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![New Dean's Inauguration](/cache/images/99/data-nodes-19113-matfyz-inaugurace-09092020-27-clip-w320-h200-o50.jpg)
Associate professor Mirko Rokyta has been inaugurated as Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. He replaced Prof. Jan Kratochvíl, the previous head of the faculty.
![CUNI MFF opened new pavilion IMPAKT](/cache/images/0e/data-nodes-17597-matfyz-troja-impakt-opening-webq-11-clip-w320-h200-o50.jpg)
A new pavilion, which significantly extended the educational and research base of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, was opened on Tuesday June 9th, 2020.
![New stage play written by artificial intelligence coming soon](/cache/images/9a/data-nodes-16948-kickoff-photo-tym-clip-w320-h200-o50.jpg)
Dr. Rudolf Rosa from the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University got a two-year-long subsidy to work on a project that links artificial intelligence and theatre. His team will create two stage plays by which he will show how much the artificial intelligence can do itself and what are its limitations.
![ESA Solar Orbiter first observed solar wind](/cache/images/ad/data-nodes-16790-swa-pas-fm-clip-w320-h200-o50.jpg)
Heliospheric probe Solar Orbiter with electronics from Matfyz onboard sent its first observations of solar wind particles with a unique time resolution.
![Prof. Robin Thomas](/cache/images/e9/data-nodes-16597-thomas-clip-w320-h200-o50.jpg)
Prof. Robin Thomas, one of the internationally best known and most respected Czech mathematicians, died of a long-term illness on Thursday, March 26, 2020. He was 57 years old.
![Remembering Robin Thomas](/cache/images/56/data-nodes-16451-p1492-edit-clip-w320-h200-o20.jpg)
Prof. Robin Thomas, one of the internationally best known and the most respected Czech mathematicians, died of a long lasting illness on Thursday, March 26, 2020. He was 57 years old.
![Cooperation with Brown extended](/cache/images/e2/data-nodes-16408-7099670447-72fb31c4cf-k-clip-w320-h200-o50.jpg)
On March 24, 2020 an extended version of Inter-University Agreement between Charles University and a member of the Ivy League, the prestigious Brown University (Providence, USA), was signed.
![Charles University offers infrastructural capacity to fight SARS‑CoV‑2 and COVID‑19](/cache/images/e8/data-nodes-16328-shutterstock-1654083868-clip-w320-h200-o50.jpg)
The research infrastructure LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ and its host institution – Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University – offers part of its computing capacity for research projects which aim at fighting SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, starting April 1, 2020.
![Charles University and Brno University of Technology belong to the prestigious network of European laboratories for artificial intelligence](/cache/images/da/data-nodes-16268-mf-podklad01-2-clip-w320-h200-o50.jpg)
Two Czech laboratories working in automatic speech and language processing have achieved significant international success. The results of the European program supporting the creation of artificial intelligence centers were announced in March, and the institutions involved in the HumanE-AI Net project also include the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague and the Faculty of Information Technology, BUT.
![An in-depth education with a lot of personal attention](/cache/images/af/data-nodes-15731-aakash-a-max-clip-w320-h200-o50.jpg)
Aakash Ravi is a Co-Founder of company called Spaceti and successful alumnus of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University, who was selected as the best international alumnus of the Czech Republic by the Centre for International Cooperation in Education. Here we bring you an interview with him and another Co-Founder of Spaceti and fellow alumnus of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Max Huk.
![Professor Maxim Kontsevich, a Fields Medalist, lectured at our Faculty](/cache/images/9a/data-nodes-15486-matfyz-derived-categories-konference-16022020-6-clip-w320-h200-o50.jpg)
A Conference in celebration of the 60th birthday of Prof. Amnon Yekutieli, and the recent publication of his new monograph titled Derived Categories by Cambridge University Press, was held in the School of Mathematics of the Faculty on February 15-16, 2020.
![Fulbright Distinguished Chair: Prof. Ellis-Monaghan](/cache/images/47/data-nodes-15188-jem-photo-agoodall-clip-w320-h200-o50.jpg)
The Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University is delighted to welcome Professor Joanna A. Ellis-Monaghan from Saint Michael's College, Colchester, Vermont, who will be at the faculty this year from 25 January to 8 August 2020 having received the Fulbright-Charles University Distinguished Chair Award from the Fulbright Scholar Program.