From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/10517 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "ronnie.profbrown" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Leicester Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 14:04:38 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: "ronnie.profbrown" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8278"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Peter May , "categories@mta.ca" Original-X-From: majordomo@rr.mta.ca Sat Jun 12 03:46:15 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 1lrsj0-0001wZ-3Y for gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2021 03:46:14 +0200 Original-Received: from rr.mta.ca ([198.164.44.159]:33714) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1lrsiP-0005y0-Pc; Fri, 11 Jun 2021 22:45:37 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by rr.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.92.1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrshy-0002fR-BP for categories-list@rr.mta.ca; Fri, 11 Jun 2021 22:45:10 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.science.mathematics.categories:10517 Archived-At: When the maths department at Bangor was taken over by Electronic Engineering, they had expertise in error correction engineering, but I did not notice any special interest in categorical methods, though we made some lectures available. The idea that such departments can develop expertise in an area they have not worked in should arouse academic questioning. Ronnie Brown ------ Original Message ------ From: "Peter May" To: "categories@mta.ca" Sent: Thursday, 10 Jun, 2021 At 02:59 Subject: categories: Leicester Following up on David Roberts:?? I am in close contact with a truly excellent category theorist who, until recently, was at Leicester. It is not just a proposal: action has been taken, and she is no longer employed there.?? The sheer hypocrisy of claiming to seek excellence by downgrading to teaching only positions is transparent, as is the sheer ignorance of the interplay of mathematics and related areas of application. Peter [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]