Re: PhD positions at Leicester, UK

[Bob Coecke <bob.coecke@cs.ox.ac.uk>]

The company am Chief Scientist of was this week in the news:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2021/06/08/honeywell-quantum-solutions-and-cambridge-quantum-computing-merge-and-plan-to-go-public-by-end-of-year/
and I can confirm that most mathematicians in my personal team and in Ross Duncan’s team are not only pure, but need to have some category theory background, and the same is true for the physicists and computer scientists.  In fact there is a cross-company reading courdse going on about string diagrams.  

I wrote those dudes making the decissions in Leicester about all of this, but they didn’t care.  I think that it is not an isolated thing in Leicester, but much more widespread, and we are all guilty.  We were too busy in our own corners while the university management structures were exploding and taking control.  It’s not that we lost the fight, we didn’t even give them one, and now it is too late.  I am mostly talking about what I witnessed in the UK having been a UK academic for twenty years, and that decay contributed big time to me recently leaving academia.  In Oxford where I was it happenend a bit slower than in other places, but now parts of uni have gone rotten too there, and I experienced that the hard way.

> On 10 Jun 2021, at 19:32, Phillip-Jan van Zyl <mikorym@protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 training serves me better than anything else may have served me.
> 
> Best regards
> Phillip-Jan van Zyl
> 

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