EAUMP Self-evaluationFor all departmental members of the network

1. Organization

a) Contact informationName of Node CoordinatorProf Eunice MureithiLocationDepartment/unit: Department of MathematicsUniversity/institute: University of Dar es SalaamPart of the network since year: 2002

ContactEmail: [email protected] office: +255 22 2410388 Phone mobile: +255 683059964

b) List all staff at the department involved in the EAUMP network activities.Gender (F/M)

Given name, family name Position held/ Function

Staff qualifications PhD Other Ac. Supp.

F Eunice Mureithi Head of Depart xM Sylvester E. Rugeihyamu Assistant

Coordinatorx

M Allen Mushi Member of Advisory Committee

x

c) List all PhD students currently enrolled at your department. Clearly indicate if they are supported by ISP or not.

Gender(F/M)

Given name, family name,area of specialization and email address

Start. year

Exp.Grad. year

Staff(Yes/No)

ISP- support (Yes/No)

SWC/LOC*

M Isdory Augustino, Applied Mathematics,[email protected]

2014 2017 Yes Yes SWC

M John Andongwisye, Applied Mathematics, [email protected]


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Deadline 15 January, 2016

M Evarest Emmanuel, Applied Mathematics, [email protected]


M Alfred Hugo, Applied Mathematics, [email protected]

2014 2017 NO NO LOC

M Thadei D. Sagamiko, tsagamiko@gmail,com

2011 2016 NO NO LOC

F Triphonia Jacob Ngailo, Applied Mathematics, [email protected]

2014 2017 NO NO LOC

F Ainea Neterindwa, Applied Mathematics, [email protected]

2014 2017 NO NO LOC

M Sizah Mwalusepo, [email protected]

2011 2016 NO NO LOC

F Aziza Juma Idd, Applied Mathematics, [email protected]

2013 2016 NO NO LOC

F Geomira Sanga, Applied Mathematics, [email protected]

2014 2017 NO NO LOC

F Emaline Joseph, Applied Mathematics, [email protected]

2013 2016 NO NO LOC

*SWC = Sandwich, LOC= Local

d) List the ISP supported MSc students currently enrolled at your department.Gender(F/M)

Given name, family name Start. Year

Grad. year

Staff(Yes/No)

SWC/LOC*

F Dellvine Koka 2014 2016 No LOC


2. Historical overview and current situation

Historical description of your departmenta) Baseline. Briefly describe the situation at your department before you joined the EAUMP

network.(Including postgraduate training, research activity, available facilities, book and journal access, internet connection, funding, staff capacity, conference attendance and available networks for scientific collaboration).

Just before the start of EAUMP in 2002 the situation was as follows:

2 Professors ( 1 –visiting professor), 2 Associate Professors, 1 Senior Lecturer , 4 Lecturers, 3 Assistant Lecturers (M.Sc.), 2 Technicians and 2 Secretaries 2. In total 12 academic staff members with 9 PhD holders.

By 2002 we had only one MSc. program in Mathematics with an average of enrolment 4 students per year.

Internet connection in the department was slow, unstable and unreliable.

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Between 1990-1999, the department had a project named HEDCO supported by the Irish government. From 2000 to 2002 the department did not have any project or network, until EAUMP came in 2002. It was difficult to get sponsorship for postgraduate studies.

By 2002, the department had about two students doing PhD. The opportunity to attend conferences and workshops were very minimal or none.

Few were able to attend workshops by using their own initiatives to solicit for funding.

b) With the help of your librarian, provide a brief historical account of the development of the Departmental library since you joined the network.

The department has a mathematics library housed in the department. Most books have been donated to the department though this information is not well documented.

Through EAUMP various books were purchased for library. We also received donation of books from ISP and number books from Ireland. We recently got 1142 reference books PACM project.

c) What were the main challenges/difficulties facing your department since you joined the network? (Internal and external bottlenecks or hindrances for increased capacity and development).

Main Challenges:

Few staff, consequently with heavy teaching load and less time for research. Most staff have been on study leave. The situation has started changing.

