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Dny otevřených dveří v Matematickém ústavu AV ČR | Open Houses in the Institute of Mathematics CAS

Tradiční Dny otevřených dveří v Matematickém ústavu AV ČR jsou součástí Týdne Akademie věd ČR, nejrozsáhlejšího vědeckého festivalu v ČR pořádaného Akademií věd ČR ve spolupráci s dalšími institucemi ve dnech 31. října – 6. listopadu 2022. Široká veřejnost a především studenti středních škol mají možnost nahlédnout do pracoven, laboratoří a knihoven a poznat, jak se dělá věda. Badatelé z výzkumných pracovišť AV ČR připravují širokou nabídku exkurzí, přednášek, výstav a diskusních večerů, ve kterých představí své výzkumné projekty, předvedou nejmodernější vědecké přístroje a experimenty a přiblíží návštěvníkům nejnovější trendy v oblasti vědy. V Matematickém ústavu AV ČR se Dny otevřených dveří uskuteční na pražském pracovišti ve dnech 31. října – 4. listopadu 2022.

Traditional Open Houses in the Institute of Mathematics CAS is held as part of the Week of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the most extensive scientific festival in the Czech Republic, organized by the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with other institutions from October 31st to  November 6th, 2022. The scientists from the research workplaces of the Academy of Sciences have prepared a wide offer of lectures, presentations, panel discussions, seminars, excursions, exhibitions and discussion evenings, in which they present their research projects, modern scientific devices and outline the latest trends in science. The Institute of Mathematics will be open to public from October 31st to November 4th, 2022.

O nás (krátké video) | About us (short video)



  Nabídka přednášek v MÚ AV ČR | Lectures offered in the Institute of Mathematics
  Aktuální program | Current program
  Anketa pro účastníky Týdne Akademie věd

Michal Hrbek received the Czech Mathematical Society Prize

The president of the Czech Mathematical Society, Prof Luboš Pick, awarded Dr Michal Hrbek the Czech Mathematical Society Prize for Young Researchers during the ceremony at the Conference of Czech Mathematicians in Ostrava on April 5, 2022.
The aim of the prize is to support undergraduate and graduate students and younger researchers in their interest in theoretical and applied mathematics. The Czech Mathematical Society Prize is awarded once in four years to at most four researchers or teams for papers or collections of research papers in theoretical or applied mathematics published or accepted for publishing in peer-reviewed journals or conference proceedings within the last four years.

Jan Papež received the Otto Wichterle Award

Professor Eva Zažímalová, the president of the Czech Academy of Sciences, granted Dr Jan Papež, the promising researcher of the Institute of Mathematics, the Otto Wichterle Award on June 20, 2022, during the ceremony in Villa Lanna. Dr Jan Papež was among 25 perspective researchers who received the Otto Wichterle Award this year. Czech Academy of Sciences grants this honourable award to stimulate and encourage selected, exceptionally outstanding scientists under the age of 35, employed in the institutes of the Academy, for their remarkable contributions to the advancement of scientific knowledge in their areas of science. Sincere congratulations.

Geometric and functional inequalities, function spaces and PDEs

International conference dedicated to the 60th birthday of Andrea Cianchi will take place in the Institute of Mathematics CAS on February 6-8, 2023. The purpose of the conference is to bring together experts in the fields mentioned in its title. The programme will consist of invited lectures and a poster session. Students and young researchers are welcome. No conference fee is required.

Memorial seminar dedicated to Prof. Jindřich Nečas - 20th anniversary of his death

Necas Seminar on Continuum Mechanics together with Mathematical branch of Prague  of  the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists will organize  Memorial seminar dedicated to  Prof. Jindřich Nečas - 20th  anniversary of his death (5.12.2002). It will take place in Institute of Mathematics,
Žitná 25, Praha 1, library on December 5th, 2022 from 15:30.

  Seminar website
  poster

Problems in Acoustics

Special joint workshop: "Problems in Acoustics"  of the working group in fluid mechanics and Bobcat Doosan company supported by the Czech Academy of Sciences in the framework of program "Hopes and risks of the digital era" of the Strategy AV21. It will take place in Institute of Mathematics on December 6th, 2022 from 9:00.

