09/2005

Academic bulletin 09/2005

EDITORIAL

Royal crypt
The Old Secret Mortuary place of the royal crypt in the Svatovitská Cathedral in the Prague Castle (unearthed in the past but for 130 years had been forgotten) has inspired the interest of many publicists during this year.

INTERVIEW

"I wish to make known works of our scientists abroad"
Interview with Jitka Zykánová, leader of the Academia Publishing House. For 40 years will have passed in January 2006, since many books have the symbol of Academia.

SCIENCE AND RESEARCH

Czech historiographers at the world congress in Sydney
Anniversary of the 20th congress of historical sciences 3.–9. July 2005 was characterized by a large and varied attendance of the Czech scientists.

Czech Women’s Team in Rio de Janeiro
A team of three Czech scientists, Drs. Raji Heyrovská, Milada Glogarová, and Jarmila Kodymová, from the ASCR returned from the 2nd IUPAP International conference on Women in Physics held in Rio de Janeiro.

Seminar about the communist security apparatus in Warsaw
More than 350 historiographers and polimetricians from 19 countries got together for an international scientific seminar on the communist security apparatus in central and eastern Europe from 1944–1989.

4^th European & African Conference on Wind Engineering
Specific attention was traditionally dedicated to the questions of wind engineering in Africa – problems of wind registration and the possibility to produce the energy through wind power-stations.

AWARDS
Prizes of the Czech Science Foundation, GAČR, in 2004
Works of three research teams were awarded the Prize of the President of GAČR.