Access to mathematical journals through MathSci net and Science Direct is lacking

d) Briefly describe the situation today compared to when your department joined the network. (Including postgraduate training, research activity, available facilities, book and journal access, internet connection, funding, staff capacity, conference attendance and available networks for scientific collaboration).

Current Situation One full professor ; 4 Associate professors ; 5 Senior Lecturers (PhD); 10 Lecturers

(PhD); 11 assistant lecturers (M.Sc.); 6 Tutorial Assistants ( B.Sc.) 6; 1 Technicians; 1 secretaries and 1 office attendant. Total staff 37 excluding technicians and secretaries.

There are 20 PhD holders in the department while by 2002 the department had only 9 PhD holders. Five PhD of the PhD holders were sponsored by EAUMP under a

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Sandwich Mode. These are Egbert Mujuni, Nyimvua Shaban, Mwanzalima Makungu, Mashaka Mkandawile and Mohamed Rashid.

Nine members of staff are on study leave for PhD. Of those 3 are supported by EAUMP and two by SIDA , all on Sandwich program.

Three staff members were supported for Post-doc training by EAUMP. These are Egbert Mujuni, Charles Mahera and currently Mwanzalima Makungu.

Currently we have 10 students enrolled for PhD in the Department. These students are all not staff members.

Over the period 2002-2015 EAUMP has supported a total of 12 Masters students. Out of those 12, 4 were further supported to do PhD and they have already graduated . These are Herieth Rwezaura, Mwanzalima Makungu, Mashaka Mkandawile and Rashid Mohamed.

The department has reliable, fast and stable internet connection. We have access to journals through the main University main library.

The Department library has benefitted from books donation from various sources. Various research activities such as workshops, conferences , annual research week

have been hosted and organized by the department. EAUMP has been supporting some of these activities such as the research week,

conference attendance and also support of staff members with journal publication fees. One of the main outputs of research activities is publications.

Various staff members have been promoted to various levels as a results of their research output. Three staff have been promoted to associate professors, 4 to senior lecturer position and 10 to lecturer position.

Over the period 2008-2015 the Department has benefitted from two other networks namely CIMO (ended in 2015) and NOMA (2008-2013). In 2015 PACM supported the department with books and equipment.

Currently we have support mainly from EAUMP and SIDA 2015-2020) projects. The African Mathematics Millennium Science Initiative (AMMSI) partially supports postgraduate students and also supports conference organizing.

The Department has two MSc. programs, namely MSc. (Mathematics) and MSc. (Mathematical Modelling established in 2008). Between 2009-2013 the average number of enrolment in these programs was about 30. In 2014, the postgraduate tuition was increased and this resulted in a sudden decrease in enrollment to an average of 13 students per year. Enrolment in 2015 was 12 students in M.Sc. The University has decided to reduce the fees again in some of the colleges where enrollment was affected by the fees increase.

e) How well does the library meet the needs of your Department in terms of periodicals and reference texts?(Highly satisfactory, fairly satisfactory, satisfactory, lacking some mainstream periodicals, lacking some reference texts, inadequate Internet access? Briefly describe).

The departmental library at the moment is well stocked with reference books. Some books can also be accessed from the main library.

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Access to important mathematical Journals such as MathSci net and Science Direct journals is not available.

f) What are the main challenges/difficulties facing your department today? (Internal and external bottlenecks or hindrances for increased capacity and development).

Main challenges facing the department are –

insufficient Office space and equipments , Lack of wireless services Unreliable power supply Lack of access important mathematical journals

Visiong) What is the overall vision of your department? (What does your department want to

achieve in term of research and higher education?).

The vision of the Mathematics Department is to be internationally recognised and also to be a national centre of excellence in Mathematics in terms of research, quality education, public services and in knowledge and human resources capacity building in mathematics.

h) Where should your future emphasis be put to be able to realize the vision? (Which are the areas of improvements and what are your general future plans?).

To build the research capacity of staff members Carry out cutting edge research Formation of research teams Introduction of research chairs

3. Postgraduate training

MSc Programa) Does your department have an in-house MSc program? If no, what is the reason? If yes,

what specializations are available?

