There is a threat of effective closure for the mathematics department in Cardiff. There is a danger to mathematics everywhere from the thrust towards AI even though AI would not exist without the mathematics that underpins the methods there. I am forwarding more information via links to an article and also to the Open Letter that has been sent by the President of the London Mathematical Society. (The message was forwarded to me by Prof. David Evans of Cardiff.) Please sign if you feel you can support Cardiff, and also share it around in your own universities. Thanks, Tim ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: David Evans <EvansDE@cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:EvansDE@cardiff.ac.uk>> There is a crisis in mathematics at Cardiff with the university plan of reduction of pure and applied mathematics faculty from 30 to 15-10 as well as reducing the number of mathematics students. The LMS are leading the resistance and I am forwarding below a message from the President. I hope that you will consider signing this open letter mentioned by him. Some details about the situation are here https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education/cardiff-university-planned-cuts... Best wishes David Evans FLSW [please sign this petition and forward on to your professional network] Urgent support for colleagues at Cardiff University Dear Colleague, I am writing to you in my role as President of the London Mathematical Society and Chair of the Campaign for the Mathematical Sciences. Cardiff University is threatening up to half of its staff in pure and applied mathematics with compulsory redundancy, despite the department returning a significant surplus to the university. As part of our campaign to avert these redundancies, we are now launching an open letter which can be viewed here: https://tinyurl.com/2vjxurb9 If you are supportive and would like to sign, please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/bqwZXMkajEVbucWe7 Your name should then automatically appear on the letter (refresh the form). Feel free to forward this message to your professional network. With many thanks for your support. Best wishes, Jens Professor Jens Marklof FRS Henry Overton Wills Chair, University of Bristol President, London Mathematical Society Chair, Campaign for the Mathematical Sciences You're receiving this message because you're a member of the Categories mailing list group from Macquarie University. To take part in this conversation, reply all to this message. View group files<https://outlook.office365.com/owa/categories@mq.edu.au/groupsubscription.ashx?source=EscalatedMessage&action=files&GuestId=6bf90c14-94d1-45b7-a0b5-9dd447734d27> | Leave group<https://outlook.office365.com/owa/categories@mq.edu.au/groupsubscription.ashx?source=EscalatedMessage&action=leave&GuestId=6bf90c14-94d1-45b7-a0b5-9dd447734d27> | Learn more about Microsoft 365 Groups<https://aka.ms/o365g>