The Josef Hlávka Prize is awarded to talented students who have proved their exceptional capabilities and creative thinking in their branch of science. Two awards connected to the Institute of Physics went to the Department of Thin Films and Nanostructures and the Division of High Power Systems, the HiLASE project.
The Nobel Prize is connected to the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.
Václav Petříček has received the Charles Barrett Award for development of the theory of incommensurately modulated and composite structures, for utilizing this theory in the computing system Jana2006 and for development of an archiving system of aperiodic structures in the database Powder Diffraction FileTM.
The Grant Agency of the Czech Republic Prize was awarded to Dr Oleksandr Stupakov for the individual postdoctoral project "Development of a new system for measurement of open-circuit ferromagnetic samples with controlled magnetization waveform".
The results of long term research of silicon thin films achieved in the Institute of Physics have been recognized by invitation of RNDr. Jan Kočka, DrSc., head of the Department of Thin Films and Nanostructures of the Institute of Physics, to deliver the plenary “Mott lecture” at the 24th International Conference on Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Semiconductors.
Vítězslav Jarý won the first prize in the H. Becquerel competition which aims to stimulate Czech PhD students and to recognize their successful research activity in the development of utilization of nuclear energy.
Josef Hlavka Prize was awarded to Prof. Dr Ivan Pelant and to associate Prof. Dr Jan Valenta for an original book of scientific literature.
Academy Council took up proposals of Academy prizes and honorary medals on its 30th meeting on June 7, 2011. besides Czech representatives, the Council recommended awarding Professor Dieter Vollhardt from the University of Augsburg for his merits in physical sciences.
Mrs. Vladimíra Petráková, has been awarded the Young Investigator Prize for the Best Oral Presentation in Symposium A, Diamond Electronics and Bioelectronics: From Fundamental to Applications IV, Material Research Society (MRS) Fall 2010 meeting in Boston, U.S.A.