The department has two programs for masters training that take 2 years, namely, i. MSc. in Mathematical Modeling ii. MSc. in Mathematics

b) How many MSc. students are currently enrolled? (Indicate both the total number and number with ISP support).Total: 23ISP supported: 1

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Comment: Twelve students are in their first year and eleven are in the second research year. A

further nine student have joined at second year level for research from African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS-TZ).

Only one of students is supported by EAUMP this year. On average EAUMP supports two students each year but due to increase in school fees in 2014, we have been to support only one per year. The University has decided to reduced school fees for the programs in College of Natural and Applied Science (and others) where Mathematics department is housed.

c) How has the MSc program(s) developed at the department over the past 10 years?

Before EAUMP the enrolment in MSc. was very low and students would take, on average, more than two years to graduate.

The NOMA project was started in 2008 and was for five years (2008-2013). It involved five partner countries namely the host Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. Two students were sponsored from each country per year. In total 42 students that were supported under NOMA graduated with MSc

In 2006 EAUMP had allocation for support of two MSc. students per two years. Todate 12 students supported by EAUMP have graduated.

d) What improvements can be made in regards to the MSc program(s)?

The department has a good number of staff members in applied mathematics and very few in pure mathematics. This is a national problem in Tanzanian Universities. We are now targeting to increase the number staff specializing in pure mathematics in the country.

An initiative to improve the poor state of pure mathematics in Tanzania has already started under the support of SIDA project. MSc. Curriculum review in pure mathematics is going to take place in January 2016 under the support of SIDA project. The enrollment will start in October 2016. Eight MSc. in pure Mathematics students will be supported over the 2016-2020 period of the SIDA program.

We hope that EAUMP will also support a further 4 students in pure mathematics with enrolments of 2 students in 2016 and 2 students in 2018.

The department will need support with sponsorship of these students to continue with PhD after finishing their MSc.

PhD Program e) Do you have an in-house PhD program at the department? If no, what is the reason?

The department has PhD program by research only. Under the support of the SIDA project , the department is in the process of developing curriculum for a PhD program by coursework and dissertation. Enrolment will be October 2016. SIDA is supporting 3 staff members to do PhD over the period 2015-2020.

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f) How many PhD students from your department are currently enrolled at your department?(Indicate both the total number and number with ISP support).Total: 10ISP supported: 3Comment: There are many candidates who want to enroll for PhD but are unable to do so due to lack of sponsorship.

g) How has the PhD program developed at the department over the past 10 years?

PhD enrolment between 2002 and 2010 was very low. However this has changed in recent years as the demand for staff with PhD is on the increase.

At the moment the department has enough staff members to supervise, though we lack expertise in some areas.

h) What improvements can be made in regards to the PhD program?

We are now establishing a taught PhD program. We are in need of experts in some of the courses in the curriculum. Under SIDA program some funds are available to facilitate expert exchange between UDSM and Sweden to come and teach some courses. More support is however needed to be able to cover all the courses that need external experts.

PhD training depends on the capacity of the department. In order to improve and to have more competent staff members, Postdoc training is needed to build-up research capacity of the staff.

i) Is there any course work available for local PhD students? If yes, please list the courses available for PhD students. At moment the department does not have a taught PhD program but currently we in the process of development a new taught PhD program under the SIDA project.

j) What is your opinion on the sandwich model PhD training, compared to other models (full time local and full time abroad)?

The sandwich model for PhD training is less costly and provide time to for students to get international experience and interact with experts from Sweden

Gives them a chance to get to stay with their families back home for at least 6 months per year.

It gives the candidates opportunity to access to modern facilities such as books, journals etc.

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Post-doc

k) Are there any Postdoc positions for incoming Postdocs available at your department?

Positions for Postdocs are available but individuals are expected to support themselves The department has no fund to support such activities, but can facilitate some of the costs such as accommodation.

l) Besides ISP/EAUMP, are there any other sources of funding available for Postdoc from your department? If yes, from where?

