Reports

Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), one of the world's most important cybersecurity conferences, brought 520 experts from 37 countries to Prague and 68 more joined online. Each year, the event significantly influences global trends in cryptology and security of embedded systems that are part of smart devices, i.e. the security of all of us. The conference was held on 10-14 September 2023 for the first time in the Czech Republic and CTU Faculty of Information Technology had the honour of hosting it.

We bring you an interview with Jakub Kaplický from the CTU CarTech student team. Every year, the team builds a new formula car for the Formula Student races and this year was really revolutionary for the team.

The Dean of the Faculty of Transportation Sciences, prof. Ing. Ondřej Přibyl, Ph. D., greeted the current Minister of Transportation Mgr. Martin Kupka in the Chair for a Guest series on Thursday, 19 October 2023

The "Ones and Zeros" faculty podcast of Faculty of Information Technology celebrates its second anniversary in October. The first monothematic episode was published by the faculty on October 10, 2021 at 10.10 am. The aim of the podcast is to answer topical questions about how information technology affects the world around us. The podcast guests are experts from FIT CTU who talk about topics such as AI, cybersecurity, supercomputers, public data, recommender systems and much more. So far, 24 episodes have been released and the total viewership has exceeded 26,900 plays. The podcast has been hosted by well-known science popularizer Sara Polak for the past two years.

The Neuron Foundation for the Promotion of Science awarded the Neuron 2023 Prizes to the best Czech scientists on Sunday 15 October 2023. During the gala evening, seven promising scientific talents received the prestigious award, including computer vision expert Dr. Zuzana Kúkelová from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU.

The popularity of photovoltaic panels in the Czech Republic is growing. (According to data from the Solar Association, 69% more photovoltaic panels were installed than in the whole of 2022, in the first half of this year alone.) The motivation of investors in photovoltaics is now presented in more detail by researchers from Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague, who, in a clear brochure, have summarized the entire typology and other results of a unique survey of nearly 2,500 owners of photovoltaic power plants.

CTU in Prague and CIIRC hosted a meeting of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) alumni on October 13-15. The main organizer was MIT Club Germany in cooperation with MIT Club Poland and MIT Club Austria, and ALUMNI CTU and its leader Petr Štěpán participated in the organization.

Three students of Faculty of Architecture have won awards at prestigious competitions. Mariia Sokolova from the ZD Jaroš-Nezpěváková studio won the second prize in the 27th edition of the prestigious international competition Model Young Package, where the jury awarded her design for an innovative beverage container that is foldable and environmentally friendly. And in the eleventh edition of the competition "Buildings with the smell of wood", the works of our graduates were awarded - the Shelter by Kateřina Šrofová won the jury's award, and the design by Karolina Šimonová for the conversion of Tepna Náchod was awarded by the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

The IBM Quantum Hub Qiskit hackathon was held 8-10 August 2023 at National Taiwan University (NTU) with about 70 participants from NTU, Yonsei University (Korea), Keio University (Japan), Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), and other academic and non-academic institutions from Taiwan as part of an effort to build a regional community of quantum computing experts. CTU was represented by Dr. Aurél Gábris, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering (FNSPE), who served also as a mentor to teams during the hackathon, and six students from FNSPE and the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT).

Czech aircraft manufacturer Aero is entering a new era of research and development through strategic cooperation with prestigious technical universities. Aero representatives met with representatives of the Czech Technical University (CTU), Brno University of Technology (BUT) and the University of Defence in Brno (UNOB) to discuss systematic cooperation on a number of key projects.