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| Our concerns about the arrest of Abbas Edalat in Iran | Our concerns about the arrest of Abbas Edalat in Iran |
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| We are 129 members of the academic community in the United Kingdom and beyond, including Austria, China, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the US, working at the forefront of computer science, mathematics and machine learning. | We are 129 members of the academic community in the United Kingdom and beyond, including Austria, China, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the US, working at the forefront of computer science, mathematics and machine learning. |
| We are deeply concerned about the arrest of our colleague, Professor Abbas Edalat, in Iran (Report, 3 May). | We are deeply concerned about the arrest of our colleague, Professor Abbas Edalat, in Iran (Report, 3 May). |
| Many of us have known Abbas for decades as a kind, caring, decent and honourable man, of great intellect and integrity. | Many of us have known Abbas for decades as a kind, caring, decent and honourable man, of great intellect and integrity. |
| It is particularly surprising that Abbas was arrested specifically in Iran. He deeply respects his own rich heritage, background and ethnicity, and we have heard him say only positive things about the Iranian nation and people. He has always been ready to express his love for his native country. | It is particularly surprising that Abbas was arrested specifically in Iran. He deeply respects his own rich heritage, background and ethnicity, and we have heard him say only positive things about the Iranian nation and people. He has always been ready to express his love for his native country. |
| In addition to being a prominent academic, making fundamental contributions to mathematical logic and theoretical computer science, Abbas has worked ceaselessly to bridge the gap in technology, education and development between the developed and developing worlds. | In addition to being a prominent academic, making fundamental contributions to mathematical logic and theoretical computer science, Abbas has worked ceaselessly to bridge the gap in technology, education and development between the developed and developing worlds. |
| Abbas has taught many generations of students at Imperial College. Some of us have written our PhD dissertations under his supervision. Many of us owe Abbas our own achievements in computer science, mathematics and machine learning – strategic areas of research for the United Kingdom and for the world – through his generous teaching, advice, and truly visionary thought leadership over many decades. | Abbas has taught many generations of students at Imperial College. Some of us have written our PhD dissertations under his supervision. Many of us owe Abbas our own achievements in computer science, mathematics and machine learning – strategic areas of research for the United Kingdom and for the world – through his generous teaching, advice, and truly visionary thought leadership over many decades. |
| In addition to inflicting inexplicable suffering on our colleague, teacher and friend, Abbas’s detention is causing a lot of harm to the academic community in the United Kingdom, in Iran and worldwide. | In addition to inflicting inexplicable suffering on our colleague, teacher and friend, Abbas’s detention is causing a lot of harm to the academic community in the United Kingdom, in Iran and worldwide. |
| By signing this letter, we are not trying to make a political statement or influence international affairs one way or another. We are expressing concern for our colleague, teacher and friend. | By signing this letter, we are not trying to make a political statement or influence international affairs one way or another. We are expressing concern for our colleague, teacher and friend. |
| We are all extremely concerned about Abbas’s situation and would humbly solicit all those who can help to facilitate his release.Prof Samson Abramsky, FRS, Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing, Fellow, Wolfson College, University of OxfordProf V. Michele Abrusci, Professore Ordinario, Logica e Filosofia della Scienza, Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università Roma TreProf Luca Aceto, Professor, School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, IcelandProf Marcello D’Agostino, Professor of Logic, Department of Philosophy, Head of Doctoral School in Philosophy and Human Sciences, University of Milan, ItalyProf Fabio Alessi, Associate Professor, University of Udine, ItalyIgnacio Fábregas Alfaro, IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, SpainDr. Mauricio Alvarez-Manilla, Quantitative Modeller; Prof Abbas Edalat’s former PhD studentProf Davide Ancona, Associate Professor at Dipartimento di Informatica, Bioingegneria, Robotica e Ingegneria dei Sistemi (DIBRIS), Università of Genova, ItalyProf Bruno Apolloni, Full Professor in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, the Milan University, ItalyDr. Rob Arthan, Visiting Academic, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of LondonProf Andrea Asperti, Department of Informatics, Science & Engineering (DISI), Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di BolognaProf Gianfranco Balbo, Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Torino, ItalyProf Stefano Baratella, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Trento, ItalyProf Franco Barbanera, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (DMI), University of Catania, ItalyProf Lev D. Beklemishev, Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, RussiaProf Alessandro Berarducci, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di PisaDr. Martin Berger, Lecturer in Foundations