[CPM-SPIRE-L] Fwd: Petition to save Foundations of CS at Leicester

[Zsuzsanna Lipták]

(Apologies if you receive this email several times.)

Please consider signing this petition against some raving burocrat's crazy
decision to close down (!) foundations of computing and pure maths at Uni
of Leicester and lay off up to 20 people, including some of the top
scientists in algorithms.

Zsuzsanna Lipták
University of Verona
Italy


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From: Thomas Erlebach <t.erlebach at mcs.le.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, Feb 5, 2021, 08:01
Subject: Petition to save Foundations of CS at Leicester
To: THEORYNT at LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU <THEORYNT at listserv.nodak.edu>


Dear all,

We would like to ask for support from the community against the threat
of redundancy to staff in Foundations of Computer Science at University
of Leicester. Please consider signing this petition and leaving a comment:

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

Some background: University of Leicester is currently implementing a
"Shaping for Excellence" plan that aims to make at least 60 people
redundant. As part of this, the University wants to get rid of all 8 staff
in pure maths and of all (up to 10, exact number to be determined) staff
in Foundations of Computer Science whose past (!) research is not
deemed to be close enough to the new priority areas of Artificial
Intelligence, Data Mining, Computational Modelling and Digitalisation.
This is based on the short-sighted and ill-informed view that theoretical
research is not useful and not needed for the new strategic directions.

It would be great if you could sign the petition and possibly forward the
link to your colleagues and others in your networks who may not yet have
received it.

Thanks,

Thomas

P.S.: Here is a separate petition for supporting our colleagues in
Mathematics:
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/mathematics-is-not-redundant

P.P.S: Apologies if you receive this message several times via different
channels.
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