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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.
The Combinatorial Structures and Processes (CoSP) project supported research secondments of 52 scientists at prestigious universities in the US and Canada. These included Rutgers University, Princeton University, Simon Fraser University and the University of California, Berkeley. Scientists from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (MFF UK) and its partner institutions, the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and the Israel‘s Technion, spent a total of 143.5 months across the Atlantic Ocean.
Matfyz has received a grant to realize prestigious projects from the European Horizon Europe programme (ERA Chair scheme). With the help of a leading expert from the Sorbonne in Paris, Michel Grabisch, the AGATE research centre (Algorithmic Game Theory in Socioeconomics) will be established at our faculty.
An article on Hamiltonian graphs, authored by PhD student Nikola Jedličková and Prof. Jan Kratochvíl from the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, received the Best Paper Award at the international conference IWOCA 2024.
Get ready for the particle physics event of the year! From July 18–24, the global scientific community will gather at the Prague Congress Centre for ICHEP 2024, the International Conference on High Energy Physics. This renowned conference, famous for groundbreaking announcements like the Higgs boson discovery in 2012, promises to unveil the latest findings from the depths of the microcosm.
Patrik Dokoupil, a doctoral student at the Department of Software Engineering at Charles University’s Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, received an award at the international ACM UMAP 2024 conference, held in early July on the Italian island of Sardinia. His paper User Perceptions of Diversity in Recommender Systems earned him the James Chen Best Student Paper Award as the first author. The paper triumphed among more than 90 publications.
Associate Professor Jan Kynčl and doctoral student Jan Soukup from the DiGeo discrete geometry group at the Department of Applied Mathematics of Matfyz CUNI, received an award at the international conference WG 2024 in Slovenia. They won the main prize, the Best Paper Award, for solving a problem in the field of discrete geometry.
The Big Bang Stage and other stages of the festival will once again enrich the Colours of Ostrava festival with a scientific program. The 70th anniversary of CERN's founding will be commemorated by a lecture delivered by Director General Fabiola Gianotti. Dana Drábová will talk about the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer. The program will feature not only speakers but also physical experiments, „singing“ elementary particles, and artistic battles with a scientific twist.
In June, an international astronomical conference called Symbiotic Stars, Weird Novae, and Related Embarrassing Binaries took place at our faculty. The lectures and subsequent discussions included remarkable binary systems that still surprise us with their behaviour, sudden bursts of flare, massive matter transfer, or expanding common envelope.
The Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the CUNI was visited by a delegation from the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU). Representatives of the College of Science of NTNU and Matfyz talked about possibilities of cooperation in mathematics, physics, and other fields.
Few people are lucky enough to belong among the Oscar nominees, one of them is also Tereza Kotěšovcová, a graduate of Matfyz and FAMU. However, the talk is not about awards for best films, but about a prestigious competition of independent computer games. The young developer was nominated as one of the six competitors in the category of Best Student Game at the Independent Games Festival in San Francisco this year and she presented her graduate game called “Planetka”.
Matfyz team consisting of three students represented Charles University at the global finals of the prestigious International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).
Malach Centre for Visual History – a workplace that provides access to several tens of thousands of eyewitness accounts of the tragic events of the 20th century. Extensive audiovisual recordings also serve as “training” data in the development of new computer technologies. However, it is not solely open to researchers and students, but also to the general public, and that has stood for 14 years.
The cover page of the current issue of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics highlights research by scientists from Charles University and their colleagues from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg dealing with properties of cerium oxide nanoparticles in the alkaline electrolyte.