Under SIDA Mathematics program three Postdoc positions will be available in the period from 2015 – 2020. There is no other source of support for Postdoc training in the Department.

4. Research and Collaboration

a) How is the research activities organized at your department? Do you have research teams? If yes, in what fields? If not, what is the reason why?

Research activities include students supervision, research seminars and collaborative research between staff members. Research teams are there informally but already some groups have already started moving towards formation of research teams. An inverse problems group meets often and more groups will follow.

The main research activity is the regular research seminars presented by MSc. and PhD students.

b) Approximately how many hours/week does staff and sandwich PhD students spend on research, on average? Staff: On average 15-20 hours that can be spent doing research by the research active staff members per week.Sandwich PhD students: On average 25-30 hours can be spent on research.

c) Approximately how many hours/week does staff and sandwich PhD students spend on teaching, on average? Staff: Approximately 20 hours on teaching and preparations.

Sandwich PhD students: They spend approximately 4-6 hours per week on tutorials and preparation of tutorials

Comment: Most of PhD students are assigned one hour of tutorial session and no teaching.

d) Describe the staff exchange within the network. (To and from where, and frequency and purpose of travel).

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Staff exchange in the region mainly was mainly during the period of NOMA project. During that period one staff member per year could come for a period of one month to teach MSc. courses and supervise M.Sc. and PhD students.

e) Besides the EAUMP network, what scientific collaboration and networks does you department have with researchers inside and outside the university? If not, what is the reason? (Indicate both national and international and type of collaboration).

The department has a Memorandum of understanding with AIMS-TZ on research and teaching.

The Department is the patron of the Mathematics Association of Tanzania. The department gets occasional support from African Mathematics Millennium

Science Initiative (AMMSI) with postgraduate training and conference travel. The just ended program of CIMO through the HEI-ICI project was also involved in

support in mobility of staff for research to and from Finland. The Department has recently benefited from Pan African Centre for Mathematics

(PACM) through BADEA who donated books and equipment to the department. The department has been involved in supporting local Universities with training and

teaching of mathematics.

f) Please list the seminar series conducted at the department since you became a member of the EAUMP network.

Topic seminar series, and name of responsible staff member

Year Frequency No. of participants

The departmental seminar series are regular and mainly presented by postgraduate students. Occasionally visiting staff give seminars but a record of this information is not available.

5. The EAUMP Network and the ISP collaboration

a) How and when did your department get involved with the EAUMP network? Briefly describe. The department was included in the EAUMP program in 2002. This was right at the start of EAUMP program and three institutions were involved namely University of Dar es Salaam, University of Nairobi and Makerere University.

b) What has been the nature of the ISP/EAUMP support? What does it include for your department?

Support from ISP has been in-terms: Support of MSc training. Approximately two MScs per year before the increase in

school fees. Currently one student per year.

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Support of PhD training normally three PhD students per enrollment period of every after three years.

Post-doc training Support with purchase of equipments such as computers, printers and laptops support for research activities such as conference attendance, publication fees.

c) What would you say that the ISP support to the network has contributed with to your department? (Both in material and immaterial terms).

Contributions of ISP: Supported 13 MSc students (On average two students per year). 12 have already

graduated and one is on-going. Supported 8 PhD students, 5 have already graduated and 3 are on-going. Purchased computers and laptops for the department. Support in research, mainly in publication fees. Support staff to attend conference and workshops Established network and collaborations between the five universities under EAUMP.

d) What are your experiences of the network collaboration? What has worked well and what can be improved?

EAUMP established links between the five universities in the region and universities in Sweden.

Existence of EAUMP established sharing of information and collaboration through various activities such as meetings, workshops, conferences, training of MSc. Students etc

Other links have been established, largely through EAUMP, such as CIMPA, ICPT, TWAS, CDC etc

Sharing of resources can be done. Exchange of staff and students has been done.

To be improved

Formation of research centres of excellence in the region can be facilitated.

e) How can the ISP support be improved to benefit you more?

