2 Jul
2013
2 Jul
'13
1:22 p.m.
Aderisco.
--
Luca Di Persio - PhD
assistant professor of
Probability and Mathematical Finance
Dept. Informatics University of Verona
strada le Grazie 15 - 37134 Verona - Italy
Tel : +39 045 802 7968
Dept. Math University of Trento
V. Sommarive, 14 - 38123 Povo - Italy
Tel : +39 0461 281686
Il giorno 02/lug/2013 13:05, pellegri@mat.uniroma3.it ha scritto:
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> Caro Claudio,
> aderisco all'appello
> Alessandro Pellegrinotti
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> Quoting claudio procesi procesi@mat.uniroma1.it:
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> > cari colleghi, vi mando una copia di una lettera ricevuta da due
> > Matematici ed accademici Russi, non so cosa possiamo fare oltre a
> > farla circolare. Forse sottoscrivere una lettera da inviare
> > all'indirizzo che ci mandano. La lettera potrebbe essere del tipo
> >
> > Dear Minister, we hear from our distinguished colleagues that it is
> > in act a deep transformation of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
> >
> >
> > We do not want to enter into the details of this plan but want to
> > firmly stress the fact that, when touching such old and
> > distinguished institutions, one should do it with extreme care and
> > full involvement of the scientific community. Such reforms, when
> > done only by bureaucrats and politicians destroy traditions and do
> > not build anything useful for the future. Needless to say that, even
> > in the most obscure years of the past, the academic institutions of
> > Russia and the Soviet Union have always carried a high and unique
> > scholarly tradition.
> >
> > We hope that hasty and not well planned "reforms" will not destroy
> > what centuries of scholarly work has built. Sincerely yours
> > firme
> >
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> > se volete aderire mandatemi una mail con nome cognome e titolo
> > accademico, che io possa facilmente copiare ed incollare.
> >
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> > COPY:
> >
> > Moscow, June 29, 2013
> >
> > Dear Professor Procesi,
> >
> > On Thursday, June 27, 2013 the Russian Government unexpectedly
> > discussed and approved the draft law on liquidation of the Russian
> > Academy of Sciences founded in 1725 and on creating on its basis a
> > new public organization. All the existing institutions of our
> > Academy are offered to move away from the new organization, to
> > subordinate them to a special administrative Government agency, and
> > to subject to a selection compliant with certain conditions defined
> > solely by this agency. A very negative experience of such a
> > selection made by Government officials was demonstrated last fall
> > during monitoring of the educational institutions in Russia. Many
> > popular and highly reputed universities have been declared
> > ineffective according to the rules that in fact have little to do
> > with assessing real scientific level.
> >
> > Another unpleasant aspect of this situation is that the draft law,
> > which fundamentally changes the system of science organization in
> > Russia, has been prepared and examined without discussion with the
> > scientific community. Even the public structures created by the
> > Ministry of Education and Science for consultations with the
> > representatives of the scientific community have not been involved
> > in a discussion of the draft law and have not been informed on its
> > existence. The Academy also has not been informed on the existence
> > of the project.
> >
> > This law has already been submitted to the Parliament of the Russian
> > Federation and is asked to be approved on the next week. After the
> > acceptance of this law, a liquidation process of the Academy should
> > be completed within three months.
> >
> > We ask you to express your opinion about the destruction of the
> > Russian Academy of Sciences. You can send it to the address of the
> > Department of Mathematics of the Academy (with a copy to us)
> > om@ras.ru. Unfortunately, the matter is urgent.
> >
> > We would be very grateful for your support in this difficult for
> > science in Russia time.
> >
> >
> > A. N.
> Parshin,
> >
> > V. L.Popov
> >
> >
> >
> > Claudio Procesi, Professore Emerito,
> >
> > Dipartimento di Matematica, G. Castelnuovo
> >
> > Membro dell'Accademia dei Lincei
> >
> > Università di Roma La Sapienza, piazzale A. Moro 00185,
> > Roma, Italia
> > fax 0039-06-44701007
> > http://www.mat.uniroma1.it/~procesi/
> >
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