From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/10512 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip-Jan van Zyl Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: PhD positions at Leicester, UK Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:32:53 -0300 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Phillip-Jan van Zyl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5030"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: "categories@mta.ca" To: David Roberts Original-X-From: majordomo@rr.mta.ca Thu Jun 10 20:33:56 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 1lrPV6-00019g-EL for gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 20:33:56 +0200 Original-Received: from rr.mta.ca ([198.164.44.159]:33450) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1lrPUX-0004G5-20; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:33:21 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by rr.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.92.1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrPU5-0006SW-Dx for categories-list@rr.mta.ca; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:32:53 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.science.mathematics.categories:10512 Archived-At: I'm sorry to spam the list on this issue, but I would only like to add that= I am working in what they call "AI, computational modelling, digitalisation and data science" and my pure mathematics trainin= g serves me better than anything else may have served me. Best regards Phillip-Jan van Zyl =E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90 Original Me= ssage =E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90 On Wednesday, June 9th, 2021 at 2:34 AM, David Roberts wrote: > For what it's worth, we should point out the elephant in the room: > > "The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, Nishan > > Canagarajah, wants to lay off all 8 of their pure mathematicians, > > including the only 2 women with permanent positions, and then rehire > > just 3 of these mathematicians =E2=80=94 to do teaching, but not research= . He > > and his flunkies claim: > > [=E2=80=A6] to ensure a future research identity in AI, computational > > modelling, digitalisation and data science requires ceasing research > > in Pure Mathematics [=E2=80=A6]" > > (source: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2021/01/problems_at_the_uni= versity_of.html) > > "The London Mathematical Society has been informed that the University > > of Leicester is consulting over a proposal to reduce the size of its > > Pure Mathematics Group to be teaching only, in order to =E2=80=9Cmeet the > > rising market demand of artificial intelligence, computational > > modelling, digitalisation and data science=E2=80=9D. The Society strongly > > opposes this proposal and believes it to be seriously flawed for the > > following reasons. ..." > > (source: https://www.lms.ac.uk/news-entry/09022021-1444/mathematics-unive= rsity-leicester) > > And as a result: > > https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/11533/Global-boycott-of-University-of-Leic= ester-begins-today > > If someone can update us on the status of the various category > > theorists and allies it would be very useful. > > Thanks, > > David > > David Roberts > > Webpage: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/David+Roberts > > Blog: https://thehighergeometer.wordpress.com > [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]