We invite you to join us in Muizenberg for an exciting programme which includes:

• An opening ceremony at the Kenilworth Racecourse, South Africa's oldest horse racing track which hosted its first race in 1881.

• A pre-festival mathematical optimisation workshop, 4-15 March (by Roland Herzog, Ekaterina Kostina, Michael Winckler and team, Heidelberg University).

• A pre-festival SAP Tech in Schools Makers session, 16 March (by Jadga Hügle & Christiane Bauer – SAP University Alliances and AIMS South Africa School Enrichment team).

• Women in Mathematics (by Karin-Therese Howell & Rejoyce Gavhi-Molefe, AIMS South Africa & Nancy Ann Neudauer, Pacific University).

• A Topology for Tomorrow workshop (by David Holgate, University of the Western Cape; Cerene Rathilal, University of Kwazulu Natal; Balázs Szendroi, University of Vienna).

• A Functional Analysis workshop (by Sanne ter Horst, North-West University; Ronalda Benjamin, Stellenbosch University; Eder Kikianty, University of Pretoria; Miek Messerschmidt, University of Pretoria; Bertin Zinsou, Wits University.

• An active working group session “AI for Climate Research – a Call to Action!” (by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Vogl, University of Applied Sciences Regensburg).

• The first decade of the German Research Chairs at AIMS, 21-22 March. The celebration is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), implemented by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

• The first decade of the Department of Science and Innovation and the National Research Foundation (DSI-NRF) Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (CoE-MaSS) on 20 March.