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* Leicester Foundations of Computer Science crisis- petition
@ 2021-02-03 13:54 Martin Escardo
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From: Martin Escardo @ 2021-02-03 13:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
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It turns out that the Foundations of Computer Science group is also in
peril. The plan is to join the CS and Maths departments, and get rid of
all computer scientists and mathematicians whose work is not in data
science or AI. Please also sign this petition:

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/foco-is-not-redundant/

On 29/01/2021 19:58, simona.paoli@virgilio.it wrote:
> 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,
Martin


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