of Computation (Informatics), University of SussexDr. Ulrich Berger, Reader at the Department of Computer Science, Swansea UniversityDr. Paul Alexander Bilokon, Lecturer in Machine Learning, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London; Founder and CEO, Thalesians Ltd; Prof Abbas Edalat’s former PhD studentDr. Daniela Briola, Researcher at University of Milan Bicocca, DISCO department, Italy.Prof Alan Bundy, FRS, CBE, FREng, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.Dr. Peter Buneman, FRS, FRSE, FACM, Professor of Database Systems, University of EdinburghProf Olivia Caramello, Assistant Professor, University of Insubria – Como, ItalyDr. Giuliano Casale, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing, Imperial College LondonProf Alessandra Cherubini, Full Professor of Algebra, Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di MilanoProf Agata Ciabattoni, Vienna University of Technology, AustriaProf Nicoletta Cocco, DAIS – Ca’ Foscari University, ItalyProf Roberto Di Cosmo, Computer Science Professor, on leave at INRIA from IRIF/University Paris DiderotProf Jim Cunningham, Reader Emeritus, and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Computing, Imperial College LondonProf Pierre-Louis Curien, Director of Research at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), FranceProf Ferruccio Damiani, Associate Professor, Coordinator of the MoVeRe research group, Dipartimento di Informatica - Università degli Studi di TorinoProf Anuj Dawar, Professor of Logic and Algorithms, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of CambridgeProf George Danezis, Professor of Security and Privacy Engineering, University College LondonProf Pierpaolo Degano, Full Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Pisa, ItalyProf Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Departimento di Informatica, Università di TorinoProf Susanna Donatelli, Full Professor of Computer Science, University of Torino, ItalyProf Gilles Dowek, researcher at Inria at the LSV, professeur attaché at the ENS Paris-Saclay, FranceDr. Serdar Erbatur, IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, SpainDr. Martín Hötzel Escardó, Reader in Theoretical Computer Science, School of Computer Science, University of BirminghamProf Lorenzo Tortora de Falco, Associate Professor of Logic, Università Roma Tre, ItalyProf José Fiadeiro, Professor of Computer Science and Head of Department, Royal Holloway University of London, UK; member of Academia EuropaeaDr. Nicola Gambino, Associate Professor in Pure Mathematics, School of Mathematics, University of LeedsProf Giangiacomo Gerla, Department of Mathematics, Università degli Studi di SalernoProf Silvia Ghilezan, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, SerbiaProf Roberto Giacobazzi, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Verona, ItalyProf Pietro Di Gianantonio, Associate Professor, University of Udine, ItalyDr. Anandha Gopalan, Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Computing, Imperial College LondonProf Roberto Gorrieri, Dipartimento di Informatica – Scienza e Ingegneria, Università di Bologna, ItalyDr. Matthew Hague, Reader and EPSRC Early Career Fellow, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway University of LondonAnn Halford, Research Group Administrator, Department of Computing, Imperial College London Prof Dr. Reiko Heckel, Professor in Software Engineering, Head of Computer Science, Department of Informatics, University of LeicesterDr. Chris Heunen, Senior Research Fellow, Quantum Informatics, School of Informatics, University of EdinburghProf Jane Hillston, FRSE, Director of Research and Head of School Designate, School of Informatics, University of EdinburghProf Edward A. Hirsch, Research Lead, Laboratory of Mathematical Logic, Steklov Institute of Mathematics at St. PetersburgProf Furio Honsell, Full Professor, University of Udine, ItalyProf Hykel Hosni, Associate Professor in Logic at the University of Milan, ItalyProf Michael Huth, Professor of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computing, Imperial College LondonProf J. M. E. Hyland, Professor of Mathematical Logic, University of CambridgeProf Marina Jirotka, Professor of Human Centred Computing, Department of Computer Science, University of OxfordProf Peter Johnstone, Emeritus Professor of the Foundations of Mathematics, University of CambridgeProf Cliff Jones, Professor of Computing Science at the Newcastle UniversityProf Achim Jung, Professor of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham; member of the Birmingham Theory GroupDr. Michal Konečný, Lecturer in Computer Science, Aston UniversityProf Alexander Kurz, Professor of Computer Science, University of LeicesterProf Robert Kowalski, Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Fellow, Department of Computing, Imperial College LondonProf Marta Zofia Kwiatkowska, Professor of Computing Systems, Fellow, Trinity College, University of OxfordProf Jimmie Lawson, Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State UniversityProf Marina Lenisa, Associate Professor, University of Udine, ItalyProf Giacomo Lenzi, Department of Mathematics, Università degli Studi di SalernoDr. Paul Blain Levy, Reader in Theoretical Computer Science, University of BirminghamProf Ugo de’Liguoro, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, ItalyProf Paolo Lipparini, Mathematics Department, University of Tor Vergata Rome, ItalyDr. John Longley, Lecturer, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh; Member of Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Director of QualityProf Alberto Marcone, Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Informatiche e Fisiche, Università di UdineProf Simone Martini, Professor of Computer Science, Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di