From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/10513 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steve Vickers Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: PhD positions at Leicester, UK Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:16:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Steve Vickers Mime-Version: 1.0 (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="16089"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: To: David Roberts Original-X-From: majordomo@rr.mta.ca Sat Jun 12 03:38:59 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 1lrsbx-0003z0-AG for gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2021 03:38:57 +0200 Original-Received: from rr.mta.ca ([198.164.44.159]:33626) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1lrsav-0004gu-Gv; Fri, 11 Jun 2021 22:37:53 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by rr.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.92.1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrsaY-0002Q8-To for categories-list@rr.mta.ca; Fri, 11 Jun 2021 22:37:30 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.science.mathematics.categories:10513 Archived-At: One of the ironies =E2=80=A6 No, I=E2=80=99m being polite. One of the partic= ular stupidities of the plans is that Leicester has always had close connect= ions between CS and pure maths. Simona Paoli, one of the main category theor= ists in pure maths there, founded the Yorkshire and Midlands Category Theory= Seminar, YaMCATS, which involved their CS department and now includes the S= chool of CS at Birmingham. That=E2=80=99s an existing research strength of Leicester that has a role to= play even in the envisaged =E2=80=9Cfuture research identity=E2=80=9D, yet t= he plans are to kill it off. The VC, Prof. Nishan Canagarajah, is an engineer whose field is multimedia s= ignal processing: so it seems clear that these plans are his baby. But his d= reams are blinding him to the organic reality of the Leicester University th= at he is supposed to be leading. Steve Vickers. > On 10 Jun 2021, at 02:38, droberts.65537@gmail.com wrote: >=20 > =EF=BB=BFFor what it's worth, we should point out the elephant in the room= : >=20 > "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_univ= ersity_of.html) >=20 > "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-univer= sity-leicester) >=20 > And as a result: > https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/11533/Global-boycott-of-University-of-Leice= ster-begins-today >=20 > If someone can update us on the status of the various category > theorists and allies it would be very useful. >=20 > Thanks, >=20 > David >=20 [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]