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Sarah Bridle
Joined: 24 Sep 2004
Posts: 149
Affiliation: University College London (UCL)
Posted: December 22 2007
As you may already have heard, there is a funding crisis in the UK research council that funds astronomy and particle physics, STFC.
Here is a good summary:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7173/full/4501127b.html
There is a petition to the UK Prime Minister on the official Government website here:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Physics-Funding
, requesting the cuts to be reversed.
Sarah
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Sarah Bridle
Joined: 24 Sep 2004
Posts: 149
Affiliation: University College London (UCL)
Posted: January 04 2008
For those interested: thanks to Nick Wright for pointing out Paul Crowther's useful summary of the situation here
http://pacrowther.staff.shef.ac.uk/stfc.html
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