BolognaProf Viviana Mascardi, DIBRIS – Dipartimento di Informatica, Bioingegneria, Robotica e Ingegneria dei Sistemi, Università Degli Studi di Genova, ItalyProf Andrea Masini, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, ItalyProf Marino Miculan, Associate Professor, University of Udine, ItalyProf Michael W. Mislove, Pendergraft Herbert Buchanan Professor, Deparment of Mathematics, Tulane University; Professor and Chairman, Computer Science Department, Tulane University, USProf Eugenio Moggi, Professor of Computer Science, the University of Genoa, ItalyProf Faron Moller, FLSW, Department of Computer Science, Swansea UniversityProf Sara Negri, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Helsinki, FinlandDr. Luke Ong, Professor of Computer Science, University of OxfordProf Catuscia Palamidessi, Director of Research at INRIA, France, Leader of the equipe ComèteDr. Giuseppe Perelli, Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of OxfordProf Giuseppe Persiano, Professor of Computer Science, University of Salerno, ItalyProf Rossella Petreschi, Dipartimento di Informatica, Sapienza, Università di Roma, ItalyProf Mario Piazza, Full Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics, Scuola Normale Superiore, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, Pisa, ItalyProf Andrew M. Pitts, Professor of Theoretical Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of CambridgeProf Gordon Plotkin, FRS, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, School of Informatics, The University of EdinburghDr. Giuseppe Primiero, Department of Computer Science, Middlesex University LondonDr. Maurizio Proietti, Senior Researcher, Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica “A. Ruberti” Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IASI-CNR), Rome, ItalyProf Davide Quaglia, Computer Engineer and PhD, Assistant Professor Dip. Di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Verona, ItalyDr. Bernhard Reus, Senior Lecturer, Department of Informatics, University of SussexProf Romeo Rizzi, Associate Professor, Operations Research, University of Verona, ItalyProf Edmund Robinson, Professor of Computer Science, Head of Theory Group, Queen Mary, University of LondonProf Simona Ronchi Della Rocca, Full Professor of Foundations of Computer Science, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di TorinoProf Bill Roscoe, FREng, Professor and former Head of Department, Computer Science, University of OxfordProf Giuseppe Rosolini, Professor of Mathematical Logic, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Genova, ItalyDr. Sasha Rubin, Postdoctoral Researcher in Computer Science, ASTREA Laboratory, University of Naples “Federico II”, ItalyProf Berc Rustem, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computing, Imperial College LondonProf Mark Ryan, Professor of Computer Security, University of BirminghamProf Giovanni Sambin, Professor of Mathematical Logic, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Padova, ItalyProf Donald Sannella, FRSE, Professor of Computer Science, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, School of Informatics, University of EdinburghProf Giuseppe Scollo, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli Studi Catania, ItalyProf Dana S. Scott, FBA, FNAS, FAAS, ACM, Emeritus Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University; winner of the ACM Turing Award, USAProf Donia Scott, Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of SussexDr. Monika Seisenberger, Associate Professor in Theoretical Computer Science, Swansea UniversityProf dr. Alex Simpson, Professor of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, SloveniaProf Aaron Sloman, Honorary Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science School of Computer Science, The University of BirminghamAlexander V. Smal, Laboratory of Mathematical Logic, Steklov Institute of Mathematics at St. Petersburg, RussiaProf Luca Spada, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Salerno, ItalyDr. Iain Stark, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, The University of EdinburghProf Kostas Stathis, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of LondonProf Sam Staton, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of OxfordProf Perdita Stevens, Professor of Mathematics of Software Engineering, University of Edinburgh; former colleague of Prof Abbas EdalatProf Dr. Thomas Streicher, Professor of Mathematics at Technische Universität Darmstadt, GermanyProf Walid Mohamed Taha, Professor of Computer Science at the School of Information Technology, Halmstad University, SwedenDr. Paul Taylor, Author, Mathematician, and Computer Scientist, University of Birmingham (honorary), formerly Imperial College LondonProf Carlo Toffalori, Professor, Università di Camerino, ItalyProf Paolo Turrini, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, the University of WarwickProf Giorgio Valentini, Professor of Computer Science, University of Milan, ItalyProf Daniele Varacca, Professor of Computer Science, Université Paris Est – Créteil, FranceProf Matteo Viale, Associate Professor in Mathematical Logic, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di TorinoDr. Steve Vickers, Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, University of BirminghamDr. Mark Wheelhouse, Senior Teaching Fellow, 2nd Year Coordinator, Department of Computing, Imperial College London; colleague of Prof Abbas EdalatDr. Graham White, Senior Lecturer, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of LondonProf Glynn Winskel, Professor of Computer Science, University of CambridgeProf Martin Ziegler, Associate Professor, Complexity and Real Computation Lab, KAIST School of Computing, Daejeon, Korea | |
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