Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

ERC Consolidator Grant for Michal Koucký

Our long-time researcher Michal Koucký has been awarded ERC Consolidator Grant for the project "LBCAD – Lower bounds for combinatorial algorithms and dynamic problems" for 2014–2018. The project aims to show that known, somewhat efficient, algorithms for various problems cannot be substantially improved.

The Neuron Grant 2013 awarded to Michal Koucký

Doc. Mgr. Michal Koucký, Ph.D., has been awarded the Neuron Research Grant 2013 from the Neuron Foundation for Support of Science and Research.

The Neuron Prize 2013 awarded to Professor Vojtěch Rödl

The Neuron Foundation for Support of Science and Research awarded the Neuron Prize 2013 for the Longlife Work to Prof. RNDr. Vojtěch Rödl, CSc., the renown Czech specialist in combinatorics and graph theory working at the Emory University in Atlanta.

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon new president of the European Research Council

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, the 2nd president of the European Mathematical Society (1995-98), will be the next president of the European Research Council (ERC). Since 2007, the ERC has funded European top researchers through grants given on the base of applications that are evaluated by expert panels. In Horizon 2020, the ERC appears as a crucial component in the EU long-term research strategy to support the most talented and creative scientists in blue-sky research.

The Abel Prize Laureate 2013: Pierre Deligne

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2013 to Pierre Deligne, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, “for seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact
on number theory, representation theory, and related fields”.

Josef Hlávka Honorary Medal for Professor Miroslav Fiedler

Every year, the prominent foundation "Nadání Josefa, Marie a Zdeňky Hlávkových" is awarding Honorary Medals to nestors and founding personalities of the Czech science and art for their lifelong work. Among those who have been awarded the Medal on 16 November 2013, the eve of the National Day of Struggle for Freedom and Democracy, was Professor Miroslav Fiedler.

Dny otevřených dveří v Matematickém ústavu AV ČR - Open Houses in the Institute of Mathematics AS CR

Tradičních Dnů otevřených dveří v Matematickém ústavu AV ČR, které jsou součástí Týdne vědy a techniky Akademe věd ČR, nejrozsáhlejšího vědeckého festivalu v České republice pořádaného Akademií věd ČR ve spolupráci s dalšími institucemi, se ve dnech 5., 7. a 8. listopadu 2013 zúčastnilo více než 600 návstěvníků. V celkem 24 přednáškách a interaktivních seminářích se dozvěděli o zajímavostech ze světa matematiky a jejího uplatnění v nejrůznějších oborech lidské činnosti.

Traditional Open Houses in the Institute of Mathematics AS CR held on 5th, 7th and 8th November 2013 in frames of the Week of Science and Technology, the most extensive scientific festival in the Czech Republic, organized by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in cooperation with other institutions, were attended by more than 600 visitors. In total of 24 lectures and interactive workshops, they learned about news from the world of mathematics and about apllications of mathematics in various fields of human activity.

Zpráva

Program

Přednášky, fotografie, videa

Michal Křížek awarded for his popularization activities

On the occasion of the World Development Information Day, 24 October, President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Prof. Jiří Drahoš awarded the Prize for promotion and popularization of research, experimental development and innovations to prof. RNDr. Michal Křížek, DrSc. for his long-standing systematic popularization of mathematics and related fields.
See the list of his publications.

On Křížek's activities in popularization of mathematics

The 10th Eduard Čech Lecture: Wolfgang L. Wendland, University of Stuttgart

Title: On Riesz minimal energy problems on C^k^–¹^,¹-manifolds

Friday, 13 December 2013 at 10 a.m., in the main lecture hall of the Institute of Mathematics

For abstract see the flyer below. The distinguished 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.

Flyer

Vyhlášení veřejného výběrového řízení na obsazení funkce ředitele Matematického ústavu AV ČR, v. v. i.

Rada Matematického ústavu Akademie věd České republiky, veřejné výzkumné instituce, vyhlašuje v souladu s § 18 odst. 2 písm. h zákona č. 341/2005 Sb. veřejné výběrové řízení na obsazení funkce ředitele pracoviště.

Předpokládaný nástup do funkce: 1. května 2014
Uzávěrka přihlášek 31. ledna 2014
Podrobný text vyhlášení:

ERC Advanced Grant for Pavel Pudlák

Pavel Pudlák has been awarded ERC Advanced Grant "FEALORA – Feasibility, logic and randomness in computational complexity" for 2014–2018. Another great success: the second ERC Advanced Grant in the Institute of Mathematics and – as in the previous year – the only one awarded to the Czech researcher in 2013. Research of Pudlák's team is motivated by the major unsolved problem in computer science called "P versus NP". They are looking for connections between the computational complexity and the proof complexity which represent two different views of the general phenomenon of complexity.
A call for a post-doc position and for a Ph.D. student position within the FEALORA grant has been opened.

Description of the project

Academy of Sciences – Press release

Postdoctoral position

Pending final approval by the European Research Council a one year post-doc position is available within the framework of the ERC Advanced Grant Feasibility, logic and randomness in computational complexity under the direction of Professor Pavel Pudlák. See description of the project.

Starting date: 01/01/2014

Opening of Applications: 04/09/2013

Deadline for Applications: 15/11/2013

For the details see

Ph.D. student position

Pending final approval by the European Research Council up to 4 years Ph.D. student position is available within the framework of the ERC Advanced Grant Feasibility, logic and randomness in computational complexity under the direction of Professor Pavel Pudlák. See description of the project.

Starting date: 01/01/2014

Opening of Applications: 04/09/2013

Deadline for Applications: 15/11/2013

For the details see

Otto Wichterle Premium for young researchers awarded to Jakub Šístek

Ing. Jakub Šístek, PhD., received from the President of the Academy of Sciences Prof. Jiří Drahoš the Otto Wichterle Premium for young researchers. The award connected with a financial premium of 90 000 crowns in the three subsequent years has been established in 2002 to encourage and support young promising researchers in institutes of the Academy of Sciences. Jakub Šístek is one of 23 young researches awarded the Premium this year.

ERC Advanced Grant for Eduard Feireisl

Eduard Feireisl's ERC Advanced Grant proposal "MATHEF – Mathematical Thermodynamics of Fluids" has been selected for funding in the period 2013–2018. A great success of the Czech mathematics as this is the first ERC Advanced Grant for mathematics in the Czech Republic and the only one assigned to a Czech scientist this year! Eduard Feireisl was the chair of the Scientific Committee of the 6th European Congress of Mathematics in Kraków, 2012, and is also the chair of the Scientific Committee of Equadiff 13 in Praha, 2013. The call for a PhD. student to work in the grant has been closed.

Eduard Feireisl's home page

Academy of Sciences - Press release

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