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The International Magnesium Society has honored Prof. Kristián Máthis of the Department of Physics of Materials with the prestigious International Magnesium Award for Special Contribution on Innovation of the Year. The award recognizes his pioneering work in the in-situ investigation of deformation mechanisms in magnesium alloys.
A team of researchers from Charles University, Aix-Marseille Université, the European Southern Observatory, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other institutions have published two groundbreaking studies in Nature on the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth today.
The series of lectures honouring one of the most significant Czech mathematicians continues. The 23rd Jarník’s Lecture was delivered in September by researcher and ERC grant holder Dr. Erin Carson.
Dr. Felix Schröder, a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Applied Mathematics at Charles University, received the award for the best paper at the Graph Drawing and Network Visualization Conference GD‘24.
A team of scientists from the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, in collaboration with colleagues from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, have made a significant advance in understanding future hydrogen storage technology. Their latest research, published in the ACS Energy Letters, reveal the active configuration of catalysts to generate electricity from hydrogen storage systems.
Iveta Zatočilová graduated at Matfyz in particle and nuclear physics. After completing her master’s studies, she went abroad to gain further experience and is now in her second year of studying and working at one of the oldest universities in Germany. As a PhD student at Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, she is involved, among other things, in the preparation and testing of a new inner detector for the ATLAS experiment at CERN.
Dr. Dalimil Peša, a graduate of the Department of Mathematical Analysis at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics CUNI, has been honoured by the Polish Mathematical Society. He is the first Czech recipient of the International Stefan Banach Prize, which he received at the Ninth Forum of Polish Mathematicians in Katowice. Dr. Peša was recognized for his dissertation focusing on function spaces.
Ondřej Bojar and Dominik Macháček from the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (ÚFAL) at Charles University have obtained a U.S. patent for simultaneous machine translation of speech from multiple language sources. This patent gives the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (Matfyz) exclusive rights to commercialise its research outcomes in the United States. The authors are currently seeking a suitable application partner.
Seven years ago, the Finnish polar observatory Kannuslehto detected a peculiar type of radio waves at audible frequencies— a series of descending whistling tones that persisted throughout the night until morning. These phenomena occur when radio pulses from lightning travel through the plasma environment in the near-Earth space. However, until now, no one had studied the properties of the lightning discharges that generated these signals. This has been accomplished by two Czech scientists in collaboration with a Finnish colleague, with the results published in the journal Nature Communications.
After a year, classroom T1 at MFF UK has been once again hosting workshop with a focus on gravity waves, organized by a research group of the same name at Department of atmospheric physics.
Prague recently hosted the 42nd year of the ICHEP conference, a biennial event showcasing the most significant global advancements in particle physics since the 1950s.
The Combinatorial Structures and Processes (CoSP) project supported research secondments of 52 scientists at prestigious universities in the US and Canada. These included Rutgers University, Princeton University, Simon Fraser University and the University of California, Berkeley. Scientists from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (MFF UK) and its partner institutions, the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and the Israel‘s Technion, spent a total of 143.5 months across the Atlantic Ocean.
Matfyz has received a grant to realize prestigious projects from the European Horizon Europe programme (ERA Chair scheme). With the help of a leading expert from the Sorbonne in Paris, Michel Grabisch, the AGATE research centre (Algorithmic Game Theory in Socioeconomics) will be established at our faculty.
An article on Hamiltonian graphs, authored by PhD student Nikola Jedličková and Prof. Jan Kratochvíl from the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, received the Best Paper Award at the international conference IWOCA 2024.
Get ready for the particle physics event of the year! From July 18–24, the global scientific community will gather at the Prague Congress Centre for ICHEP 2024, the International Conference on High Energy Physics. This renowned conference, famous for groundbreaking announcements like the Higgs boson discovery in 2012, promises to unveil the latest findings from the depths of the microcosm.
Patrik Dokoupil, a doctoral student at the Department of Software Engineering at Charles University’s Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, received an award at the international ACM UMAP 2024 conference, held in early July on the Italian island of Sardinia. His paper User Perceptions of Diversity in Recommender Systems earned him the James Chen Best Student Paper Award as the first author. The paper triumphed among more than 90 publications.
Associate Professor Jan Kynčl and doctoral student Jan Soukup from the DiGeo discrete geometry group at the Department of Applied Mathematics of Matfyz CUNI, received an award at the international conference WG 2024 in Slovenia. They won the main prize, the Best Paper Award, for solving a problem in the field of discrete geometry.
