Reports

The International Union of Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine (IUPESM) elected assoc. prof. Lenka Lhotská, head of the Cognitive Systems and Neuroscience group at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University, as Fellow of the IUPESM. The recipients of this IUPESM Honour were be announced at World Congress 2022 in Singapore in the end June.

The unique set of wheeled, tracked, flying and walking robotic systems at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague has been expanded by two SPOT robots with a robotic arm. The SPOTs from Boston Dynamics arrived at Charles Square a few weeks ago, so the team of roboticists and computer scientists is still getting acquainted with them. However, one of them has already had its first test run.

In June 2022, the President signed the appointment decrees of university professors based on the proposals of the scientific and artistic councils of universities. CTU in Prague now has 11 new professors.

Two PhD students from the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering have succeeded in this year's prestigious scientific award for young scientists in the field of nuclear physics. The first prize of the Henri Becquerel Prize, a scientific award issued by the French Embassy in the Czech Republic, this year went to Pavel Suk from the Department of Nuclear Reactors, while the third prize went to Marek Sommer from the Department of Dosimetry and Ionizing Radiation, who works at the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Řež.

An assembly of the Council of Rectors of Universities associated in the CESAER organization was held at the CTU in Prague. Radka Wildová, Deputy Minister of Education for the Management of the Section of Higher Education, Science and Research, also attended part of the meeting on Friday. The meeting - as a representative of the home university - was opened by the Rector of CTU Vojtěch Petráček. He also became a special CESAER envoy for the upcoming period when the Czech Republic will hold the Presidency of the European Union.

On 22 June 2022, the ŠKODA Museum in Mladá Boleslav hosted the unveiling of two new Formula Student monoposts, which were created by students of the Czech Technical University in Prague under the auspices of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Specifically, they are the 11th generation of the piloted electric formula and an innovative autonomously controlled monopost.

Detect attacker activity, find system vulnerabilities, or find out what is the effect of a malicious code. This is also what a class of participants in the Cyber Summer School can do just before the end of the school year. Eighteen students, mostly high school students, gathered at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague on Monday, 20 June for an initial four-day camp.

Among other events that were part of VědaFest (this year subtitled Science from A to Z), a ceremonial signing of a memorandum of cooperation between the two schools took place on Dejvice's Vítězné náměstí on Wednesday, 22 June 2022. It may not show at first glance, but these are close more than just geographically.

Another 16 graduates received a certificate at the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies of the Czech Technical University in Prage certifying successful completion of the Specific Course for Coaches professional programme.

Vojtěch Janeček and Dagmar Bendová won first and second place in the Milan Odehnal Award for 2022. They were joined by Jakub Cimerman, who received an honorable mention. All three award winners are from the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague (FJFI).