More support is needed for training staff members in pure mathematics upto PhD level

Support to establish research groups/teams in the department. Support to establish research teams among EAUMP members. Establishment of a regional centre of excellence.

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6. Funding

a) What funding for postgraduate activities does your department currently have besides ISP? Please list the funding received for year 2015 in USD below. (Including university funding, and national, regional and international funding).

Source of grant (Besides from ISP) Amount/CurrencySIDA Mathematics Project USD 71,395University of Dar es Salaam Supports through

staffing

b) What activities is ISP support mainly used and needed for and what can be done without ISP support/with other sources of funding?

ISP has been supporting the following:- Sponsoring at least two Msc students per year- Sponsoring three PhD students on sandwich per three years- Support of equipment such as computers and laptops - Support of research such as library books, fees for publications, inter-visits in the

region, Postdocs- Support for conferences and workshops attendance and organization.

In all the above items the support from ISP is still needed, but we can look for funds from other sources to supplement available funds.

c) Does your department have an “exit” strategy if and when ISP phases out the support? Please describe.

More support is still needed from ISP to build capacity for research. Most staff members in the department do not have PhD and those with PhD need research capacity building.

d) How would you describe the government’s attitude towards mathematics? (Highly supportive, supportive, weakly supportive, or unsupportive?Briefly describe).

The Government of the United Republic of Tanzania has a positive attitude towards mathematics. Members of the department have been invited to participate in various national activities such as curriculum review of secondary education, two staffs have been members of committee for National Basic Science, one staff is Director of undergraduate studies of the university of Dar es salaam, one member is the deputy Principal of CoNAS etc

The minister of education and the President of Tanzania were at one time members of our department of mathematics.

e) How would you describe the university administration’s attitude towards mathematics?(Highly supportive, supportive, weakly supportive, or unsupportive?Briefly describe).

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The university is highly supportive. Staffing situation has greatly improved in numbers. They department has recently received 6 newly recruitment staff members at tutorial assistant level.

The University has been supporting activities such as conferences or workshops organized by the Department.

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7. Outcomes

Graduationsa) How many PhD graduates have graduated from your department since you joined the network until today? (Indicate total number and number

with ISP support).Total: 8With ISP support: 5Comments: Enrolment has improved in the recent years. Currently 10 students are enrolled for PhD.

b) List all PhD graduates from your department supported by ISP, since you joined the network until today. Please also provide the additional information requested.

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a) For the PhD graduates supported by ISP please also list publications in international peer-reviewed journals, since graduation.

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Gender(F/M)

Academic title, Full name and email

Start. year

Grad.Year

Univ. of grad.

SWH/LOC*

IF SWH: Country, host institution and name of host supervisor

No of SWH visits

Total no of months in host country

Present position, affiliation and country

M Egbert Mujuni, Senior Lecturer, [email protected]

2004 2008 UDSM SWH Austria, Vienna Technical University Prof. Herbert Fleischner

Senior Lecturer and Deputy CoNAS Principal at UDSM, Tanzania

M Shaban Nyimvua, Senior Lecturer,[email protected]

2004 2008 UDSM SWH SwedenUppsala UniversityProf. David Sumpter

Senior Lecturer at UDSM, Tanzania

M MakunguMwanzalima, Lecturer,[email protected]

December 2009

2014 UDSM SWH SwedenLoyal Institute of technologyProf. Mats Boij

Lecturer at UDSM, Tanzania

M MashakaMkandawile, Lecturer, [email protected]

2009 2015 UDSM SWH Sweden, Umea UniversityProf. Rolland Haggavist


M Rashid Mohamed, Lecturer, [email protected]

August 2009

2015 UDSM SWH Uppsala University , Prof. David Sumpter



mailto:[email protected]




Gender(F/M)

Full name Grad. Year

No of pub. in int. journals

List publications

M N. Shaban 2014 2 Modelling the effects of public health education in the spread of hepatitis B disease, Accepted for publication in: Applied Mathematical Sciences.Modelling the effects of public health education in the spread of hepatitis B disease, Applied Mathematical Sciences (25-50%)

