Reports

Representatives of the Association of Graduates and Friends of CTU put in a good performance in this year’s popular Vltava Run team race! Among the 303 teams that ran in the race this year, they took a very creditable 38th place, even though they were only able to use 11 runners after losing one team member to health problems. Three of the team members had to run four legs in the race, instead of the standard three.

The jubilee monopost of the CTU CarTech FS.15 student formula car was officially presented in the most important place of the Czech automotive industry, the Škoda Museum in Mladá Boleslav. On Monday 15 May 2023, the popular Formula 1 commentator Števo Eisele guided the protagonists and guests through the afternoon programme. With a deep knowledge of the subject, he introduced the audience to the principles and tradition of the international Formula Student competition.

The first application in the Czech Republic, making it possible to analyze the transparent accounts of political parties, cities or public figures in detail, was created by a student of the Faculty of Information Technology of the Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU). The application provides clear and detailed information on account movements, names of contributors, amounts of income and expenditure, and balances. The application was developed in the faculty's OpenDataLab, run by the faculty together with Profinit.

A team from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Faculty of Biomedical Engineering with the support of the Czech Development Agency, is negotiating ways and means to support the newly established study field of biomedical engineering and the position of biomedical engineers in Cambodian hospitals.

Artificial intelligence algorithms will play an increasing role in the search for effective cancer treatments. Machine learning methods can significantly reduce the time, effort and costs associated with the development of new drugs. Computer scientists from the Department of Cybernetics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague are collaborating with scientists from the Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine (IMTM) at the Faculty of Medicine of Palacký University in Olomouc to discover them.

On Wednesday, May 3rd, a collaboration agreement was signed between the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies of the Czech Technical University in Prague (MIAS - CTU) and the Center for Investment, Development and Innovation (CIRI).

Heart disease, diabetes or obesity. The European CoDiet project, supported by the prestigious Horizon Europe programme, will test a new approach to their prevention. Experts from 10 countries, including researchers from the Centre for Artificial Intelligence at the CTU FEL, will use innovative tools to monitor and evaluate patients' eating habits in order to better understand the relationship between food and disease. The outcome of the project will be an AI-based system that will offer people an effective and tailored nutrition plan. Czech scientists will contribute to this personalised nutrition advice by developing optimisation algorithms.

The spring part of the Robotics Competition for younger participants, i.e. from the 2nd grade of primary schools and the corresponding classes of multi-year grammar schools, was held at Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the CTU in Prague on the afternoon of Friday 28 April. Thanks to the high participation of 113 teams, the competition was held in three one-day rounds and three winners emerged: the Gyrotechnici team from the Secondry School Písnická, Prague 4, the Havárie team from Technecia Pardubice and the CRoomba team from the Robotics Centre Plzeň. Altough we don't know the absolute winner, 12 to 16 robots with the best scores will compete one more time - during the superfinal at the Maker Faire Prague festival at the Prague Exhibition Grounds on Sunday 11 June.

How to find the optimal positioning of train passengers to ensure an effective evacuation? How to provide user data to a third party while preserving their anonymity? Students of Faculty of Information Technology of the Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU) find answers to these and other questions within the framework of the student research support program called Research Summer at FIT (VýLeT). Their results are also celebrating success at international conferences. For their independent scientific work, students receive an extraordinary scholarship or financial reward of up to CZK 65,000 from the faculty.

In the Hall of the Year competition, which has been organized by the Faculty of Civil Engineering for many years, the task of 2-3 member student teams is to design a model of a structure according to the assignment, build it and then subject it to a load test until its collapse. The final ranking of the models is determined by the efficiency of the model, i.e. the ratio between the total load capacity of the model and its own weight. This year's edition, which took place on 18-19 April and 21 April 2023, premiered three competition categories - for undergraduates from technical colleges, for high school students and for PhD students - and was marked by enormous student interest.