Reports
Last year, the image taken in cooperation with the Department of Materials of the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering with the institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic won the competition of the prestigious professional journal Materials Today. It appeared on the cover of one of this year's issues of the magazine as one of ten winning images.
The web application Technical monuments of the Elbe-Vltava waterway will delight tourists, those interested in history and technical monuments before the summer season. The application documents the existing technical historical objects on this waterway and their construction and technological elements and makes them available to the public. At the same time, it offers tips on tourist attractions around rivers. get acquainted with a number of digitized historical documents, maps and drawings. The application https://www.lvvc.cz/ was created under the leadership of doc. Pavel Fošumpaur at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering.
The CoroVent pulmonary ventilator was developed in cooperation with the COVID19CZ initiative and other experts by the team of Professor Karel Roubík from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering. At the end of April, the ventilator was mass-produced by MICo Group company in Třebič under the CTU license. CoroVent is now thriving in Europe as well. It won second place in the EUvsVirus hackathon, the largest pan-European online event of its kind, initiated by the European Commission together with the European Innovation Council. No similar project has emerged in these months in Europe to enter the production and certification phase.
Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, the entire healthcare system has had to protect not only patients, but especially physicians themselves, from Covid-19 infection. But how can one protect himself during demanding neurosurgical operations, during which the operating doctor requires maximum freedom?
A total of 327.5 billion crowns will come from investments to achieve the goal of developing renewable resources, which was set by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic. The amount was calculated by experts from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University and the Chamber of Renewable Energy Sources. According to a study by the Chamber, approximately 70 billion crowns of public support will be needed to trigger these investments. The Modernization Fund will be key, the conditions of which are currently being finalized by the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic.
In the area of the former barracks in Kladno, one of the buildings should be newly used as a teaching base for the study program Laboratory Diagnostics in Healthcare with first-class laboratories of microbiology, immunology, biochemistry and others and with classrooms or lecture rooms.
A virtual music festival of 9 bands and musicians took place in the Lucerna Music Bar from 4.30 pm to 11 pm on Wednesday, 13 May, 2020. The event with the motto "Musicians to Scientists: Man Science of Art Tolerance" was accompanied by the Rector of CTU doc. Vojtěch Petráček.
The Faculty of Information Technology of the Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU) ranks first in the ranking of teams of Czech academic institutions that provided their computing power to the Folding @ home project, and thus became the performance leader in the Czech Republic. The project aims to find a solution to COVID-19.
The Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, which is part of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CIIRC CTU), is strengthening its research teams. Since April, Tomáš Mikolov, an internationally recognized capacity in artificial intelligence research, has taken up the position of head of the research group, working to improve the Google translator, among other things. His arrival at CIIRC ČVUT was also possible thanks to the new RICAIP center project, by which CIIRC ČVUT, together with partners from the Czech Republic and Germany, wants to strengthen its role in the European field of artificial intelligence and robotics research for advanced industry.
The ensemble SALOME - Band of Songs of Karel Kryl for vocals, harp, clarinet and guitar performed in the Bethlehem Chapel during a virtual concert on 5 May. Performers were Pavel Batěk, Barbora Plachá, Tomáš Kůgel and Petr Šťastný. The concert was an acknowledgment to all those who helped in any way in the mitigation of COVID-19, especially to experts and teams involved in a number of projects, but also to those who kept the teaching and research running in difficult conditions.