Reports

On 12 June, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU in Prague hosted the third international presentation of the most successful student projects, EuroTeQaThon. Students developed their ideas in the project orientated EuroTeQ Collider course. Within its framework, students were solving assignments from industrial partners. During the event, the three best developed topics of the "Leave no Waste behind" challenge from each of the following EuroTeQ partner university were presented - Technical University of Munich (TUM), Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e), Ecole Polytechnique (L'X), Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), and Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech).

The eForce FEE Prague Formula team from Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Czech Technical University (FEL CTU) took a big step forward this year. Today, at the National Technical Museum in Prague, they presented a fusion of a piloted and autonomous electroformula car that they have developed in recent months. The student team, which is among the top ten in Europe, has so far developed the autonomous and piloted formula separately. It has combined the technologies to comply with the rules of top competitions. The first of the four prestigious races awaits the eForce in early July. The team consists of students from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FS) of CTU.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket carried the HardPix radiation detector, developed by the Institute of Technical and Experimental Physics of Czech Technical University and manufactured by BD Sensors, into space on 12 June at 23:35 CET. HardPix will thus join the SATRAM detector, which has been operating successfully in Earth orbit for more than 10 years and on which the CTU Institute of Physics and Astronomy also collaborated with BD Sensors.

The spring part of the Robo Contest for the 2nd grades of primary schools and the corresponding classes of multi-year grammar schools had a special finale this year on Sunday 11 June at the Maker Faire Prague. Out of the 14 teams that placed best in the previous rounds, the winner of Sunday's superfinal was the Havárie team from Technecia Pardubice, whose "ping pong" lego robot won the final battle against the robot of the Labužníci team from the Klíček Elementary School in Prague 4.

Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, purchased by Czech Technical University in Prague in 2020, has been operating under the new dramaturgical direction of Karolína Plášková since 2023 and has reopened to the public after a short break. On Monday, the gallery's director presented her concept - the architecture gallery will focus on themes that go beyond architecture and urban design, and will want to present progressive and critical ideas that are current in the world of architecture.

The 12th annual conference within the series Regional Development between Theory and Practice was held at the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies (MIAS) of the Czech Technical University in Prague on Thursday, 1 June 2023. The main theme of this year's conference was "Regional development as part of the sustainable transformation of Europe". The conference was hosted and opened by the Director of the Ministry of Regional Development, Prof. PhDr. Vladimíra Dvořáková, CSc. together with the main organizer doc. Ing. arch. Vladimíra Šilhánková, Ph.D., Head of the Institute of Public Administration and Regional Studies at MIAS.

Faculty of Architecture of Czech Technical University in Prague invites you to the ongoing exhibition of studio works from the summer semester. It offers projects of 65 studios studying Architecture and Urbanism, Landscape Architecture and Design. The opening ceremony associated with the opening of the diploma projects exhibition will be held on 13 June at 18:00.

Chairman of the Association of Sports unions of the Czech Republic Zdeněk Ertl and Rector of the CTU Vojtěch Petráček signed a memorandum on long-term cooperation. Within the framework of this cooperation, they intend, for example, to strengthen the importance of academic sport for the development of the sports environment in the Czech Republic.

On Tuesday June 6th, 2023, the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague launched the second training fission nuclear reactor VR-2, and the tenth nuclear reactor currently in operation in the Czech Republic. In addition to these two training reactors, the Research Centre in Řež operates two research reactors, and six nuclear reactors are in operation at two ČEZ nuclear power plants. The Faculty is launching VR-2 exactly a year after it made public that its construction had been authorized by the State Office for Nuclear Safety (SÚJB). The new reactor is situated in the same reactor hall as VR-1 operated by the Faculty since 1990.

Nowadays, continuous research on programming languages is essential for the development of artificial intelligence. Prof. Kirsch, the head of the Programming Research Laboratory at Faculty of Information Technology of Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU), applies his experience from University of California at Berkeley in Silicon Valley and University of Salzburg in Austria. He and his fellow researchers and students are looking for ideal solutions to apply innovations in programming languages to the development of artificial intelligence as efficiently as possible.