M N. Shaban and H. Mofi

2014 2 Modeling the Impacts of Vaccination and Screening on the Dynamics of Human Papillomavirus Infection, Int. Journal of Math. Analysis, Vol. 8, No. 9, 441–454 (25-50%)Modeling the Impacts of Vaccination and Screening on the Dynamics of Human Papillomavirus Infection, Int. Journal of Math. Analysis, Vol. 8, No. 9, 441–454

M ThadeiSagamiko, Nyimvua Shaban, Cuthbert Nahonyo and Oluwole Daniel Makinde

2014 1 Optimal Control of Threatened Wildebest-Lion prey predator system incorporating constant prey refuge in the Serengeti Ecosystem, Submitted to Africa Journal of Ecology.

M N. Shaban and A. Hassan

2013 1 Modelling the Effects of Nutrition on the Transmission Dynamics of HIV/AIDS, ICASTOR Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Vol 7, No. 2 169 –185

M J. William Kira, N. Shaban, and J. Y. T. Mugisha

2013 1 The Optimal Clean Renewable Energy Revenues under the Climate Problem Scenario, ICASTOR Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Vol 7,No. 1 11 –33.

M N. Shaban, T. Britton, M. Andersson and Å. Svensson

2011 1 Networks, epidemics and early stage vaccination: the effects of infectious and vaccination delay periods and their randomness, Pioneer Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 1, 55 –72.

M N. Shaban,T. Britton, M. Andersson and Å. Svensson

2009 1 Household epidemics,: Modelling the effects of early stage vaccination, Biometrical Journal51(3), 408 –419.

M N. Shaban, T. Britton, M. Andersson and Å. Svensson

2008 1 Networks, epidemics and vaccination through contact tracing, Mathematical Biosciences, 216, 1-8.

M D. Manumbu, E Mujuni and D

2014 1 A Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Solving the School Bus Routing Problem: A Case

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Kuznetsov Study of Dar es Salaam, Computer Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Vol.5, No.8, Page 44-58 (25-50%)

M Egbert Mujuni 2013 1 Connected Dominating Set Problem for Hypercubes and Grid Graphs(2013), iCASTOR Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 7 No 2, Page 81-89.

M E. Mujuni, Mohamed Seleman and Allen Mushi

2013 1 An Examination Scheduling Algorithm Using Graph Colouring–The Case of Sokoine University Of Agriculture, International Journal of Computer Engineering & Applications, Vol. II, Issue I/III, (2013)

M Seleman, E. Mujuniand A. Mushi

2013 1 An Examination Scheduling Algorithm Using Graph Colouring–The Case of Sokoine University Of Agriculture, International Journal ofComputer Engineering & Applications, Vol. II, Issue I/III.

M M. Kahebo, E. Mujuniand Allen Mushi

2013 1 Optimization of Municipal Solid Waste Management Problem with Composting Plants: The case of Ilala Municipality. Int. Jour. Adv, in Comp. Sci.&Tech, Vol. 2, No.8.

M H. Lyeme,E. Mujuni , A. Mushi

2011 1 Optimization model for Solid Waste Management at Ilala Municipal, Tanzania, Journal of Informatics and Virtual Education Volume 1, Number 1.

M E. Mujuni, Herbert Fleischner, DaniëlPaulusma and Stefan Szeider

2009 1 Covering graphs with few complete bipartite subgraphs. Theor. Comput. Sci. 410(21-23): 2045-2053.

M E. Mujuni 2008 1 Parameter algorithms in smooth 4-regular hamiltonian graphs, Mathematics in Computer Science 1(4): 701-708.

M E. Mujuniand F. Rosamond,

2008 1 Parameterized complexity of the clique partition problem, In James Harland and PrabhuManyem, editors, Fourteenth Computing: CATS, volume 77 of CRPIT,pages 75–78, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, 2008. ACS.

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b) How many MSc graduates have graduated from your department since the start of your membership in the network until today? (Indicate total number and number with ISP support).

