[Alta-Logic] Fwd: Leicester Pure Maths crisis

[Kristine Bauer]

Hi everyone,

I thought this letter from Simona Paoli about the (re)current situation at Leicester would be of interest to folks on this mailing list.  In short: Leicester is once again threatening to close down the pure mathematics research group, eliminating a number of positions and converting the remaining ones to teaching-only positions.  See details in the attached email.


Dr. Kristine Bauer
Calgary Site Director, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
University of Calgary



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From: simona.paoli at virgilio.it<mailto:simona.paoli at virgilio.it>
Subject: Leicester Pure Maths crisis
Date: February 2, 2021 at 7:59:09 AM MST
To: "wit at groupes.epfl.ch<mailto:wit at groupes.epfl.ch>" <wit at groupes.epfl.ch<mailto:wit at groupes.epfl.ch>>

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Dear All,

  many of you have probably already heard of the terrible situation at the University of Leicester, where the whole of the Pure mathematics group (in the School of Mathematics and Actuarial Science) consisting of eight research active members of staff are at risk of redundancy. More details about this can be found on our petition page, where you can sign and comment to express your support:

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/mathematics-is-not-redundant

I would like to highlight a couple of points about this situation which I think are particularly relevant to this mailing list:

Our group is extremely active in areas which are of particular interest to this list: algebra, algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, category theory, differential geometry.

Further, the only research active women with a full-time permanent position in our School are in the Pure Mathematics group (two at present, three in the original redundancy pool consisting of nine people, before one recently left). If the VC plans go through, there will be no women left in full time permanent positions in Mathematics at Leicester allowed to do research.

Both myself and my female colleagues in our School have been very active in promoting women in mathematics. Our loss will therefore indirectly impact the younger female mathematicians in the scientific community that we would like to continue to support but will no longer be able to if we are made redundant.

We would be extremely grateful for your support. Do not hesitate to contact me directly if you would like further elucidations.

Best wishes,

Simona

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Dr Simona Paoli
Associate Professor
School of Mathematics and Actuarial Science, University of Leicester, UK.

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