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A school on computational materials science that drew expert teachers and talented participants marks a new approach to the development of research in Africa.

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Figure 1: School's out.

NITHAYA CHETTY

Figure 2: Mentoring matters.

AMY LAZICKI

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  1. and is in the Department of Physics, Nithaya Chetty is a past president of the South African Institute of Physics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa,

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  2. Richard M. Martin chairs the International Advisory Panel for ASESMA, and is emeritus professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080, USA,

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  3. Sandro Scandolo is at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, I-34014 Trieste, Italy.,

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Chetty, N., Martin, R. & Scandolo, S. Material progress in Africa. Nature Phys 6, 830–832 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1842

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