Reports

The diploma theses of five FA graduates were awarded in the 23rd edition of the Diploma competition. Anna Laubová took the second place, and David Foud took the third place. Special prizes were awarded to Jakub Kuchař, Kristýna Mastná and Klára Pavelková. The award ceremony took place on 5 December at the Prague Centre for Architecture and Urban Planning.

Samuel Lukeš, a doctoral student at the Department of Physics at Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, received the Minister of Education's Award for Outstanding Students and Graduates in the Study Programme and for Outstanding Student Achievements. He received the award at a ceremony at the Senate building on Monday, December 12, 2022.

The final of the Qminers Quant Hackathon took place at FEL CTU on Saturday, 26 November. The competition in algorithmic sports betting was organized by the Department of Computers of Faculty of Electrical Engineering (Intelligent Data Analysis - IDA group) and the technology company Qminers. The absolute winner was the four-member team Shimando led by PhD student Šimon Mandlík from FEL. Thanks to their clever strategy, they beat 29 university teams from all over the Czech Republic. Together with the teams from MatFyz, which finished in 2nd and 3rd place, they shared the total financial prize of CZK 100,000.

The National Centre for Industry 4.0 has prepared the Czech Industry Analysis 3/2022 on the occasion of the independent debate of industry personalities - the Czech Industry Barometer, which will take place on 8 December. The analysis is based on data obtained during 213 interviews with key representatives of selected Czech industry companies, the management of industrial associations and other experts of Czech industry. The survey was conducted between September and November 2022.

National Centre for Industry 4.0 has prepared the Czech Industry Analysis 3/2022 on the occasion of the independent debate of industry personalities - the Czech Industry Barometer, which will take place on 8 December. The analysis is based on data obtained during 213 interviews with key representatives of selected Czech industry companies, the management of industrial associations and other experts of Czech industry. The survey was conducted in September-November 2022.

A significant success was achieved by a graduate of the Bachelor's degree programme Biomedical Engineering and a student of the follow-up Master's degree programme Biomedical Engineering Bc. Jakub Kollár, who together with his co-authors from the Bio-electromagnetism team, published the results of his bachelor thesis as first author in the prestigious journal Cancers (according to WOS the journal's impact factor is 6.56 and the journal belongs to the first quartile in the field of Oncology).

Bc. Ksenia Kulakova, a 1st year student of the English Biomedical Engineering master´s programme at CTU Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, placed second in the final of the SHE Award competition, held in Brno on 24 November 2022, for the best bachelor thesis of female graduates of technical disciplines! This nominated her for the WE Local conference in Barcelona, where she will present her current research topic to an audience of academics and industry representatives.

Czech Technical University in Prague awarded its best students with the Stanislav Hanzel Prize on the occasion of the International Student Day on 17 November. The students received the prize in Bethlehem Chapel during the festive concert of Engineering Academy of the Czech Republic from the hands of the Rector of Czech Technical University in Prague doc. RNDr. Vojtěch Petráček, CSc. and doc. Ing. Antonín Pokorný, CSc., Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the CTU Foundation Stanislav Hanzel.

On Wednesday, November 30, the consortium Study in Prague hosted the 2nd annual ceremony of the Extraordinary Scholarship prof. Miroslav Vlček for exemplary representation of university studies in the Czech Republic.

Ing. Jiří Ulrich won the title of the best diploma thesis in computer science in the IT SPY 2022 competition. A graduate of the Open Informatics programme, he is currently working as a PhD student at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science. He won the prestigious competition with his thesis on Multicamera Localization System Based on Black and White Pattern Detection. As a prize, he received 2,000 euros for further development of the project from the software company PROFINIT, which organizes the competition.