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Total: 142With ISP support: 12Comments:

2004 (3), 2005 (2), 2006 (4), 2007 (2), 2008 (4), 2009 (6), 2010 (14), 2011 (34), 2012 (25), 2013 (25), 2014 (2), 2015 (21),

c) List all MSc graduates from your department supported by ISP, from the start of your membership in the network until today.

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Gender(F/M)

Academic title, Full name and email

Grad. year

Univ. of Grad. If possible, present position, affiliation and country

M Rashid Mohamed [email protected]

2004 UDSM Lecturer at UDSM

M [email protected]

2005 MAKERERE UNIVERSIRY

Lecturer at UDSM

M [email protected]


M Said Sima 2005 UDSM Lecturer at UDSMM Damas P. Kavenuke 2005 UDSM DeceasedF HeriethRwezaura

[email protected]


M Evarist [email protected]

2008 UDSM Assistant Lecturer at UDSM

M Makungu James [email protected]


M [email protected]

2012 UDSM Assistant Lecturer at Mbeya Technical College, Tanzania

M Kira Justin William 2011 UDSM Lecturer at UDSMF Salma Saleh Moh'd : 2011 UDSM Lecturer at UDSMF Lydia Lwegelela–

[email protected]

2015 UDSM Teacher at Mzember Secondary School Tanzania

M GeradiusDeogratias–[email protected]








d) In your opinion, is the number of Master’s and Doctoral graduations since your joined the EAUMP network over or under the expected number of graduations? Please comment and explain.

The number of Masters and doctoral graduations is over the expected number. The contribution of EAUMP on training of postgraduate students is significant, with i total of 8 PhD (5 have graduated) and 13 MSc (12 have graduated). That is highly significant.

e) Approximately how many students have left the MSc or PhD program since you joined the network?(Indicate both total and ISP supported students).Total: 0With ISP support: 0

f) What were reasons for students leaving the program? And where did they go?

NOT APPLICABLE

Postdocsg) If applicable, please list all EAUMP postdocs from your department.

Gender(F/M)

Full name No of months

Year Country, host institution and name of host supervisor

M Dr. Nyimvua Shaban 4 2012 Sweden, Uppsala University , Prof. David Sumpter

M Charles Mahera 4 2012 Norway,

M Makungu Mwanzalima 4 2015 Sweden, Linkopping University ,

8. Outreach activities, application of results, assignments and awards

a) Outreach activities: Describe any interaction (meetings, participation in committees, etc.) with government/society/industry/NGOs in the country, in the region or in global conventions, etc., including unpublished reports to authorities, media exposure and public lectures etc. (Were the outreach activities on your initiative or by invitation? Give account for any tangible or expected effects of outreach activities, including possibilities for policy influence.).

The department is the patron of the Mathematics Association of Tanzania (MAT). The department in collaborations with MAT usually organizes various outreach activities such regional and National Mathematics seminars.

b) Application and use of research results: are there research results that have come to use in practice or have influenced policy? (Describe any documented use of research results, including in teaching, and any impact or possible influence on policy/practices, any results used in patents and/or in practical/industrial use, etc.).

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The department, in collaboration with the Mathematics Association of Tanzania, has been advising the government of the best ways of assessing the primary school students in Mathematics. The discussion with the government is still ongoing.

c) Give examples on how activities and outcomes have strengthened and benefitted researchers and stakeholders nationally and regionally. (including new assignments. E.g. List staff members who took new positions in 2014, received awards, were given other honors, or were appointed to boards, government committees, etc. For staff members, who took new positions, please give new affiliation and email address. How have stakeholders benefitted, for example the public, collaborators, and any group affected or concerned by the research activities?).

Prof Mushi- Director of Undergraduate studiesDr. Mujuni- Deputy Principal, College of Natural and Applied Sciences

9. Additional information and comments

a) Is there anything else you would like to add about the ISP collaboration or EAUMP in general?

Currently we have 12 young PhD staff members who graduated over the period 2008-2015. To make them more competent in research and teaching, support with Postdoc positions is highly needed.

The department is starting to recruit MSc in pure mathematics; support with PhD training is needed to enable the trained MSc. continue with PhD studies.

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