Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:08:15 -0500
From: Andre Scedrov <scedrov@math.upenn.edu>
To: ruy@cin.ufpe.br
Cc: scedrov@math.upenn.edu
Subject: Re: RUY DE QUEIROZ reconsideration

Dear Ruy: 

For your information. 

  Best, 

  Andre

==> On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 Andre Scedrov wrote:
>Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:40:59 -0500 (EST)
>From: Andre Scedrov <scedrov@math.upenn.edu>
>To: laender@dcc.ufmg.br, celso@inf.puc-rio.br, lucchesi@dcc.unicamp.br,
>   flavio@inf.ufrgs.br, pacca@tci.ufal.br, jcmaldon@icmc.sc.usp.br,
>   virgilio@dcc.ufmg.br
>CC: scedrov@math.upenn.edu
>Subject: RUY DE QUEIROZ reconsideration
>
>
>                          January 20, 2007
>
>
>To Whom It May Concern: 
>
>
>I am very happy to write on behalf of PROFESSOR RUY DE QUEIROZ in support of
>his application to the Brazilian Research Council (CNPq) for reconsideration
>of renewal of his research grant. Professor de Queiroz is very visible 
>internationally. He has a high international standing and his academic work
>in logic has made a significant impact. Professor de Queiroz was awarded 
>a prestigious Tinker Visiting Professorship at Stanford University in 2006
>and was honored with an executive editorship of a scientific journal, Logic 
>Journal of the IGPL, published by Oxford University Press. Professor de 
>Queiroz was an editor of a volume, "Logic for Concurrency and Synchronisation",
>published in 2003 in the series "Trends in Logic" by Kluwer. He is regularly
>a guest editor of special issues of very higly rated journals such as 
>Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, Theoretical Computer Science, and
>Information and Computation. These special issues contain a selection of 
>papers presented at the Workshops on Logic, Language, Information and 
>Computation (WoLLIC), which Professor de Queiroz has very ably organized 
>for a number of years. 
>
>WoLLIC is an important and very high quality international workshop 
>series with very good international standing. Under Professor de Queiroz's 
>leadership, WoLLIC is making a significant contribution to the 
>international research community of logic and computation at large. 
>WoLLIC is making a particularly important contribution in connecting
>international and Brazilian researchers with each other. WoLLIC is the
>leading forum in this regard in logic and computation.  
>
>Professor Ruy de Queiroz and his application for research grant renewal have 
>my very strong support indeed. 
>
>                            Sincerely yours,
>
>                            Andre Scedrov
>                            Professor of Mathematics
>                            Professor of Computer and Information Science
>                            University of Pennsylvania 
>
>
>