Reports

On 11 January 2024, Prime Minister Petr Fiala visited Jaipur at the end of his working trip to India. The official delegation accompanying the Prime Minister included Ondřej Velek, Director of CIIRC CTU, and Prof. Vladimír Mařík, Scientific Director of CIIRC. Together they visited NIMS University, where they met with the school management and academics and discussed the development of joint research projects and the expansion of cooperation between universities and research institutions. They also visited the construction of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Cybernetics, named after Prof. Vladimir Mařík, to be completed this year. During the visit to the university, a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics CTU and the National Institute of Medical Sciences University (NIMS University), which focuses on creating a digital partnership in the Indo-Pacific. NIMS University is one of the leading private educational institutions in India. In the interview, Vladimir Mařík stressed the importance of opening the path for the Czech engineering community to India as a promising technological and economic power.

This year's first Physics Thursday at Faculty of Electrical Engineering was dedicated to Nikola Tesla.

Seventy square metres of Prague's Jaroslav Fragner Gallery have become inaccessible to visitors since mid-December. The curator Karolína Plášková erected a construction fence around the centre of the exhibition hall to highlight the growing unaffordability of housing and to present Czech initiatives and artistic or protest actions that call for housing as a basic human right.

During the academic year, more than two and a half thousand studio works and final theses will be produced in almost seventy faculty studios. From a diverse range of projects, this year's curatorial team selected the best projects that present shared values across distinctive approaches and different school programs.

A travelling exhibition of photographs 'Ukraine: War and Resistance' opened yesterday at CTU in the St.Wenceslas Hall of the Bethlehem Chapel. This project was initiated by the Fulbright Commission in Ukraine and implemented by the Fulbright Commission in the Czech Republic and CTU in Prague.

The traditional New Year's concert for CTU employees, partners and friends took place in the beautiful Dvořák Hall of Rudolfinum on Tuesday 9 January. As every year, there was a huge interest in the concert.

The system is not only able to detect the shooting and determine the shooter's position within seconds but also to estimate the calibre and type of weapon used. Artificial intelligence is involved in identifying the type of weapon, making the system from the Department of Measurement at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU superior to existing technologies. The acoustic detector, which can distinguish gunshots from false alarms with a 99 percent success rate, will be useful for both special military and civilian use in buildings such as schools hospitals, and urban areas.

From April to December 2023, the staff of the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies of CTU in Prague implemented the international university cooperation project "Transfer of experience in urban development and renewal planning to Moldova" within the framework of the Czech Foreign Aid funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and the Czech Development Agency.

In the prestigious IT SPY competition, the graduate of the Open Informatics programme of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU, Ing. Pavlína Koutecká, under the guidance of Associate Professor Přemysl Šůcha from the Department of Control Engineering, proposed possibilities for better planning of surgical interventions in hospitals. Using the branch-and-price method accelerated by machine learning, her solution will bring significant savings in time and resources. The jury awarded Pavlína Koutecká's work with 2nd place.

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