Reports

Members of the Department of Theoretical Computer Science at FIT CTU presented their two scientific papers at the prestigious international conference AAAI 2024 (The Thirty–Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence), which is considered one of the most important conferences in the field of artificial intelligence with the highest rating of A*. The AAAI conference is known for its demanding peer review process. In the competition of more than 12,000 scientific articles, less than 20% of the submitted papers were selected for the main part of the conference, two of them were from scientists from FIT CTU. This year's conference welcomed participants in February in Vancouver, Canada.

The Cybernetics and Robotics study programme at CTU Faculty of Electrical Engineering has just opened the second year of a unique course How to Make (Almost) Anything. The concept of practical education in the field of digital manufacturing and rapid prototyping is not new; it has been promoted for many years by the prestigious American university MIT. The course leaders at the Prague FEL CTU have now teamed up with another DIY powerhouse - the Maker Institute, a non-profit platform that is an interdisciplinary project of CTU and ICT.

Ninety-five female high school students from the Czech Republic and Slovakia took part in the Become a Scientist for a Day event on Friday 9 February.

In 2016, a project was launched to stimulate the development of the aerospace industry in the Czech Republic. The testing infrastructure for aircraft engines was built by Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of CTU in 2016-2022 and is now successfully operated. This educational and research infrastructure enables the development of advanced industrial production in the field of aircraft engines in the Czech Republic and forms the basis for the education of professionals in this field.

A parade marched out of the entrance hall of the CTU building today to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the students' march for freedom and democracy on 25 February 1948 and its brutal dispersal by the communist police. A commemorative act was then held at the memorial plaque at the top of Nerudova Street.

Professor Ing. Petr Moos, Csc. was very closely associated with CTU. He graduated from Faculty of Electrical Engineering at CTU, but his lifelong interest in transport and everything related to it led him to become one of the founders of CTU Faculty of Transportation Sciences in the early 1990s.

The Faculty of Transportation Sciences of CTU in Prague, as part of its dual-degree program Smart Cities, has now expanded its cooperation with CITYA and launched a joint project in the USA, which aims to implement the concept of operational public transport into the American transport system.

A conference organised by the European Youth Forum and the non-profit international student organisation ESN (Erasmus Student Network) took place in Ghent, Belgium on 12 February 2024.

A new virtual reality app presents the process of spaceflight, everyday life in orbit, and the dangers and risks astronauts may face. It was developed by researchers from the Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague in cooperation with the consulting and technology company Deloitte. The Planetum - Observatory and Planetarium of the City of Prague is the professional guarantor of the project, which will use the application to popularize scientific topics related to space among students and pupils of secondary and primary schools.

The CTU Ball is one of the highlights of the ball season. This year was no different.