6th European Congress of Mathematics: July 2-7, 2012 in Krakow (Poland)

On Monday, July 2, the doors opened to the 6th European Congress of Mathematics in the beautiful historic city of Krakow in Poland. Since 1992, the European Mathematical Society invites every four years mathematicians from all over the world to this important event. Previous congresses have been held in Paris, Budapest, Barcelona, Stockholm and Amsterdam. This year, the congress is organized by colleagues from the Polish Mathematical Society and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, chaired by Prof Stefan Jackowski (Warsaw). The scientific programme has been arranged by international Scientific Committee chaired by Prof. Eduard Feireisl (Institute of Mathematics AS CR). The Polish President, Mr. Bronislaw Komorowski has accepted the honorary patronage for the congress.

Close to 1.000 mathematicians are expected to participate in the congress that is taking place over a whole week at the Auditorium Maximum of the Jagellionian University. During the opening ceremony on Monday morning a total of 12 prizes installed by the European Mathematical Society were awarded by EMS President Prof Marta Sanz-Solé (Barcelona, Spain) to laureates selected by three prize committees.

The monetary value of each prize is 5000 Euro. All prize winners have been invited to deliver lectures at 6ECM.

  Prize-winners

The Bernard Bolzano Honorary Medal for Merit in Mathematical Sciences awarded to Prof. Michal Křížek

The Academy Council awarded Professor RNDr. Michal Křížek, DrSc., the Bernard Bolzano Honorary Medal for Merit in Mathematical Sciences. The medal was presented to him by the Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Prof. Miroslav Tůma on 2 May during the conference ''Applications of Mathematics 2012" held in honour of the 60th birthday of M. Křížek.

  The medal
  Presentation of the medal

Professor Miroslav Krbec passed away

With deep sorrow, we have to announce that on Sunday, June 17, the Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Mathematics, Professor Miroslav Krbec, passed away. We have lost a brilliant mathematician, a reliable colleague, and a faithful friend. We all will miss him.

Pavel Krejčí, Director

  obituary (in czech)

Non-homogeneous fluids and flows: Summer school and workshop, Praha, 27-31 August 2012

The aim of the summer school is to present a comprehensive series of lectures on various aspects of non-homogeneous fluids and flows. The emphasize will be on mathematical, computational and experimental topics originating in environmental applications. The summer course is prepared for graduate students, young scientists, and other interested specialists. Besides of the course lectures, the program will include a one day workshop (on Wednesday, August 29) dedicated to short, more advanced lectures given by attending scientists.

Lectures:
Vincenzo Armenio (University of Trieste), Chantal Staquet (University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble), Vladimir Zeitlin (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris), Eleuterio F. Toro (University of Trento), Eduard Feireisl (Institute of Mathematics AS CR, Prague), Antonín Novotný (Université du Sud, Toulon), Dmitri Kuzmin (University of Erlangen-Nürenberg), Yuli D. Chaschechkin (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), Philippe Fraunié (Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Toulon)

Organizing committee:
Šárka Nečasová, Tomáš Bodnár, Milan Pokorný

  Summer School Announcement

EVEQ 2012: International Summer School on Evolution Equations, Praha, 9-13 July 2012

The summer school is organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University and the Institute of Mathematics AS CR as the activity of the Jindřich Nečas Center for Mathematical Modeling.
EVEQ 2012 is also a satellite meeting of the 6th European Congress of Mathematics which will be held in Kraków, July 2-7, 2012.

Lectures:
Helmut Abels (Universität Regensburg), Adrian Constantin (Universität Wien), David Gérard-Varet (Université Denis Diderot Paris 7), Igor Rodnianski (Princeton University), Sylvia Serfaty (Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Université Pierre et Marie Curie), Ulisse Stefanelli (Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche, Pavia)

Organizing committee:
Miroslav Bulíček (executive organizer), Eduard Feireisl, Pavel Krejčí, Josef Málek, Vít Průša, Lenka Bauerová (secretary), Jana Pešková (secretary).

  EVEQ 2012

New Board of the Institute for 2012-2017

The five year term of the Board of the Institute expires by the end of January 2012. New members of the Board have been elected by the Assembly of Research Workers of the Institute on November 25-28 (first round) and December 9-12 (second round).

The new Board consists of 7 internal members (M. Engliš, E. Feireisl, R. Hakl, M. Markl, V. Müller, S. Nečasová, M. Tvrdý) and 5 external members (Z. Došlá, P. Drábek, J. Hamhalter, B. Maslowski, I. Netuka). V. Pravda received a sufficient number of votes as well, and will be ready to join the Board in case that somebody resigns.

  Election report, 1st round (in Czech)
  Election report, 2nd round (in Czech)

International Audit of Research, Development & Innovation in the Czech Republic - Final Report

An international consortium of several institutions from different European countries worked for 18 months on the order of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports to deliver a uniquely broad study on the system of the research and development in the Czech Republic. The extensive, most interesting and useful final report is now available:

  Web pages of the MEYS, where the report is available

The 8th Eduard Čech Lecture: Hans Triebel, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Title: Function spaces: past, present, future

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 2 p.m., in the main lecture hall of the Institute of Mathematics

Abstract: We describe how classical and recent instruments and techniques in the theory of function spaces evolved over the time:
1. Derivatives and differences, Sobolev, Nikol’skij-Besov, 1930s–1960s
2. Fourier-analytical instruments, 1960s–1970s
3. Interpolation, 1960s, 1970s
4. Building blocks (atoms, wavelets), 1990s, up to our time
5. Merging with Morrey type spaces, our time

The distiguished Eduard Čech Lectures held to commemorate the one of the most eminent Czech mathematicians and founder of the Institute are directed to a general mathematical audience.

Presentation of the lecture:

  Invitation leaflet

Differential Equations - Stochastic & Deterministic, Prague, June 13-14, 2011

Ivo Vrkoč celebrated his eightieth birthday on June 10, 2011. On this occasion, Ivo’s former students and recent coauthors decided to organise a small colloquium devoted to some of the topics Ivo has contributed to significantly, namely the qualitative theory of ordinary differential equations and stochastic analysis. The colloquium will be held in the Institute of Information Theory and Automation AS CR in Praha. Honouring his significant life work the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic awarded Ivo Vrkoč the Bernard Bolzano Honorary Medal for Merit in the Mathematical Sciences.

Programme of the colloquium:

  Photographs
  Official Website

A tribute to Miroslav Fiedler on his 85th birthday

The Institute of Computer Science AS CR and the Institute of Mathematics AS CR organized a celebration seminar in villa Lanna on 7 June 2011. Professor Frank J. Hall from Georgia State University, Atlanta, delivered a lecture to honour Professor Miroslav Fiedler and his outstanding life work.

  Photographs
  Report in the Academic Bulletin