The Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science - News service

Publication date:

2020/02/18

Technical study programs were considered a male domain, but the achievements of women and girls in science prove that technology also offers great possibilities to women. Every year for the fifth time now, on 15 February, the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague therefore organizes the event Become a Scientist for a Day, intended primarily for secondary school students. Participants and participants learned about particle physics, quantum technologies and mathematical applications, both in lectures, in exercises and in laboratories.

During the day, for example, a presentation of particle physics in the 21st century was presented by Jana Bielčíková from the Department of Physics of the FNSPE and the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Applied Mathematics by doc. Ľubomíra Dvořáková from the Department of Mathematics of the FNSPE and Hana Tenglerová and Kristýna Veitová from the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic also spoke about women and girls in science.

The participants faced practical exercises divided into three groups during the afternoon. One focused on particle physics and during the exercises they worked with real data from the Large Hadron Accelerator LHC at CERN, or produced a cosmic ray detector. In the next part the students looked under the lid of applied mathematics and found out how mathematics helps in biology, music or computer science. The third group then focused on quantum technology.

The share of female students at FNSPE is slowly increasing. While at the end of 2017 it was 32.1%, one year later it was already 33.5%. There are 36.8% of students in the bachelor's degree, 37.0% in the master's degree and 23.5% in the doctoral degree. At the end of 2018, 31.1% of students at the CTU were female students.