  Programme

Podpora Ukrajině / Support of Ukraine

Matematický ústav AV ČR odsuzuje agresi Ruské federace proti Ukrajině, plně se ztotožňuje s prohlášením Akademie věd ČR o podpoře Ukrajiny a vyzývá k okamžitému ukončení bojů a zahájení mírových jednání.
Matematický ústav se dále ztotožňuje s výzvou ukrajinských matematiků (k dispozici také níže). Výzva uvádí sedm konkrétních bodů, jak Ukrajinu podpořit, včetně odkazu na petici vyzývající NATO k ochraně vzdušného prostoru Ukrajiny.
Dále vítá statečné iniciativy ruských kolegů, kteří proti válce otevřeně protestují. Zaznamenali jsme otevřený dopis ruských matematiků prezidentu Putinovi (původní verze ze dne 28.2.2022), otevřený dopis vědeckých novinářů (původní verze ze dne 24.2.2022) a prohlášení studentů a pracovníků Lomonosovy univerzity.
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Institute of Mathematics condemns the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, fully endorses the statement of the Czech Academy of Sciences supporting Ukraine, and calls for instant termination of fights and opening of peace negotiations.
Institute of Mathematics further endorses the Appeal from Ukrainian mathematicians (available below). The appeal lists seven specific points on how to support Ukraine, including a reference to a petition calling on NATO to protect Ukraine's airspace.
The Institute also welcomes the brave initiatives of Russian colleagues who openly protest against the war. We are aware of the open letter from Russian mathematicians to President Putin (original version from February 28, 2022), the open letter from scientific journalists (original version from February 24, 2022) and the statement by students and academic staff of Lomonosov University.

  Appeal from Ukrainian mathematicians
  Open letter from Russian mathematicians to Putin

Help for refugees

- Neuron Endowment Fund and IOCB Tech financially support young Ukrainian scientists who seek refuge in the Czech Republic. Institute of Mathematics welcomes this initiative and is ready to cooperate for project implementations.
- Offers of European Research Centres on Mathematics (ERCOM) to mathematicians fleeing from the recent war
- Refugee facilities administration of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic
- Assistance portal of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic (Czech and Ukrainian)
- Stand with Ukraine
- Help for Ukraine, web portal of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Science for Ukraine, job offers in science and research

Jaroslav Kurzweil passed away

With sorrow, we announce that professor Jaroslav Kurzweil passed away on Thursday, March 17, 2022, at the age of 95. Professor Kurzweil was the first director of the Institute of Mathematics after the Velvet Revolution and then its emeritus researcher. He was one of the outstanding representatives of Czechoslovak mathematics, who significantly contributed to the development of Czech and world mathematics as a  pioneer of the theory of generalized integration and a leading figure in the qualitative theory of differential equations. He was recognized even outside of the mathematical community as a person of firm principles and clear opinions. We will miss this excellent colleague, kind and good man. Honour his memory!

  Obituary in Czech
  Obituary in English

The eighteenth Eduard Čech Lecture: Ramamohan Paturi (University of California, San Diego)

Professor Ramamohan Paturi delivered the representative lecture on Monday, May 16, 2022, at 10 am, in the blue lecture room of the Institute of Mathematics. The lecture was streamed live via Zoom and its recording is available on YouTube.
The distinguished Eduard Čech Lectures are held to commemorate one of the most eminent Czech mathematicians and a founder of the Institute and are directed to a general mathematical audience.
Professor Ramamohan Paturi is the fifth Eduard Čech Distinguished Visitor. The eighteenth Eduard Čech Lecture is a part of his research programme at the Institute of Mathematics.

  Invitation to the Eduard Čech Lecture
  Details of the lecture

Mathematical Fluid Mechanics In 2022

The conference will take place in the Institute of Mathematics, CAS, Žitná 25, Prague 1, Czech Republic, on August 22 – 26, 2022.
The aim of the conference is to bring together renowned specialists in the analytical and numerical fields of mathematical fluid mechanics. Invited talks will cover results and open questions in the dynamics of fluids, including fluid-solid interaction and rheological effects, in the incompressible, compressible, and inviscid cases. Furthermore, topics closely related to practical applications will be considered, like the modelling of turbulence, stratified fluid flows and some related homogenization questions. Numerical theory and simulations regarding the above problems will also be a core theme.

ICM 2022 moved on-line

Many mathematical societies around the world condemned the Russian Federation's aggression against Ukraine and in this context questioned the holding of ICM 2022 in St. Petersburg in July this year. The Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) has decided that:

• The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2022 will take place as a fully virtual event, hosted outside Russia but following the original time schedule planned for Saint Petersburg.
• Participation in the virtual ICM event will be free of charge.
• The IMU General Assembly (GA) will take place as an in-person event outside Russia.
• A prize ceremony will be held the day after the IMU GA, at the same venue as the IMU GA, for the awarding of the 2022 IMU prizes.
• The dates for the ICM and the GA will remain unaltered.

  Statement of the Czech Mathematical Society and the Czech National Committee for Mathematics

  Statement of the Executive Board of the European Mathematical Society on ICM 2022 in Russia

  The Czech Academy of Sciences supports scientists in Ukraine