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Open Position – Junior Research Team Leader

5 Jan 2012

Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the ASCR, v. v. i. invites applications for the position of junior team leaders in the field of biochemistry and molecular biology.

Seminar – Particle Physics in Transition

4 Jan 2012

Institute of Physics ASCR invites you to a seminar Particle Physics in Transition by prof. Max Klein of the University of Liverpool on January 11th, 2012 at 15:00.

Czech President Václav Havel passed away

18 Dec 2011

Former Czech and Czechoslovakia president Václav Havel died at 75 at his country home in Hradeček, north of Prague. Václav Havel’s last public appearance was on December 10, 2011 when he met with his close friend Dalai Lama and signed an appeal in support of dissidents around the world. Václav Havel first came to international fame as a dissident playwright in the 1970s through his involvement with the human rights manifesto Charter 77. He was prosecuted for his stances and spent almost five years in prison; his prison stay contributed to his later health problems. He became the first post-communist Czechoslovak president in late 1989. In 1993–2003 he was the first president of the independent Czech Republic. The Czech cabinet is to meet for a special session on Monday to consider a date of a National Day of Mourning.

Junior Ambassadors of Science and Technology

12 Dec 2011

Six Czech students were recognized as Junior Ambassadors for their achievements in science and technology at the Academy of Sciences on December 12, 2011. Five boys and one girl were chosen under the Junior Ambassadors of Science and Technology pilot program launched in July 2011 by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the U.S. Embassy in Prague and American companies operating in the Czech Republic.

Europa Nostra Award for Tomáš Durdík

19 Oct 2011

The European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Awards celebrate excellence in cultural heritage conservation, ranging from the restoration of buildings and their adaptation to new uses, to urban and rural landscape rehabilitation, archaeological site interpretations, and care for art collections. Moreover, it highlights research, dedicated service to heritage conservation by individuals or organisations and education projects related to cultural heritage. The awards are supported by the European Commission in the framework of the Culture Programme. Europa Nostra is in charge of organising the selection and the award ceremony.

World-leading scientists will shed new light on climate

15 Sep 2011

World-leading climate scientists gather in Germany 18-23 September 2011 to present new research on how Earth’s land areas – forests, soils, permanently frozen regions, deserts, croplands and pastures – affect the global climate.

The key breakthroughs will come in future from exceptional physicists, not from philosophers

14 Sep 2011

Martin Rees is Master of Trinity College and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. He holds the honorary title of Astronomer Royal and also Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and at Leicester University. After studying at the University of Cambridge, he held post-doctoral positions in the UK and the USA, before becoming a professor at Sussex University. In 1973, he became a fellow of King's College and Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge (continuing in the latter post until 1991) and served for ten years as director of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy. From 1992 to 2003 he was a Royal Society Research Professor.

European Heritage Days in Château Liblice

30 Aug 2011

The Czech Society for Mechanics decided to institute Z.P. Bazant Prize for Engineering Mechanics

17 Aug 2011

The Prize is to be given annually. The prize will include a monetary award of 1200 USD. The charter of the prize is attached. The deadline for accepting this year's contribution is December 31, 2011. Dr. Zdenek P. Bazant, McCormick Institute Professor at Northwestern University, Evanston, member of NAS, NAE and AAAS, and a famous alumnus of CTU in Prague.

Tony Martinek have been named as the 2011 recipients of the Blake H. Gooding Memorial Award

21 Jun 2011

Conestoga’s developers of an exam program for Certified Engineering Technologists and Technicians will be recognized for their significant contribution to the profession at a gala awards ceremony to be held in Toronto in October 2011. Tony Martinek, P.Eng., former Dean of Conestoga’s School of Engineering Technology and Principal of the Doon Campus, and Jeff Schelling, LLB, corporate solicitor for the Regional Government of Waterloo, have been named as the 2011 recipients of the Blake H. Gooding Memorial Award bestowed by the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (0ACETT), as professional association established in 1962 to maintain high standards for the profession of Engineering/Applied Science Technology.