From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/10516 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Coecke Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: PhD positions at Leicester, UK Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 10:30:23 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Bob Coecke Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.20\)) 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="38994"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: "categories@mta.ca" Original-X-From: majordomo@rr.mta.ca Sat Jun 12 03:44:12 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 1lrsh1-0009we-Db for gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2021 03:44:11 +0200 Original-Received: from rr.mta.ca ([198.164.44.159]:33692) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1lrsgM-0005dU-Bm; Fri, 11 Jun 2021 22:43:30 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by rr.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.92.1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrsg0-0002aj-0s for categories-list@rr.mta.ca; Fri, 11 Jun 2021 22:43:08 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.science.mathematics.categories:10516 Archived-At: The company am Chief Scientist of was this week in the news: = https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2021/06/08/honeywell-quantum-sol= utions-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=E2=80=99s 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. =20 I wrote those dudes making the decissions in Leicester about all of = this, but they didn=E2=80=99t 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=E2=80=99s not that we = lost the fight, we didn=E2=80=99t 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 = wrote: >=20 > 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. >=20 > Best regards > Phillip-Jan van Zyl >=20 [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]