Reports

After a two-year break, the University Information Centre was reopened yesterday at the CTU rectorate. The ribbon was ceremoniously cut by the Rector of CTU Vojtěch Petráček.

The second edition of the EuroTeQaThon international competition took place at the Technical University of Munich from 23 to 25 November. The best student work from the Collider project course, which is run under the umbrella of the EuroTeQ alliance, made it to this final round. The Alliance brings together top technical universities: Technical University of Munich, Technical University of Denmark, Technical University of Eindhoven, École Polytechnique, Tallinn University of Technology, CTU in Prague, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and Technion Israel Institute of Technology. The challenge itself came from EuroTeQ's industrial partners, and the proposed themes were linked to the "Leave no Waste Behind" challenge. GasNet launched the "Optimisation of power production at gas pressure reduction facilities". The winner in this category was a team of students from CTU who developed the topic "A New Life for Waste Heat". The students from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering will present their solutions on 19 and 20 January 2023 at the European Commission in Brussels.

The Golem Tokamak from Faculty of Nuclear Science and Physical Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague (FJFI) served as a teaching tool for Penn State University students in mid-November without them having to travel to Prague. They first listened to a lecture about this unique device and then performed several high-temperature plasma discharges remotely on their own.

OI graduate Jiří Ulrich is in the final of the prestigious IT SPY 2022 competition with his diploma thesis "Multicamera localization system based on black and white pattern detection". In it, he presents a multicamera localization system that detects black-and-white circular WhyCode reference marks based on an improved algorithm, determines their position and orientation in space, and uniquely identifies them. Built on inexpensive and widely available cameras, the WhyCode system represents an affordable localization system as an alternative to current expensive and closed systems with specialized hardware.

The final presentations of the projects created within the EuroTeQ Collider course took place at Faculty of Civil Engineering on 14 November. The assignment itself came from the industrial partners of the EuroTeQ alliance and the proposed topics were linked to the "Leave no Waste Behind" challenge. The jury was most impressed by the projects "ComSIC"; Optimising placement of combined charging lights in the city, "A New Life for Waste Heat" and "Optimum Recycle".

Versatility, ease of use and attractive design were the key words of the research team of students from FEL CTU and UMPRUM as they developed a device for recording spatial sound in the open-source world. Their achievement is apparent by their participation in this year's DesignBlock.

17th November. Not only the Day of the Struggle for Freedom and Democracy, but after a long break, also the International Student Day, which has been recognised in the Czech Republic for several years.

Rector of CTU in Prague doc. Vojtěch Petráček attended a commemorative event at Hlávka dormitory on Thursday 17th November, where he delivered a speech.

The JUNIOR STAR Grants, awarded by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GA ČR) on 4 November 2022, are intended to promote excellence in budding outstanding scientists. This will enable two scientists from Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Ing. Jakub Cikhardt, Ph.D. from the Department of Physics and Ing. Robert Pěnička, Ph.D. from the Department of Cybernetics, to fund their basic research projects, which are expected to have a significant scientific impact on a global scale, over the next five years.

The audio guide contains original sound recordings and memories of direct participants of the parade from Prague's Albertov to Národní třída. Anyone can directly follow the steps of the students who started the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia.