2021/09/01 by K. Assamagan, Kétévi A. Assamagan, Bobby Acharya +30
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Physics and Astronomy · Psychology · #FOS: Physical sciences #Global Politics and Economy #Mathematics education #Physics #Physics Education (physics.ed-ph) #Psychology #physics.ed-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2109.00509
15 pages, 9 figures and 1 table
openalex publication_date 2021/09/01 · openalex created_date 2021/09/13 · arxiv created 2021/09/29 · arxiv updated 2021/09/30 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The sixth edition of the African School of Fundamental and Applied Physics (ASP) was planned for Morocco in July 2020 and was referred to as ASP2020. Preparations were at an advanced stage when ASP2020 was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The three-week event was restructured into two activities in 2021 -- an online event on July 19-30, 2021 and a hybrid event on December 12-18, 2021 -- and was renamed ASP2021. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, an online lecture series was integrated into the ASP activities. The ASP mentorship program, which consists of online engagements between lecturers and assigned mentees, continued in this way. ASP alumni studied one year of COVID-19 data of ten African countries to offer insights into pandemic containment measures. In this note, we report on ASP activities since the last in-person edition of ASP in 2018 in Namibia.