From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/10380 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: simona.paoli@virgilio.it Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Leicester Pure Maths crisis- petition Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 20:58:07 +0100 Message-ID: Reply-To: simona.paoli@virgilio.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22206"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: "categories@mta.ca" Original-X-From: majordomo@rr.mta.ca Fri Jan 29 22:11:32 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from smtp2.mta.ca ([198.164.44.75]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l5b3B-0005hT-VV for gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:11:30 +0100 Original-Received: from rr.mta.ca ([198.164.44.159]:41762) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1l5b1f-0006nX-IU; Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:09:55 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by rr.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.92.1) (envelope-from ) id 1l5ayG-000414-KP for categories-list@rr.mta.ca; Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:06:24 -0400 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.science.mathematics.categories:10380 Archived-At: Dear All, There is a threat to pure mathematics research at Leicester and a petition here https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/mathematics-is-not-redundant which I encourage you to sign. The proposals represent an attack on pure mathematics research in general and a specific threat to the category theory research represented at Leicester and to the LMS funded Yorkshire and Midlands Category Theory network which has its main node at Leicester. Best wishes, Simona. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Simona Paoli Associate Professor School of Mathematics and Actuarial Science University of Leicester, UK [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]