Reports

The collection of Essays on Consciousness with the subtitle Towards Artificial Intelligence by the editors Vladimír Mařík, Tat'ána Maříková and Miroslav Svítek was christened at the CTU Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics by the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences Eva Zažímalová. The book, which fills a certain debt on the Czech book market, tries to show human consciousness through the eyes of five different scientific disciplines. Among the authors of the individual essays are a number of prominent figures of Czech science, led by microbiologist Václav Pačes, neurosurgeon Vladimír Beneš and the most cited Czech scientist Tomáš Mikolov.

On 17 June 2024, the Faculty of Transportation Sciences of CTU in Prague and the company AŽD inaugurated the new modern Competence Centre Dětenice. The specialised teaching workplace especially for students of railway disciplines was created on the experimental line Kopidlno - Dolní Bousov in the Hradec Králové Region in less than 12 months by revitalising the original service warehouse at the Dětenice railway station.

The finals of the Pangea mathematics competition took place today in the new building of the National Museum. The results were then announced in the late afternoon at the Karlín Music Theatre.

This week, experts from the Department of Nuclear Reactors (KJR) at Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering took over a new device from the Korean company KHNP - the APR1000 reactor simulator, which the company designed in the tender for the Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant. The powerful and realistic model for teaching reactor physics has been acquired by the university as part of extensive scientific and educational cooperation between CTU and Korean partners from nuclear companies, scientific institutes and educational institutions. The simulator from KHNP will be used not only by students of the Nuclear Reactor Department, but activities on the simulator will also be included in educational courses organised by the KJR.

CTU Faculty of Transportation Sciences started cooperation with the Secondary Industrial School of Transport, which became its first faculty school. Together they want to promote technical education in the field of transport.

The Real Estate Development - Location lifelong learning course connects different areas of the real estate market. Participants learn to use the skills they have learned to benefit the city and private companies. They can apply them in the preparation of their own investment projects and in negotiations with partners. The training was provided by Faculty of Architecture of CTU in cooperation with the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies.

There's no hiding caries from artificial intelligence. The most prevalent disease, affecting approximately half of the world's population, can be diagnosed by AI from X-rays as effectively as by experienced dentists. The automated method for detecting cavities based on deep learning was developed by a team of researchers from CTU Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the 1st Medical Faculty of Charles University.

CTU had the honour of being part of the prestigious international conference NAFSA 2024, which took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 28 to 31 May. This event is a top gathering in the field of international education, attracting thousands of academics and university representatives from all over the world. This year, it managed to connect up to 9,500 professionals over four days.

The National Centre for Industry 4.0 in cooperation with almost 60 authors is preparing a publication "Industry 4.0 - the basis of economic transformation", which is a follow-up to the key book on the topic published in 2016: "Industry 4.0 - a vision for the Czech Republic". During the Open Doors Day, which took place at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics and in cooperation with RICAIP Testbed Prague, five guarantors of the individual chapters - Vladimír Mařík, Jiří Holoubek, Jana Polášek Filová, Eduard Palíšek and Miroslava Kopicová - discussed the topic. Moderator Robert Keil, Director of the National Centre for Industry 4.0, focused the panel on topics such as the impact of digitalization on the labour market, sustainability of industrial production including energy management or new business models. All seen through the practical lens of the current situation and in line with the necessity of the economic transformation of the Czech Republic.

The Association of Research Universities of the Czech Republic (AVUni) had seven members to date. The University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice has joined this grouping of elite domestic higher education institutions. The signing ceremony of the relevant documents took place today at Masaryk University in Brno.