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Date: Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 4:56 AM<br>Subject: Informe sobre la corrupcion en Exactas – Parte 31<br>To: "<a href="mailto:presidencia@conicet.gov.ar">presidencia@conicet.gov.ar</a>" <<a href="mailto:presidencia@conicet.gov.ar">presidencia@conicet.gov.ar</a>>, <a href="mailto:FulbrightNEXUS@iie.org">FulbrightNEXUS@iie.org</a>, <a href="mailto:info@fundacionsadosky.org.ar">info@fundacionsadosky.org.ar</a>, <a href="mailto:info@mincyt.gob.ar">info@mincyt.gob.ar</a>, <a href="mailto:prensa@mincyt.gov.ar">prensa@mincyt.gov.ar</a>, <a href="mailto:prensa@me.gov.ar">prensa@me.gov.ar</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style>Nota. Hugo </span>Scolnik recluto a J.P.Paz y Pablo
Jacovkis para rajarme y yo ser reemplazado por su mujer Irene Loiseau que
dictaba una materia copiada de la mia llamada Algoritmos 3 en el dpto de
computacion. La siguiente carta a colegas de mi especialidad (Investigacion
Operativa) sirven de antecedentes y circunstancias para que mis colegas
entiendan las maniobras ocultas de los mafiosos de Exactas.</i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:right" align="right"><span lang="EN-US">Buenos Aires, December 2, 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear
colleagues:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">Subject:
The rules of the game</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Excuse me
if I am disturbing you again. This is one of a series of articles which I
intend to compile into a single booklet. Each article is called a <i>canto</i> because in my first article the
very first words are: <span><i><span>Lasciate ogni speranza</span>, <span>voi</span></i> <i>ch'entrate</i></span>. The book will be entitled <i>The academic inferno</i>. Canto XXXI follows.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">After
working 25 years as an Operations Research practitioner I entered the
University of Buenos Aires (UBA) as an assistant professor at the math
department. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">UBA
has 13 schools (facultades): Medicine, Engineering, Law, etc. One of them, the
School of Exact Sciences, contains 12 departments: Physics,<span> </span>Computer Science, Mathematics, etc. The math
dept has 60 full-time professors, all of them pure mathematicians.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">As
soon as I landed in the academy, I was schooled in the rules of the game.
Firstly, and most important, you should write papers to peer-reviewed journals.
Secondly, you should submit requests for research grants to ANPCYT the
government agency for the promotion of science and technology. Third, you should
attend scientific meetings, etc </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">The
number of papers should be as large as possible (the content is not
essential).<span> </span>The grant's amount should be
as big as possible. Travelling to academic meetings in the USA or Europe are
preferred to those taking place in the banana republic. These items will serve
to inflate your CV.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">Once
in a while the math dept convokes a contest (concurso) on each subject:
Calculus, Algebra, Topology, etc. But, pure mathematicians do not know what applied
mathematics is, I mean, they have never applied mathematics to solve problems in
the real world, so they will call for the catchall subject "Applied
Mathematics"</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">At
one time I entered the contest on applied mathematics. There were two candidates,
namely John Doe, a youthful fellow half my age, who had already concocted 22
papers on differential equations, and myself, 60 years old with no papers at
all. Doe scored 22 goals to naught, and won the contest. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">In
spite of my defeat I was permitted for a while to lecture on OR-related
subjects in the math dept, mainly because I was the only applied mathematician.
Also I did some moonlighting as OR consultant for industrial firms, and took my
students to manufacturing plants as assistants.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">But
OR is also taught in the computer science dept where the students are indoctrinated
with the art of paper-making. Dr Hugo Scolnik was the chairman of the computer
dept, and he was displeased with my OR practicality in his absolute domain
where he had six professors (his wife included) industriously writing papers.<span> </span>He deviously planned to terminate my contract,
and I was kicked out from the school while lecturing combinatorial optimization
(algo 3). Having nothing to do I am writing this book on academic corruption
which I will dedicate to the s.o.b. </span><span lang="EN-US">as a mark of respect and affection.<span style="color:blue"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">Sincerely,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">Fabio
Vicentini</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">OR
consultant </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Este es el 31st articulo de una
serie cuyo objetivo final es compilarla en un libro sobre la corrupcion en la
FCEyN.</span></p>
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