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Dr. Dalimil Peša, who claims that calculation isn't his strong suit, most enjoys the part of his work where he examines a problem from all angles and waits for inspiration to strike: “This phase is the biggest fun, and what’s great about it is that you can do it practically anywhere – even while taking a walk,” comments smilingly the graduate of Matfyz and the newly awarded recipient of the International Stefan Banach Prize. He is the first Czech ever to achieve this prestigious honour.
The Neuron Foundation honoured top Czech scientists and three of them are Matfyz graduates.
From time to time, searching for specific information in SIS (the Study Information System of CUNI) can be challenging, especially when you need to look across different faculties. Jindřich Bär, a recent graduate of the Master’s programme in Software and Data Engineering at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, decided to change this. As part of a company project and subsequently also his thesis, he developed Charles Explorer, a tool that allows users to search for courses, study programmes, publications, and staff across the entire Charles University.
On November 25, representatives of Ukraine’s Dnipro National University (DNU) visited Matfyz once again, a year after their previous visit.
Ondřej Dušek from the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics has been awarded the prestigious AI Award for his outstanding achievements in the field of natural language generation.
The Dataspecer tool, developed by experts from the Department of Software Engineering at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, achieved success at the prestigious International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). At the 23rd forum, held in mid-November in Baltimore, USA, representatives of CUNI MFF received the Best Demo Award.
The International Magnesium Society has honored Prof. Kristián Máthis of the Department of Physics of Materials with the prestigious International Magnesium Award for Special Contribution on Innovation of the Year. The award recognizes his pioneering work in the in-situ investigation of deformation mechanisms in magnesium alloys.
A team of researchers from Charles University, Aix-Marseille Université, the European Southern Observatory, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other institutions have published two groundbreaking studies in Nature on the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth today.
The series of lectures honouring one of the most significant Czech mathematicians continues. The 23rd Jarník’s Lecture was delivered in September by researcher and ERC grant holder Dr. Erin Carson.
Dr. Felix Schröder, a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Applied Mathematics at Charles University, received the award for the best paper at the Graph Drawing and Network Visualization Conference GD‘24.
A team of scientists from the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, in collaboration with colleagues from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, have made a significant advance in understanding future hydrogen storage technology. Their latest research, published in the ACS Energy Letters, reveal the active configuration of catalysts to generate electricity from hydrogen storage systems.
Iveta Zatočilová graduated at Matfyz in particle and nuclear physics. After completing her master’s studies, she went abroad to gain further experience and is now in her second year of studying and working at one of the oldest universities in Germany. As a PhD student at Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, she is involved, among other things, in the preparation and testing of a new inner detector for the ATLAS experiment at CERN.
Dr. Dalimil Peša, a graduate of the Department of Mathematical Analysis at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics CUNI, has been honoured by the Polish Mathematical Society. He is the first Czech recipient of the International Stefan Banach Prize, which he received at the Ninth Forum of Polish Mathematicians in Katowice. Dr. Peša was recognized for his dissertation focusing on function spaces.
Ondřej Bojar and Dominik Macháček from the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (ÚFAL) at Charles University have obtained a U.S. patent for simultaneous machine translation of speech from multiple language sources. This patent gives the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (Matfyz) exclusive rights to commercialise its research outcomes in the United States. The authors are currently seeking a suitable application partner.
Seven years ago, the Finnish polar observatory Kannuslehto detected a peculiar type of radio waves at audible frequencies— a series of descending whistling tones that persisted throughout the night until morning. These phenomena occur when radio pulses from lightning travel through the plasma environment in the near-Earth space. However, until now, no one had studied the properties of the lightning discharges that generated these signals. This has been accomplished by two Czech scientists in collaboration with a Finnish colleague, with the results published in the journal Nature Communications.
After a year, classroom T1 at MFF UK has been once again hosting workshop with a focus on gravity waves, organized by a research group of the same name at Department of atmospheric physics.
Prague recently hosted the 42nd year of the ICHEP conference, a biennial event showcasing the most significant global advancements in particle physics since the 1950s.
