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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.
The Big Bang Stage and other stages of the festival will once again enrich the Colours of Ostrava festival with a scientific program. The 70th anniversary of CERN's founding will be commemorated by a lecture delivered by Director General Fabiola Gianotti. Dana Drábová will talk about the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer. The program will feature not only speakers but also physical experiments, „singing“ elementary particles, and artistic battles with a scientific twist.
In June, an international astronomical conference called Symbiotic Stars, Weird Novae, and Related Embarrassing Binaries took place at our faculty. The lectures and subsequent discussions included remarkable binary systems that still surprise us with their behaviour, sudden bursts of flare, massive matter transfer, or expanding common envelope.
The Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the CUNI was visited by a delegation from the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU). Representatives of the College of Science of NTNU and Matfyz talked about possibilities of cooperation in mathematics, physics, and other fields.
Few people are lucky enough to belong among the Oscar nominees, one of them is also Tereza Kotěšovcová, a graduate of Matfyz and FAMU. However, the talk is not about awards for best films, but about a prestigious competition of independent computer games. The young developer was nominated as one of the six competitors in the category of Best Student Game at the Independent Games Festival in San Francisco this year and she presented her graduate game called “Planetka”.
Matfyz team consisting of three students represented Charles University at the global finals of the prestigious International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).
Malach Centre for Visual History – a workplace that provides access to several tens of thousands of eyewitness accounts of the tragic events of the 20th century. Extensive audiovisual recordings also serve as “training” data in the development of new computer technologies. However, it is not solely open to researchers and students, but also to the general public, and that has stood for 14 years.
The cover page of the current issue of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics highlights research by scientists from Charles University and their colleagues from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg dealing with properties of cerium oxide nanoparticles in the alkaline electrolyte.
The School of Mathematics at Matfyz has launched a new series of colloquium talks, informally called the „Karlín Colloquium“. The primary aim of this initiative is to feature speakers who present their research in a manner accessible to the entire School of Mathematics. Additionally, the colloquium serves as a venue for people from different departments to meet and socialize during post-lecture refreshments.
Multiscale materials are assembled from different types of nanomaterials, which themselves have unusual properties. By combining and integrating them into higher-order hierarchies, smart matter with unique functionalities and surprising applications in many different fields can be obtained. A consortium of eight partners from academia and research, led by the J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, has received financial support from the Programme Johannes Amos Comenius of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. Specifically, it was the Excellent Research Call aimed at supporting research with the potential for excellent results applicable in practice.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected three final satellite projects for the new medium-class mission (M7): M-Matisse, Plasma Observatory, and Theseus. Based on detailed studies in the upcoming Phase A, one project will be chosen for realization, with a planned launch scheduled for post-2035.
Professor Eva Hajičová has been awarded the 2023 Neil and Saras Smith Medal for her work in theoretical, computational and corpus linguistics, with a focus on semantics and discourse structure.
Charles University, on behalf of its subsidiary Charles University Innovations Prague a.s. (CUIP), establishes a spin-off company Additive Appearance s.r.o., which launches a unique software for reliable simulation of 3D models for 3D printing. At a time when designers and engineers are increasingly using 3D printing to create physical prototypes for their designs, this offers a simple way to print the resulting prototype with maximum similarity to the final product.
The Johannes Amos Comenius Programme will support 15 research projects whose aim is to bring practical results to society and Matfyz is a co-investigator of several of them.
In the landscape of scientific exploration, few discoveries have held as much promise and mystery as LK-99. Named after its discoverers Sukbae Lee and Ji-Hoon Kim and the year of its discovery in 1999, LK-99 emerged as a potential breakthrough in the field of superconductivity. Its purported ability to exhibit superconductivity at room temperature and ambient pressure tantalized researchers and engineers with visions of revolutionary technological advancements.
