ICTP Senior Associate Mary Teuw Niane has been appointed Rector of UniversitÃ© Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Senegal. Niane’s ties to the Centre date back to 1999, and he has been an Associate since 2000. He served as tutor at the ICTP School on Nonlinear Differential Equations in October 2006. His primary areas of research are partial differential equations and control theory. Before his recent appointment to Rector, he was director of the Laboratoire d’analyses numÃ©riques et d’informatique (Lani).