Reports

On 22 June 2022, the ŠKODA Museum in Mladá Boleslav hosted the unveiling of two new Formula Student monoposts, which were created by students of the Czech Technical University in Prague under the auspices of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Specifically, they are the 11th generation of the piloted electric formula and an innovative autonomously controlled monopost.

Detect attacker activity, find system vulnerabilities, or find out what is the effect of a malicious code. This is also what a class of participants in the Cyber Summer School can do just before the end of the school year. Eighteen students, mostly high school students, gathered at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague on Monday, 20 June for an initial four-day camp.

Among other events that were part of VědaFest (this year subtitled Science from A to Z), a ceremonial signing of a memorandum of cooperation between the two schools took place on Dejvice's Vítězné náměstí on Wednesday, 22 June 2022. It may not show at first glance, but these are close more than just geographically.

Another 16 graduates received a certificate at the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies of the Czech Technical University in Prage certifying successful completion of the Specific Course for Coaches professional programme.

Vojtěch Janeček and Dagmar Bendová won first and second place in the Milan Odehnal Award for 2022. They were joined by Jakub Cimerman, who received an honorable mention. All three award winners are from the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague (FJFI).

An extraordinary event took place at the Department of Microelectronics, which occurs at most once every ninety years. It was just such a jubilee that doc. Julius Foit celebrated. For his lifelong contribution to the development of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU, he was awarded the Trnka Medal*. The sheer number of years Doc. Foit spent actively working at and with the Faculty is nearing seven decades.

Eighty research and industry experts in robotics and industrial artificial intelligence (AI) from both sides of the Atlantic gathered last week at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CIIRC CTU) for a US-EU workshop to discuss what will be the defining scientific and technological development for industrial manufacturing in the next decade. The event was organized in close cooperation with three world-renowned personalities, Prof. Růžena Bajcsy from UC Berkeley, Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster from DFKI and Prof. Vladimír Mařík from CIIRC CTU. On this occasion, two commemorative medals were also awarded to Prof. Růžena Bajcsy. What are the main findings that will influence the industry and what is the direction of research and development in robotics and manufacturing for the near future?

Professor Růžena Bajcsy, a legend in the field of computer sciences, a world robotics personality of Slovak origin, was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Žilina and a medal of the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CIIRC CTUT) for her lifelong contribution to the development of science and Czech-Slovak-American scientific relations. This was during the US-EU workshop on the use of artificial intelligence in industry, which Prof. Bajcsy co-organized in Prague together with Prof. Vladimír Mařík and Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster.

Another edition of the Czech Rocket Challenge competition organized by the Czech Rocket Society took place at Brno Medlánky Airport on Friday, 10 June 2022.

Launching a balloon probe to measure the transmission of telemetry data - that was the dream of Jakub Dvořák, a student at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague. He chose the topic of his bachelor thesis accordingly. The measurements from his probe, which ascended to an altitude of seventeen kilometres with the help of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, will be used by scientists to deploy 5G and 6G communication networks.