CAUTION: The Sender of this email is not from within Dalhousie. For what it's worth, we should point out the elephant in the room: "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 — to do teaching, but not research. He and his flunkies claim: […] to ensure a future research identity in AI, computational modelling, digitalisation and data science requires ceasing research in Pure Mathematics […]" (source: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2021/01/problems_at_the_university_of.h...) "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 “meet the rising market demand of artificial intelligence, computational modelling, digitalisation and data science”. 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-university-leices...) And as a result: https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/11533/Global-boycott-of-University-of-Leicest... If someone can update us on the status of the various category theorists and allies it would be very useful. Thanks, David David Roberts Webpage: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/David+Roberts Blog: https://thehighergeometer.wordpress.com On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 09:56, Crole, Roy L. (Dr.) <rlc3@leicester.ac.uk> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
Please see below for new PhD positions
https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/funded-opportunities/informatics-gta...
Kind regards,
Roy Crole.
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