Reports

The Department of Aerospace Engineering of CTU Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and AERO Vodochody AEROSPACE a.s. prepared a meeting of academics and representatives of industrial companies with students of secondary and higher education institutions and the professional public. Enthusiastic aircraft and space technology fans of listened to engaging lectures and personal stories.

A delegation of the French Embassy lead by the Ambassador to the Czech Republic Alexis Duterte arrived for a tour of the VR-1 and VR-2 reactors of Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of CTU in Prague (FJFI) on Tuesday, 21 November 2023. In addition to the tour itself, faculty representatives presented the range of activities that FJFI does in the nuclear field - from training professionals in safety to applied research and materials development.

Scientists from leading European institutions are not the only ones that are convinced artificial intelligence (AI) can play a significant role in solving serious problems in society, but also the European Commission, which has decided to support their research with €11 million (about CZK 270 million). The ELIAS project will link the development of trustworthy AI for its further use, especially towards sustainability. The teams of Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of Czech Technical University in Prague (CIIRC CTU) are the only representatives of Czech science involved in this cutting-edge European research and will thus contribute to the development of algorithms with a direct impact on society and economic development.

The 70th annual running race and the 60th annual Academic Cross Country Championships were held at the Obora Hvězda park on Friday, 17 November, 2023. The race was traditionally organized by the Institute of Physical Education and Sport of CTU, the race was held under the auspices of the Rector of CTU in Prague doc. Vojtěch Petráček.

An intelligent low-maintenance installation filled with plants, designed and built by researchers from the University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings (UCEEB) of the Czech Technical University in Prague, has been erected at Můstek station on the "green" line A. The innovative element of the city's urban furniture is supported by the Prague Public Transit Company. With the support of the Prague City Council, the project will test the viability of projects improving the quality of the indoor environment in problematic areas of the Prague metro.

The Czech Telecommunications Office (CTU) has started to use an innovative version of the equipment for simultaneous testing of mobile networks of three operators in its measurement vehicles. Thanks to the measurement system, the controller will be able to perform long-term uninterrupted testing on the move and transfer the results to map documents immediately after the measurement is completed. The 13 boxes of F-Tester® 4drive-boxes with a total value of CZK 9,430,135 were developed and manufactured by experts at the Department of Telecommunication Technology of Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

Representatives of the House of Lobkowicz and Faculty of Information Technology of Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU) signed a memorandum of cooperation at the Lobkowicz Palace at Prague Castle On Monday 20 November 2023.

Ing. David Bernhauer, Ph.D. from FIT CTU, won the Josef Hlávka Prize, which is awarded to talented students who have demonstrated exceptional ability and creative thinking in their field. He received the award both for his dissertation, Similarity Search in Unstructured Data using Data-Transitive Models, and for his teaching and popular science activities as well. He received his diploma at the castle in Lužany on 16 November, 2023.

This year again, CTU in Prague and its representatives honoured the events of November 17th 1939 and 1989 by laying wreaths outside Hlávka dormitory, in Žitná Street, and in Albertov. November 17th is the only momentous date which, as International Students Day, has its origin in the Czech (Czechoslovak) Republic. It is at the same time a state holiday in the Czech Republic as the Day of Struggle for Freedom and Democracy. One day earlier, on behalf of the Czech Technical University in Prague, vice-rector Radek Holý recalled the background to the closure of the universities in 1939, at an event at the Ruzyně barracks organised by the Association for Commemorating the Czech Resistance.

In the prestigious competition The Global Undergraduate Awards 2023, which is called the Nobel Prize for juniors, Dominika Burešová, a student of Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the CTU in Prague, was among the winners in the category of mathematics and physics. She succeeded with her bachelor's thesis in a competition of more than 2800 other male and female students from 409 universities worldwide. No one from the Czech Republic has ever won this prize in the fields taught at CTU.