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Aakash Ravi is a Co-Founder of company called Spaceti and successful alumnus of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University, who was selected as the best international alumnus of the Czech Republic by the Centre for International Cooperation in Education. Here we bring you an interview with him and another Co-Founder of Spaceti and fellow alumnus of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Max Huk.
Czech scientists contributed to several scientific instruments onboard.
A Conference in celebration of the 60th birthday of Prof. Amnon Yekutieli, and the recent publication of his new monograph titled Derived Categories by Cambridge University Press, was held in the School of Mathematics of the Faculty on February 15-16, 2020.
The Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University is delighted to welcome Professor Joanna A. Ellis-Monaghan from Saint Michael's College, Colchester, Vermont, who will be at the faculty this year from 25 January to 8 August 2020 having received the Fulbright-Charles University Distinguished Chair Award from the Fulbright Scholar Program.
A software tool designed for browsing in videos won the first two places in an international contest Video Browser Showdown (VBS) in Daejeon, South Korea.
The Centre for International Cooperation in Education (DZS) announced and awarded last year's best educational projects in Erasmus+, CEEPUS, Euroguidance, eTwinning and Study in the Czech Republic programmes. One of these awards went to Aakash Ravi, alumnus of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University.
The mobile app, created by the CUNI MFF alumni team in 48 hours, will help blind diabetes patients.
The Colloquium ‘Stages of Ethnic and Nationalist Violence: Perspectives of the Global “North” and “South”’, which took place on 1 November 2019 at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, succeeded in bringing together researchers and practitioners from various institutions and introducing cases of ethnic violence occurring in parts of the world that may usually escape the focus of public and scientific discourses dominating the transatlantic space.
Eight scientists – three of them from Charles University – received Neuron Awards at an official ceremony at the National Museum in Prague.
The European spacecraft has successfully passed last tests at the IABG test centre near Munich. Electronics from Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, is also on-board. During oncoming weeks the spacecraft will be transported to Cape Canaveral in Florida, US, to be launched towards the Sun in February 2020.
Jindřich Libovický from the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics got Dimitris N. Chorafas Prize.
Dr. Stanislav Valenta from the Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University was awarded in the competition of research works organized by the French Embassy in the Czech Republic.
The best research works in computational science were awarded the Fourier Prize in Prague at the end of June.
A prestigeous publisher Springer awarded a MathPhys graduate Dr. Peter Kúš. His dissertation thesis was published within a series of “Springer Theses – Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research”.
Five top universities in the Czech Republic have joined forces in founding the Association of Czech Research Universities. Members expect the newly-minted organisation will help them compete among the very best when it comes to international research and education. Four of five rectors signed the agreement in Prague on Tuesday.
The cover of a leading chemical journal, The Journal of Materials Chemistry A highlighted a study by scientists from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in Charles University, Prague, identifying, at the atomic level, the mechanisms contributing to the long term stability and high activity of industrially relevant catalysts.
