{"id":11581,"date":"2020-01-27T18:09:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T23:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=11581"},"modified":"2020-01-27T19:25:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T00:25:18","slug":"london-calling-with-career-opportunities-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=11581","title":{"rendered":"London Calling with Career Opportunities II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a mathematician, you don&#8217;t need to go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=11537\">work for Dominic Cummings<\/a> in order to have dramatically improved career opportunities in the UK.  The British government has just announced a huge increase in funding for mathematical research: 60 million pounds\/year (or about \\$80 million dollars) for the next five years (see <a href=\"https:\/\/epsrc.ukri.org\/newsevents\/news\/major-funding-boost-for-mathematical-sciences\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/boost-for-uk-science-with-unlimited-visa-offer-to-worlds-brightest-and-best\">here<\/a>).  To get some idea of the scale of this, note that the US GDP is about 8 times the UK&#8217;s and the NSF DMS budget is about \\$240 million\/year.  So the comparable scale of this funding in the US would be about two and a half times the NSF budget for mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>Many of my mathematician colleagues have sometimes seemed to me to be of the opinion that a huge increase in funding for math research is the best way to improve a society.  We&#8217;ll see if this works for Britain.<\/p>\n<p>While the new UK government ran on a nativist platform of restricting immigration, with the goal of keeping outsiders from taking bread out of the mouths of UK citizens, this doesn&#8217;t apply to mathematicians: all limits are off and we&#8217;re encouraged to flood the country.  The law will be changed on Friday, changes go into effect Feb. 20. This will include an &#8220;accelerated path to settlement&#8221;, no need to even have a job offer, and all your &#8220;dependents [will] have full access to the labour market&#8221;, no problem with them and the taking the bread out of the mouths of the locals thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/why-dominic-cummings-is-investing-in-maths-8klcxbjcd\">here<\/a> (except it&#8217;s mostly behind a paywall, but evidently Ivan Fesenko is quoted).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a mathematician, you don&#8217;t need to go work for Dominic Cummings in order to have dramatically improved career opportunities in the UK. 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