"Dear all,
I am writing this to inform you that the Institute for Geometry and its Applications (IGA) is coming to an end. As the IGA does not meet the requirements to be a University Research Centre it can no longer continue, even in name. Consequently the IGA webpage will disappear along with the University of Adelaide website early in the new year."
You might think that has something to do with the completion next month of the merger of South Australia’s two largest universities. You might be thinking words like “consolidation”, “efficiency”, “redundancy”, or even “profit”. You’d be wrong. Consider instead “geometry” and “applications”. Reflect upon the fact that the underwater caves of southern Australia are vast and deep, penetrating into the ancient continental kraton and out under the southern ocean—reportedly as far as Antarctica. Wonder whether they intersect with the cave system that the 1931 Lake-Dyer expedition encountered beneath the Mountains of Madness. Contemplate speculation that the unidentified smell emanating from the new Vice-Chancellor’s office, which has been described as “shoggoth socks”, is.