The members of CLC appreciated the effort made by the evaluation panel in assessing the activities of the center and in providing concrete helpful recommendations. Nevertheless, there is a general consensus at CLC that the report of the panel was prepared from a point of view outside the domain of Mathematics, namely Informatics. Even though this point of view was useful in detecting some interesting application topics (albeit none of which previously unknown at CLC), it precluded the recognition of the long term strategy of CLC as a center of Mathematics. 

Indeed, contrarily to the point of view expressed by the panel regarding the objectives of CLC (allegedly "to diversify towards Fundamental Informatics"), CLC is a center of Mathematics whose goal is to produce world class research in topics broadly related to Mathematical Logic and Theory of Computation, such as AMS MSC2000 03B, 03D, 03F, 03G, 06D, 06F, 18A, 18B, 37N, 46L, 46M, 68Q, 81P, 92B, motivated by applications in other areas of Mathematics, Physics, Life Sciences and, of course, Informatics but without a special commitment to short term concerns of the latter. 

Adopting the point of view of Mathematics, and given the small size of CLC, its focus is already quite broad, meeting areas such as logic, analysis and algebra (abstract deductive systems, computational complexity over the reals, operator algebras, quantales, categories) with applications in security and system specification. In addition, some of the recommendations put forward by the panel on how to branch out the activities of CLC were already being implemented at the time of the evaluation, namely towards hybrid logics (in cooperation with the group of Patrick Blackburn), constructive type theory (by a PhD student working with Henk Barendregt) and proof theory (by a PhD student working with Alessandra Carbone), and CLC is also initiating activities in other topics, namely brain modeling with dynamical systems (by a new member), and quantum computation and cryptography. 

On a more positive tone, CLC welcomed the support given by the panel to its policies of publishing in top journals and prestigious conferences, of maintaining close contacts with top research groups in Portugal and (more importantly) abroad, of attracting postdocs and long-term visitors in new topics, and of sending away its PhD students for periods abroad. CLC hopes that the level of funding by FCT will increase so as to be compatible with these policies.

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