Academic help for Postgres

I am giving a keynote at an IEEE database conference in Helsinki next
week (http://icde2016.fi/).  (Yes, I am not attending PGCon Ottawa
because I accepted the Helsinki conference invitation before the PGCon
Ottawa date was changed from June to May).

As part of the keynote, I would like to mention areas where academia can
help us.  The topics I can think of are:
Query optimizationOptimizer statisticsIndexing structuresReducing function call overheadCPU
localitySortingParallelismSharding

Any others?

--  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB
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