May 11 Hynek Bíla defended today at the Charles University a PhD thesis entitled "Pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians in quantum physics" written under supervision of Miloslav Znojil. Congratulations!
March 30 Takuya Mine from Kyoto joined us for a year as a DI Visiting Professor.
March 20 Raouf Dridi left us heading for a new position in France. Good luck!
January 6
A new postdoc: Bernhard Burgstaller who defended a PhD at the Johannes Keppler University in Linz in 2003 joined us starting a one-year position.
2008
December 31 Best wishes to all the DI members, students, and
visitors for the New Year 2009. In particular, congratulations to our recent PhD graduates, Peter Baláži,
L'ubomíra Balková,
Martin Fraas, and Pavel Hejčík. The coming year is a challenge for the Doppler Institute because it will host a big event, the
16th International Congress on Mathematical Physics. Let us wish that this responsible task and the whole year be happy and successful for all of us!
November 25 At the Czech Technical University Council meeting several Doppler Institute results were distiguished. Igor Jex together with Vojtěch Košťák and G.M. Nikopoulos were awarded 2nd Class Rector Science Prize for the paper Perfect state transfer in network of arbitrary topology and coupling configuration, see DI06-039. Furthermore, Jiří Hrivnák and Milena Svobodová were awarded Rector Prizes for an outstanding PhD theses. Congratulations to all of them!
October 14 Denis Borisov who spent a year
and a half with us defended today in Ufa a thesis for his DSc degree, based in part on the work which he did in the DI. Congratulations!
October 14 Igor Jex gave an
interview about quantum optics to the Leonardo channel of Czech Radio.
September 1 Two other postdocs finished their stay in the Doppler Institute. Claudio Cacciapuoti left for another postdoc position in Bonn, and
Mark Harmer for a not yet specified position in Australia. Good luck, guys!
August 21
Our expatriate student Pavel Hejčík defended today at the Kochi University of Technology a PhD thesis entitled "Properties of simple quantum graphs", his supervisor there was Taksu Cheon. Congratulations!
August 16
The summer school and workshop Algebraic structures ended successfully in Telč.
June 26 Junhua Chen left us heading for a new carreer in China. Good luck!
June 25 One more PhD successfully finished: Martin Fraas defended today a thesis entitled "Models of quantum systems with strong singular interactions" prepared under the supervision of
Pavel Exner. Congratulations!
May 30
The conference Journees de Numeration taking place in the Department of Mathematics of the CTU ended successfully.
May 23 We have two new PhD graduates. L'ubomíra Balková defended today a thesis entitled "Beta-integers and quasicrystals"; she was supervized by Zuzana
Masáková from CTU and Jean-Pierre Gazeau from Universite Paris 7. Earlier, on March 14, Peter Baláži defended a thesis under the title "Three interval exchange transformation" prepared under the supervision of Edita Pelantová. Congratulations to both!
December 31 Best wishes to all the DI members, students, and
visitors for the New Year 2008. In particular, congratulations to our recent PhD graduates, Ondřej Lev, Hynek Lavička, Jaroslav Novotný, Milena Svobodová, and Jiří Hrivnák.
Let the coming year be happy and successful for all of us!
November 30
The Václav Votruba Prize 2007 was awarded to Miroslav Ježek for the thesis Quantum measurement and reconstruction with applications in optics. Congratulations!
November 17
After half a year with us, Andrea Mantile left for a new position in Rennes. Good luck!
November 1
Michael Krbek from Brno joined us for two months as a postdoc.
October 15
Jiří Patera joined us for two months as a DI Visiting Professor.
September 19 Junhua Chen who defended a PhD in St Louis this spring and then returned briefly to China joined us starting a one-year postdoc position.
September 18 Denis Kochan from Bratislava joined us
again, this time for three months.
September 1
After more then a year with us, Tamas Fulop left for a new position in Hungary. Good luck!
April 1 This time sad news: a frequent visitor of DI, a coauthor of
some of us and a friend of many more, Vladimir Geyler, passed away today in
Cambridge, a month before his 64th birthday. Memories of this good man and excellent
scientist will be long with us.
March 31 Vít
Jakubský left us for a postdoc position in Santiago de Chile. Good luck!
February 9 Two one-day meetings under the common title Analytic and algebraic methods in physics will be organized on
February 20
and
April 3 in Villa Lanna.